Guyana News

A woman, who said she married a man who knew he was HIV positive but kept it a secret, wants to wage a one-woman war on persons who knowingly infect others with the virus.

As the operations at the newly opened ferry stelling at Good Hope, Essequibo Coast get under way, truckers who utilize the services of the Transport and Harbours Depart-ment ((T&HD) have expressed frustration over the weight restriction of 16 tonnes instituted at the port.

Domestic violence survivors in Berbice are finding temporary refuge at the White Zone which was set up last year on the Corentyne, but coordinators in the region are pointing to a need for more full-time staff to advance the work.

Around one year after Liloutie ‘Pinky’ Seeram, 32, was brutally hacked to death at her Glasgow Housing Scheme, East Bank Berbice home the attacker is still on the run and relatives continue to plead for justice.

Norway’s forest saving partnership with Guyana will “most certainly” continue after 2015 but exactly how will be worked out at the appropriate time, the Scandinavian’s state Minister of the Environment and International Development Erik Solheim has said.

Well-known city businessman David Persaud passed away last night at the age of 75.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – At least 10 people have been killed and 83 wounded in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials said yesterday, on a second day of violent protests over the burning of a Koran by a radical fundamentalist Christian in the United States.

KABUL  (Reuters) – An angry mob that killed seven foreign UN staff in north Afghanistan ripped out the door of a bunker where several had taken shelter, and slit the throat of one man who survived a bullet, the top UN envoy in the country said yesterday.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Soldiers of Ivory Coast’s rival leaders battled for the presidential palace, military bases and state TV in the main city Abidjan yesterday, in a conflict becoming so brutal that it killed 800 people in one town alone.

EAST OF BREGA/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – A NATO-led air strike killed 13 Libyan rebels, a rebel spokesman said yesterday, but their leaders called for continued raids on Muammar Gaddafi’s forces despite the “regrettable incident.”

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama is likely to announce plans next week to run for re-election and file campaign papers with the Federal Election Commission as early as tomorrow, a

A burglar was shot dead by police in the early hours of yesterday after he was alleged to have rushed at an officer with an object in his hands.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni  struck a dramatic six to bring the World Cup to India on  Saturday after Sri Lanka had threatened to ruin their party.

Noting a call by PNCR presidential candidate, David Granger for a judicial enquiry into all aspects of the drug trade, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee this evening said it made no sense and called on Granger for probes of a host of other areas including the killing of Walter Rodney and the 1973 ballot box shootings.

City businessman Godfrey Scipio called ‘Saga’ was on Friday night robbed of jewellery and an undisclosed amount of cash by four gunmen who later engaged police in a shoot-out at Cummings Lodge.

Police have detained two seamen for questioning after their boat captain mysteriously disappeared from the vessel they were in early yesterday morning in the vicinity of the Unity, Mahaica foreshore.

New terms for Guyana’s forests’ deal with Norway have been agreed, with payments from Oslo to decrease should the deforestation level here increase over last year’s level.

Well-known city businessman David Persaud passed away last night at the age of 75.

President Bharrat Jagdeo launched the Educational Television Broadcasting Service (ETBS) yesterday, saying that it will serve to narrow the gaps in providing quality education across the country.

Sexual offence convictions remain considerably low in this country despite reformed laws and problems still persist in policing and prosecution, particularly with evidence gathering.