Guyana News

A 27-year-man is in an unconscious state at a private city hospital after he was shot and badly beaten during a scuffle with another man.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica joins the rest of the world in marking today as the International Day for Monuments and Sites.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – In the coming years, the government wants to increase Suriname’s productive rice fields systematically to 150,000 hectares in 2020.

(De Ware Tijd) THE HAGUE – Suriname has lost part of its history with the dearth of former Ambassador Max Vegelin van Claerbergen (84), says Dutch Parliamentarian Harry van Bommel.

KABUL, (Reuters) – An insurgent killed two people  in the Afghan Defence Ministry today in the third attack on  security installations in four days, with the violence likely to  raise questions about military transition plans due to start  this year.

The Board of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guy-suco) cannot be blamed for the state-owned company’s woes say PPP Presidential Candidate, Donald Ramotar – a longtime board member.

Charges are expected against the two men, who were held following a 25-kilo cocaine bust in Berbice three days ago,  a senior Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) source told Stabroek News yesterday.

Barbadian Health Minister Donville Inniss on Saturday acknowledged that his ministry’s active enforcement of a policy which restricts a non-national’s access to free medical attention at public health institutions will impact those with unregularized residency status.

The lifeless body of a 33-year old man was yesterday discovered along the Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road, a short distance from a temple where he was residing.

A 36-year-old woman is now hospitalized after she was burnt on Monday last at her Canal #2, West Demerara home.

The family of murdered miner Andy Whyte is dissatisfied with the way police have handled the investigation, while saying the only suspect in the case was released without proper questioning.

Residents of Craig on the East Bank of Demerara (EBD) have reservations as regards river revetment in the area which is nearing completion while the authorities express satisfaction at the work being undertaken.

Commercial call centre Qualfon is confident that with improvements in the local telecommunications sector it will be able to expand operations and strengthen partnerships with the relevant stakeholders.

A body of a 46-year-old Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara man was discovered slumped over a log near a koker on Friday morning.

Two men were arrested for questioning into the January murder of Goedverwagting watch vendor Paul Samaroo just over a month ago but their subsequent release has left relatives fearful that the perpetrators will never be caught.

The Essequibo Coast businessman who was shot during a robbery on Regent Street on Thursday has been discharged from hospital but a bullet is still lodged in his body.

The preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder of 29-year-old Lusignan resident Bridgette Gangadeen was adjourned on Friday without an explanation.

A single-mother with six school-aged children and earning less than $50,000 a month, Mortlyn Benjamin and her family may be ideal candidates to benefit from the government’s One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) initiative.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syrian security forces opened  fire on protesters at a funeral yesterday, witnesses said, and  an announcement that President Bashar al-Assad would lift  48-years of emergency rule failed to quell fury on the streets.

“I want to go home, but I have no home, nowhere to go,” a tearful Bibi Ahbeda Alli said from her bed at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), where she has been for four months.