Guyana News

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – European farmers could lose  more than 3 billion euros in annual revenue by 2020 under any  free trade deal between the European Union and Latin America’s  Mercosur region, a study for the EU’s executive showed.

The People’s Progressive Party has extended deepest sympathy to the followers in Guyana and abroad of Sri Satya Sai Baba who passed away on Sunday,

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The U.S. envoy to the  United Nations told the Security Council today that  troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi were increasingly  engaging in sexual violence and some had been issued the  impotency drug Viagra, diplomats said.

BRIDGETOWN,  (Reuters) – Pakistan took an unassailable 3-0 lead in their five match  one-day international against West Indies after winning y three wickets at the Kensington Oval  today.

The Guyana Prison Service says that three prisoners were injured during separate incidents in the Male Block and Remands Dining Hall respectively, at the New Amsterdam Prison yesterday.

The police say they are investigating a shooting incident that occurred at about 2235h yesterday during which Kevin La Fleur, 24 years of Fyrish, Corentyne, was shot and injured at Chesney Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala., (Reuters) – Tornadoes and  violent storms ripped through seven southern U.S.

(Barbados Nation) Plenty of empty seats! That’s what may confront die-hard cricket lovers who have purchased tickets for today’s third Digicel One-Day International between West Indies and Pakistan at Kensington Oval.

Large shipments of alcohol and cigarettes believed smuggled from Guyana were seized in Nickerie, Suriname supermarkets over the weekend.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — Police Commissioner Krishna Hussainali-Mathoera of the Surinamese police Force cannot yet say whether they will be victorious in the fight against drug related crime but she is certain that they have hit them where it hurts this year.

(De Ware Tijd)  THE HAGUE — From 2007 till 2010, the Surinamese Embassy in Beijing has issued a visa to “only” 3,299 Chinese.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain has withdrawn the royal  wedding invitation to Syria, with the support of Buckingham  Palace, after a violent crackdown against pro-democracy  supporters, a Foreign Office spokesman said today.

Businessman and avid softball cricketer Bedi Ramjeiwan was brutally beaten and then fatally shot at the head of his street during a brazen morning attack shortly after conducting business at a city bank.

Political leadership has failed the business community presidential candidate Khemraj Ramjattan said yesterday, pledging that new policies under an AFC-led government will see an end to the suffocating of the entrepreneur class.

An argument between two miners ended tragically on Saturday when one man chopped the other to death at Moruka, North West District (NWD).

Former Police Corporal Diana Chichester yesterday appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court where charges of negligently permitting persons

Three persons who allegedly broke and entered the XU-QUIN store and stole more than $11.2M worth of goods were yesterday granted bail when they appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Like hundreds of overseas-based Guyanese, Egerton David planned his vacation to Guyana to coincide with Linden Town Week activities, to celebrate the town’s 42nd anniversary and to participate in a forum aimed at generating ideas to boost livelihoods.

Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officials have reneged on a promise they reportedly made to assist with transporting the body of Colombian businessman Jose Arturo Castillo Balcazar back to his home base, a relative said yesterday.

Some sections of Port Kaituma in Region One, including the community’s only hospital, have been without water for almost two weeks.