Guyana News

The residents who live in the First Bridge Street in the Grove New Housing Scheme are appealing to the authorities for their road to be fixed, since its deplorable state is making life in the community difficult.

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Gordon  Brown’s ruling Labour Party appears to have lost “the will to live” and must fight harder if it wants to win an election due  by next June, finance minister Alistair Darling said in a  newspaper interview today.

The final contract for the US$40M project for the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) to expand its transmission and distribution systems in Demerara and Berbice is expected to be negotiated in October, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GPL Bharrat Dindyal says.

SEOUL (Reuters) – Ninety-seven South Koreans  crossed a heavily armed border yesterday to meet family  members in the communist North in fleeting reunions arranged by  the rivals split by war and ideology more than half a century  ago.

-Baksh The Ministry of Education continues to ensure that teachers are adequately trained to deliver the curriculum at the various levels and to this end has been promoting the use of learning resources, Education Minister Shaik Baksh says.

PITTSBURGH (Reuters) – The G20 may face a “mission  accomplished” moment akin to former President George W.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil may not have invited  ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya to take refuge in its  embassy there, but opening its door to him is a high-risk bet  that could harm its regional leadership ambitions.

Anjenie Modan, the 44-year old woman who was severely chopped on her head, both hands and other parts of her body by her husband after she told him they should separate was yesterday discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital.

– church damaged, fire service arrived after one hourBy Adrian Smith Fire of unknown origin gutted a two-storey building in Rose Hall yesterday morning destroying a home and three businesses and leaving a family of five homeless.

Several illegal Guyanese were booted out of neighbouring Suriname in the last few days, while at least four, including a preacher, were detained for offences ranging from drug trafficking to violation of the country’s Foreign Currency Act, a Caribbean Net News report said.

Proprietor of the White Castle Fish Shop Jermaine Langevine and an employee Mark Goodridge, were yesterday jointly charged with Tuesday night’s shooting outside the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

Accused granted bail after skipping country Days after he was deported for entering the US with a forged visa, one of the accused in $70 million Valentine’s Day liquor bust was yesterday granted $800,000 bail by Chief Justice(ag) Ian Chang despite objections from the prosecution who pointed out the man had skipped the country.

The new Vendors Mall on Water Street is set to officially open next week and organizers have promised a “bang” as the long-in-the-making facility prepares to offer more choices for the upcoming Christmas season and beyond.

Two teenagers who were among the victims of Tuesday’s shooting outside the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue had bullets removed from their bodies yesterday and are now recovering in the surgical ward of the Georgetown Hospital.

Two men who allegedly pretended to be power company employees and demanded the sum of $60,000 from a woman in order that electrical meters would not be removed from her premises were yesterday placed before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer the charge of demanding money with menace.

The government’s efforts to counteract the effects of climate change were given a boost yesterday when two technical cooperation agreements valued at US$1,450,000 were signed between the Finance Ministry and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Neville Nixon and his family were left homeless last night after a fire of unknown origin ravaged their two-bedroom wooden home at Bagotstown.

Quick response by residents averted what could have been a major catastrophe at Wismar yesterday afternoon.

Three remand prisoners implicated in an alleged escape plot at the New Amsterdam Prison on November 15, 2008 were yesterday further remanded to prison by Magistrate Chandra Sohan in the New Amsterdam Court.

– relatives say police not pursuing suspect Relatives of Anjanie Mohan, the 44-year old woman whose husband severely chopped her about her body during a misunderstanding, are furious over what they have termed “sloppy work” by the police in their bid to have the perpetrator arrested.