Guyana News

Police late Tuesday released those persons held following the Monday night Windsor Forest melee during which three villagers were shot and they have charged no one as yet.

A number of measures are to be implemented to discourage the presence of birds in the Timehri/Soesdyke areas, following Tuesday’s bird strike at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) which affected an outgoing Caribbean Airlines flight.

PPP Presidential Candidate Donald Ramotar says he will not consider parliamentary representation for the Diaspora “No.

When AFC presidential candidate Khemraj Ramjattan told residents of Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice to stop fearing African Guyanese, he did not intend to incite racial hostility but was rather urging the gathering to pursue racial harmony, the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has ruled.

Despite seeing its overall export sales decline by $35.4 million (16%), Sterling Productions Inc recorded an after-tax profit of $94.4 million in 2010, a decrease of 2 per cent from the $96.4 million recorded in 2009.

While assistance continued to trickle in, the victims of the Easter Monday fire have set up a makeshift shelter at the front of the burnt out Barrack Street, Kingston building that they once called their home.

Former swimming champion Onan Orlando Thom was arraigned on charges of armed robbery, abduction and the use of threatening behaviour, when he appeared on Tuesday before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – The United States took steps  to throw a financial lifeline to rebels controlling eastern  Libya while forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi focused their  firepower on pockets of resistance in the west.  

Canada-based Guyana Goldfields Inc has agreed to sell two of its mining properties here as well as its interest in another property for over US$6M as it focuses on its flagship Aurora Gold Project.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Orlando Bosch, a militant  anti-communist Cuban exile who spent 11 years in jail in  Venezuela for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner but was  later acquitted, died in Miami yesterday.

LONDON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Loyal PlayStation  gamers are threatening to ditch Sony Corp after it disclosed  that personal information for some 77 million user accounts was  stolen from its computer systems in one of the biggest-ever  data breaches.  

During 2010, the Hand-in-Hand Mutual Life Assurance Company Ltd recorded a net increase in funds of $45,654,953, more than 12 times the $3,595,052 recorded the previous year.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama  will today name CIA Director Leon Panetta to become U.S. 

Two of three persons were each sentenced to three years imprisonment on Tuesday by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton who found them guilty of trafficking 102 grammes of cannabis.

Social activist Mark Benschop and columnist Freddie Kissoon on Tuesday cross-examined another witness who took the stand to give evidence in the obstruction case against them.

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – More than 200 members of Syria’s  ruling Baath Party quit yesterday over President Bashar  al-Assad’s violent repression of pro-democracy protests, the  first public sign of serious dissent within the governing ranks.  

Taxi diver Ramesh Pattiram was last evening rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital after being struck down by a speeding car at the Coldingen turn, on the East Coast Demerara.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Is Pope John Paul II  approaching his halo too fast? 

The man who was struck down at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice around 10:30 am on Easter Monday succumbed to his injuries and was identified the following day as Sukhnandan Ragunandan, 25.

CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – Weight loss surgery appears  to change the body’s metabolism in a way that dieting alone  cannot, helping to explain why diabetes often disappears after  the surgery even before much weight is lost, U.S.