Guyana News

The life of a 50-year old East Bank Demerara (EBD) truck driver was snuffed out in an accident at the Houston EBD bypass yesterday afternoon.

Health Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has disclosed that a decision has been taken for the historic New Amsterdam Hospital building to be demolished.

– relatives not confident cops will probe carefully How did Jamal ‘Radio’ Beete end up in the George Street house dead and why?

CARICOM’s Ministerial Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) is supporting a proposal for Haiti to have non-reciprocal access to regional markets for some goods for a three-year period.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers hammered out  a historic overhaul of financial regulations yesterday, handing  President Barack Obama a major domestic policy victory on the  eve of a global summit of world leaders.    

DAMASCUS, (Reuters) – President Bashar al-Assad will  make a rare visit to Latin America aimed at extending Syria’s  diplomatic reach after emerging from Western isolation, and  attracting investment for his country’s ageing infrastructure.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – The first tropical depression of  the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season neared storm strength in the  western Caribbean yesterday as it took aim at Mexico’s Yucatan  Peninsula, the U.S.

KIGALI, (Reuters) – A journalist working for a  suspended Rwandan newspaper was shot dead by an unknown gunman,  police said yesterday.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz  Inacio Lula da Silva will skip the Group of 20 leaders summit  in Toronto this weekend to deal with the aftermath of severe  flooding in northeastern Brazil that has killed 51 people.

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, (Reuters) – Potential Egyptian  presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei led thousands of people  yesterday in an anti-torture protest that analysts said was  significant for joining disparate groups in a common cause.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Africa’s strong growth  will continue at a rapid pace and investors and business can not  afford to ignore the continent’s potential which goes far beyond  commodities, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study.

OTAVALO, Ecuador,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President  Hugo Chavez yesterday said Colombia’s next president, Juan  Manuel Santos, should end U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Alleged drug kingpin  Christopher “Dudus” Coke was extradited to the United States yesterday to face narcotics trafficking charges, after waiving  his right to a trial in Jamaica.

-family believes he was murdered The body of a 47-year-old man of Grant 1805 Crabwood Creek was discovered yesterday morning across a drain with a gaping wound to his head and a steel rod stuck in his groin and protruding through his back.

Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo yesterday remanded to prison two drivers who appeared before her charged with causing the deaths of two men in last Saturday’s two-car crash at Canje, Berbice.

A deaf-mute carpenter yesterday appeared in court charged with the murder of minibus conductor Godfrey Hoyte at the Stabroek Market Square.

The two sniffer dogs used at the Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport, Timehri may have outlived their usefulness as they failed a routine test carried out by police yesterday Stabroek News has been reliably informed.

It is appalling, relatives say, that despite having access to his reputed wife police have been unable to properly identify the dredge owner shot dead in an ambush at Mousie Landing just after midnight on Monday.

Dilip Lambert will face trial again for the murder of his wife at the next assizes after a hung jury returned to the courtroom of Justice Roxane George following several hours of deliberations yesterday, unable to reach a unanimous or near unanimous verdict.

A businessman was shot early yesterday morning as he stood outside his Fourth Street, La Penitence home chatting with friends.