Guyana News

The AFC on Wednesday announced that preparatory work has started for its 2nd Biennial Conference, to be held in July.

-says she suffered constant abuseA woman who admitted that she stabbed her partner in his chest was yesterday remanded to prison when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.|

Christopher McLean, 17, of Bel Air and Richard Philadelphia, 20, of Newtown, Kitty, were shot and injured on Norton Street on Wednesday night.

The six suspects who have been held in connection with the mysterious abduction and murder of Corentyne businessman, Fazal Hoosein, 44, of Number 69 Village were released on $150,000 station bail each on Wednesday.

-attempt had been made to set her alight Being stabbed repeatedly and beaten by a man with whom she recently ended a relationship has left Sharmin McKay in severe pain at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – Aaron Redmond scored 63 from 30 balls to earn the Man-of-the-Match award, and set New Zealand up for a commanding 83-run victory over Ireland as the Super Eight stage of the ICC World Twenty20 Championship opened yesterday.

A 16-year-old boy died late Wednesday at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), where he was rushed after the tray of his father’s truck fell on him at Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – CIA Director Leon Panetta  said yesterday the U.S.

Former Speaker of the National Assembly Winslow Martin Zephyr has died.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Chopping down forests in  the Brazilian Amazon produces a boom-and-bust economy that  draws poor people to newly-cleared land but ultimately leaves  them no better off, researchers reported yesterday.

Former employees of the Premium Security Services on Wednesday protested outside CLICO (Guyana’s) Camp Street headquarters over non-payments of benefits owed to them, following termination of their service earlier this year.

ATLANTA, (Reuters) – Bermuda’s decision to grant  asylum to four Chinese detainees from Guantanamo Bay sparked a  political and diplomatic furor yesterday on the wealthy  Atlantic island.

The teachers of East La Penitence Primary School have downed tools after a parent verbally abused two teachers as well as the headmistress and although the parent has apologized, the teachers want his children transferred from the school.

By Cathy Richards Parents of Wismar Hill Primary School students are incensed over an overflowing septic tank in the school compound, which they worry poses a health hazard to their children.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – North Korea is unlikely to  respond militarily to planned U.N.

Lusignan residents are to have a better water supply in another three months as a contract has been signed for a new well to be dug in the area, replacing the current one which will outlive its usefulness in less than four months.

-Limers beaten, robbed in chilling attack Bandits early yesterday morning shot a man in the neck; beat, terrorised and robbed eight others at a small grocery and barbershop on Mandela Avenue before escaping in a waiting car, having also grabbed two five-pound tins of Fern Leaf milk powder.

-recovers two hijacked vessels The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guard, after recovering two hijacked Guyanese fishing vessels, yesterday exchanged gunfire with a speedboat which retreated in the direction of Venezuela.

The Organisation of American States (OAS) approved its second resolution on “Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity” at its 39th General Assembly held in San Pedro Sula, Honduras  from June 1–3.

– bought knives on Saturday The Vreed-en-Hoop man, who slashed his former reputed wife to death on Tuesday before turning the knife on himself and ingesting a poisonous substance, died early yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) and reports are that he carefully planned the event.