Guyana News

The Ministry of Education has come under fire in the 2007 Auditor General ‘s Report for its “deficiencies in the preparation of contract documents” which the report says allows contractors to get away with doing substandard work.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama  scored a major victory yesterday when the U.S.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – World leaders face pressure to  find a new policy for dealing with Iran following its disputed  presidential election and crackdown on protesters, but are  unlikely to tighten sanctions any time soon.

– PM inconclusive because of decomposition `Is just mommy I had and now she gone…’ A post-mortem examination performed on the body of Shira Khan, which was found in a trench a short distance from her Unity, Mahaica home, was inconclusive because of the advanced decomposition of the body.

(Antigua Sun) – Shondelle Natasha Beaton Licorish has pleaded guilty to remaining in Antigua and Barbuda after the expiration of a permit granted by the Immigration Department.

A 37-year-old father of one, who admitted stealing a quantity of scrap iron valued over $2.4M from a woman’s storage house, was remanded to prison on Thursday when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Zamani Khan, a 20-year-old carpenter of Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara, was on Thursday remanded to prison shortly after he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson for allegedly wounding a man and hijacking his car.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is likely to run for the presidency again in 2014 if an opposition candidate wins next year’s election, he said in an interview published yesterday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Michael Jackson, the child  star turned King of Pop who set the world dancing but whose  musical genius was overshadowed by a bizarre lifestyle and sex  scandals, died yesterday.

Gunmen rode up on scooter, bike Two Castello Housing Scheme residents are now hospitalized following two shooting incidents that occurred in the city last night.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Texas financier Allen Stanford  will spend another night in a Texas jail after he pleaded not  guilty yesterday to 21 criminal charges that he ran a $7  billion Ponzi scheme.

The badly decomposed body of a 10-year-old boy suspected to have been murdered was brought to the city yesterday.

Some concession holders operating along the UNAMCO trail, who saw a strange Hummer in the area, believe their fellow miner Thakoor Persaud who was ambushed and gunned down on Tuesday along the trail was targeted.

Anti-drug officials yesterday found over two kilos of cocaine in a package that was destined for Canada at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.

Close to 30 Guyanese residing in Trinidad illegally were on Wednesday rounded-up and have been given deadlines by which they must leave that country.

President Bharrat Jagdeo and Cabinet members will today partake in a “pork buffet” at the New Thriving Restaurant even as the Ministry of Agriculture assures the public that the country’s pig industry is free from swine flu.

The Health Ministry has come under the microscope again for drug purchases made in breach of procurement laws, according to the 2007 Auditor General’s Report, which has also revealed that some supplies sourced from the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Company Inc.

A 40-year-old man of Bath Experiment, West Berbice died when the tractor he was driving turned over and pinned him in the rice field aback of Hopetown Village around 9:45 am yesterday.

Well-known former radio broadcaster Pat Cameron better known as ‘Aunty Pat’ is gravely ill in a US hospital.

Persaud urges review of ‘lost’ 6m euros Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud met with a team from the European Commission (EC) yesterday to review the country’s sugar action plan and pressed for the EC to reconsider its position on denying Guyana $6 million euros in resources.