Guyana News

As you read this the World’s third largest sporting event and spectacular – CRICKET WORLD CUP 2007, will be playing one of its most important legs in good old Guyana.

The Caribbean Community says it has installed a Regional Communications Centre (RCC) as a specialist unit within the Caricom Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS) to manage crisis communications during the Cricket World Cup (CWC).

The Sidewalk Caf

If motorists obey the signals of the traffic lights at the Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara junction, traffic there would not move.

CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington has expressed “a sense of profound loss and deep personal sadness” over the passing of Lloyd Algernon Best, whom he described as “one of the Caribbean’s greatest sons.”

Police are probing the robbery and assault of a family of four outside the Sheriff Night Club early Monday morning that left one man nursing a stab wound to his ear and two women traumatised.

Three people who were taken into custody following the suspicious death of a two-month-old baby at Number 72 Village during last week were released following an exhumation yesterday and a post-mortem examination, which proved “inconclusive.”

The PNCR says high unemployment remains a major problem in Linden and some townspeople are also worried about corrupt policemen.

The first of the ICC Super Eight matches to be played in Guyana begins today however Guyanese seem to be purchasing more tickets for Sunday’s mouth-watering clash between West Indies and Sri Lanka.

City hotels still have rooms available but expectations are high that more bookings will come with the first world cup cricket match set to begin today.

The police have issued a wanted bulletin for the 17-year-old boy who shot his 14-year-old lover last Friday night at Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara.

Bill is back in town. In stereo! As soon as I get on the Carib-bwee plane, the stories start coming * A big hello to Minister Rohee who was on the flight.

“It has been great so far,” was the response from Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene at a press conference held at the Providence stadium yesterday.

“The stadium looks pretty good, we just have to see how the pitch behaves.”

A mouth-watering clash between two teams which have dominated world cricket in different eras takes place today at the Sir Vivian Richards stadium in Antigua.

Once upon a time, before the Cold War had ended, Professor Bernard Lewis of Princeton attended an academic conference in Rome at which a group of historians tried to settle the question of whether historians should try to predict the future.

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday refused bail to an East Bank business contractor accused of having carnal knowledge of a teenaged girl on two separate occasions at Timehri.

Dear Editor, Following the publication of my letter captioned “My cell phone only worked for one day (07.03.18) in which I complained about the problems I encountered with the management of Digicel, I met the company’s Sales Director Mr.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to comment on the inappropiate designation given to a member of staff of the Balwant Singh’s Hospital by John “Slingshot” Drepaul in his letter captioned “I send thanks to the many Guyanese who helped me recover after my unfortunate injury during Mash” (07.03.23).

Dear Editor, As someone with an interest in Guyanese affairs, I usually have to perambulate for the truth among the Guyana Chronicle, Kaieteur News and Stabroek News.