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A 22-year-old Cane Grove man was robbed and badly beaten by a group of men on Friday evening while he was returning home from a ‘lime.’

Electricity utility, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) company says that although it pays less for fuel at the moment, it has no surplus monies and its focus this year will be on fixing its equipment and not on lowering domestic power tariffs.

The Ministry of Public Health has received confirmation that a Guyanese patient who was hospitalised after displaying symptoms of swine flu has indeed been infected with the H1N1 virus which causes the disease.

Nearly three months after controversial salary increases for cabinet ministers were unveiled, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) is still to issue a formal statement on it.

The National Assembly on Wednesday approved two financial papers totalling $9.6 billion dollars spent during the last PPP/C administration.

Cramped in rickety wooden homes with no water, electricity or drainage, residents describe life in Plastic City, a depressed section of Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, as a real struggle.

Former President Donald Ramotar has accused the APNU+AFC government of harassment of former Minister of Finance Ashni Singh and charged that it is misusing the state apparatus to serve its narrow political ends.

The Guyana Police Force says that while it received a report of a car being trailed shortly after the car crash involving army intelligence officer Robert Pyle, they are investigating to ascertain if the two incidents are connected.

The suspect in the murder of a Mathews Ridge man was arrested by the police on Thursday and he told investigators that the act was the result of an old alternation.

A Brazilian miner is now dead after he was shot and robbed of a quantity of gold last Wednesday but the police have arrested the suspect who confessed to the crime.

RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shi’ite Muslim cleric and dozens of al Qaeda members yesterday, signalling that it would not tolerate attacks, whether by Sunni jihadists or minority Shi’ites, and stirring sectarian anger across the region.

DUBAI (Reuters) – Angry Iranian protesters stormed Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Tehran in the early hours today, smashing furniture and starting fires before being removed by the police.

PATHANKOT/NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) – Militants launched a deadly attack on an Indian Air Force base near the Pakistan border yesterday, exchanging fire with Indian forces who, backed by tanks and helicopters, battled for more than 15 hours before wresting back control of the compound.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A new appraisal names the United States as one of the threats to Russia’s national security for the first time, a sign of how relations with the west have deteriorated in recent years.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The newly installed mayor of the Mexican city of Temixco was killed yesterday, according to a tweet from Morelos state Governor Graco Ramirez.

Blogger, freelance writer, author and editor Anne Lyken-Garner, a Berbice-born Guyanese now living in Bristol in the UK tells a story, hers, of growing up poor and battered in her book Sunday’s Child.

(Reuters) – In the same week that comedian Bill Cosby was arrested on sexual assault charges, his wife, Camille Cosby, learned she must testify in a civil case against the entertainer filed by seven women who said he defamed them, court documents said.

Reminiscing on the moment they said “I do” to each other 30 years ago, a smiling Stephen David-Longe described his wife Hazel as “stunning” when he took his first glimpse of her on their wedding day; and with a chuckle she said softly that he looked “handsome” when she laid her eyes on him.

The Drop-in Centre in Hadfield Street and the Generation Next Training Centre, which is run by the First Assembly of God Church on D’Urban Street were beneficiaries of 24 and 15 Acer Computer Tablets respectively, compliments of Fox News Digital Education Department through US-based Guyanese Karl Moore.

Former President Donald Ramotar today defended former Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh over the controversial spending of $4.5b during Ramotar’s administration.