Guyana News

Residents of the Diamond Housing Scheme now have potable water running to their homes following the commissioning of a well in the community yesterday.

More job losses and a drop in remittances hit Linden this year but the business community remains upbeat about prospects for holiday shopping.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil has announced its first  projects from a new foreign-financed fund to help protect the  Amazon forest and fight climate change, days before developing  nations seek more aid at a U.N.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – At least 94 people were killed and  139 injured yesterday when a blast caused by fireworks ripped  through a packed Russian nightclub, causing a stampede, the  Emergencies Ministry said.

-pledge support for developing nations The heads of the leading international financial institutions on Wednesday called for a comprehensive agreement to combat climate change at the upcoming Copenhagen conference and agreed to further coordinate their own efforts to help achieve the meeting’s ambitious goals.

PERUGIA, Italy, (Reuters) – An Italian court convicted  American student Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend  Raffaele Sollecito early today of murdering British  student Meredith Kercher in a drunken sex game.

A message from the  International  Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in celebration of International Volunteer Day, today, urges that special tribute be paid to those volunteers  who have been injured  or lost their lives in the past year in the service of humanity.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited has announced three new management appointments with Randulph Sears as Officer-in-Charge of the Linden Branch, Mrs.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. employers cut far fewer  jobs than expected last month in the best showing for the  labor market since the recession began, lifting the  beleaguered U.S.

The latest edition of ‘Guyana – Where and What,’ a mini-tourist guide, was launched yesterday.

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Two suicide bombers  blew themselves up in a mosque and two other militants fired on  worshipers near Pakistan’s military headquarters after Friday  prayers, killing at least 40 people, including army officials.

A Bartica resident pleaded not guilty on Thursday to possession of narcotics when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama  has delayed his trip to Copenhagen and will now attend the end  of the U.N.

High-flying New York lawyer Robert Simels was today sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for attempting to tamper with a witness in the Roger Khan drug case.

…sentenced in New York to time served Ex-soldier David Clarke who was set to be a key witness against Roger Khan is now a free man in the United States.

A bill for assistance from other countries in crime matters will enable the government to seek information on the drug cases against Roger Khan, David Clarke and others, PNCR-1G MP Debra Backer asserted yesterday.

Police at Linden have detained a man suspected to have been involved in an early morning hit and run accident at Kairuni, along the Linden-Soesdyke Highway which left 32-year-old Earl Abrams dead.

With a sugar vessel delayed and ongoing cash flow problems GuySuCo announced last night that its ability to pay wages for the current week has been “affected”, but said efforts are being made to find alternative arrangements.

–after several told to report for duty by Rusal Workers of the Aroaima-based Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) took their protest action to Linden yesterday after a number of workers were told that they were to report for work today.

The government has begun the formal proceedings to postpone local government elections until next year.