Guyana News

Five persons died and seven others were seriously injured, when a minibus travelling to Berbice smashed into the rear of a sand truck at Mahaica last night.

– union baulks at transfer of health, community services to state With productivity pegged at a dismal 235,000 tonnes this year, the sugar industry’s turnaround plan envisages stepped up mechanization, transforming Enmore estate into an important hub, ending grinding at LBI, an ethanol plant and transferring health and community services to the state.

A man endured a harrowing experience late Friday night when he was locked in the truck of his car by carjackers, who later abandoned the vehicle near the Ogle sea wall after they stripped it of all valuables.

The file on the Essequibo boat collision that left 10-year-old Ricky Jainarine missing is with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

– but fight far from over In just under a decade, the reality of HIV has changed somewhat, but the fight is far from over.

Chaos broke out in a section of Wellington Street yesterday after a fuming Chinese national who operates a store accused two women of shoplifting, kicking one and tearing the top of another and receiving     a few slaps to her face.

In its second statement in a month on the issue of a third term for President Bharrat Jagdeo, the PPP said yesterday that mischievous elements are acting up, and the party again distanced itself from the third term campaign.

– UWI VC tells law symposium Professor Nigel Harris, Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, told a high-level law symposium in Trinidad and Tobago recently that steps to promote a sense of regionalism and a wish for integration will not succeed without participants seeing the profound value in becoming one entity.

After completing successful kidney transplant operations, patients and their donors are making significant progress on the road to recovery while transmitting messages of hope to others who have been diagnosed with kidney ailments and are awaiting surgeries.

Just about a month after his business was destroyed in the second of the two recent Regent Street fires, proprietor of Wireless Connections Maxwell Thom has started rebuilding and is hoping to have his store up and running by the end of this month.

A 24-year-old labourer is nursing a gunshot wound to the head after he was shot by his foreman yesterday.

New amendments have been proposed to reform prison laws and increase penalties for prison offences.

The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development has inked a $24.5M contract for the construction of the Diamond market tarmac.

The Coastguard said its ability to help protect fishermen from pirate attacks is severely hampered by lack of communication and the acquisition of a vessel tracking system would boost its response to piracy calls.

An intruder in a Republic Park home was shot in the leg by the police yesterday as he was being chased.

An elderly security guard was found murdered in the Soesdyke NDC compound early yesterday morning.

Fire fighters yesterday battled a fire at the Mandela Avenue dumpsite, which broke out two days ago even as a heavy cloud of smoke shrouded the area choking residents.

The General Register Office (GRO) is working to improve the registration of births in indigenous communities.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A broad healthcare overhaul  was poised to clear its first US Senate hurdle yesterday as  the last wavering senators said they would vote to begin debate  on the legislation, giving Democrats the 60 votes they need.

CUCUTA, Colombia (Reuters) – Colombian President  Alvaro Uribe yesterday ruled out any military retaliation  against Venezuela after Venezuelan troops dynamited two  cross-border footbridges.