Guyana News

Demerara Harbour Bridge commuters got an early morning shock and were left in a traffic jam on Friday when a minibus heading to Georgetown burst into flames.

CARICOM, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the Government of Barbados on Thursday signed an amendment to the CIDA-funded Contribution Agreement for the CARICOM Trade and Competitiveness Programme.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro  lauded the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to U.S.

By Gaulbert Sutherland A massive fire raced through a section of Regent Street yesterday afternoon destroying four buildings and obliterating millions in stock, as fire-fighters braved the inferno with limited resources.

By Mark McGowan and Sara Bharrat Dozens of people are now homeless or without jobs following the blaze that ripped through Regent Street yesterday afternoon.

-argued over bucket of water By Zoisa Fraser An argument over a bucket of water ended in tragedy yesterday for a Beterverwagting family when a mentally ill man stabbed his 57-year-old father to death shortly after pelting him with bricks.

 Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett and her Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro Moros made a joint recommendation yesterday for the appointment of a new personal representative to help advance the search for a solution in the border controversy between the two South American neighbours.

The Administrator of the Palms Home for the elderly, Mohamed Fazloor Yasin, yesterday shot himself in the head at his house after lapsing into a state of depression over an illness he has been struggling with for the past 25 years.

A nurse and a doctor who once shared a relationship yesterday took each other to court over matters of unlawful wounding and malicious damage to property.

A minibus driver who pleaded guilty to unlawfully having a quantity of ammunition in his possession was yesterday ordered to pay a fine of $50,000 and sentenced to two years in prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The National Gallery at Castellani House says Christopher Nolan’s mystery thriller Memento is its pick for this week’s ‘Classic Tuesdays’ movie.

John Lewis Styles is celebrating its sixth anniversary today by donating $500,000 to five charities.

WASHINGTON/OSLO, (Reuters) – Barack Obama won the  Nobel Peace Prize yesterday in a stunning decision that honoured  the first-year U.S.

The lone bridge which links Mackenzie to Wismar over the Demerara River is currently undergoing extensive rehabilitation with over $154 million being expended by the government.

Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo ordered a probation report on Gopaul True and remanded him to prison after he admitted the charge of  threatening behaviour towards  his wife Maurine.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., (Reuters) – Two U.S.  spacecraft were crashed into a lunar crater yesterday but  scientists said it was too early to say whether the mission to  search for supplies of water on the Moon had been a success.  

KABUL, (Reuters) – India’s top diplomat inspected the  site of a huge bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul yesterday but declined to assign blame for a strike that has  renewed focus on India’s tense relations with Pakistan.  

Abdool  Ishack, 39, of 135 Cumberland Village, East  Canje,  who  inflicted several cuffs on his wife because she had  rebuked him for molesting a young woman, was fined $70,000 at the New Amsterdam Court yesterday with an alternative of ten months imprisonment.

By Oluatoyin Alleyne in New York Confessed drug dealer Peter Morgan will now know his fate at the end of next month following the postponement of his sentencing which was originally set for yesterday in New York.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Eleven U.N. peacekeepers  died yesterday when their surveillance plane crashed into a  mountainside in Haiti during a routine patrol, U.N.