Last Updated on Saturday, 25 October 2014, 13:12 by GxMedia The Officer-in-Charge of the Lethem Police Station was early Saturday morning shot and injured during a brawl at a disco in the southern Guyanese township near the border with Brazil, police confirmed. Assistant Superintendent Deo Rooplall was shot to one of his legs and was rushed to the Lethem Hospital. ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 25 October 2014, 1:51 by GxMedia Guyanese health authorities are monitoring a sick woman for Ebola after she was referred to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) because she told a private doctor that she had recently returned from a West African country that is not affected by the deadly virus. Sources said the Guyanese woman ...

Last Updated on Friday, 24 October 2014, 21:29 by GxMedia Guyana’s President Donald Ramotar was Friday afternoon meeting with stakeholders in the hope of arriving at a broad-based national consensus on warding off  and tackling the Ebola Virus should it arrive. The talks came just hours after the main opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) had flayed government for ...

Last Updated on Friday, 24 October 2014, 21:23 by GxMedia The decision by the global Financial Action Task Force (FATF), not to blacklist Guyana for failing to amend its financial crimes law has pulled one of the reasons that President Donald Ramotar might have used to call early general elections. The opposition has blocked the passage of amendments to the ...

Last Updated on Friday, 24 October 2014, 21:20 by GxMedia San Juan, Oct 24 (EFE).- A 14-month-old boy tested positive for marijuana in a toxicology exam Friday at a San Juan hospital where was admitted after his parents became concerned that he was sleeping too much. The child “is in stable condition,” but remains under observation, Puerto Rico Police Department ...

Last Updated on Friday, 24 October 2014, 21:18 by GxMedia Sao Paulo, Oct 24 (EFE).- Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petrobras on Friday announced a new natural gas and condensate find in deep waters off the coast of the southeastern state of Espirito Santo. Petrobras made the discovery in the Golfinho block after drilling a well in a part of the ...

Last Updated on Friday, 24 October 2014, 21:17 by GxMedia San Juan, Oct 23 (EFE).- Adolescent girls in theBahamasare usually more aggressive in a dating relationship than their male partners, according to a study published by the International Journal of Bahamian Studies. The College of theBahamasand theBahamasCrisis Center analyzed the results of a survey of more than 1,000 students ages ...

Last Updated on Friday, 24 October 2014, 21:13 by GxMedia San Juan, Oct 23 (EFE).- The World Bank is encouraging Caribbean governments to create more partnerships with the private sector and to “leverage young talents” as ways to stimulate economic growth. “The global financial crisis exposed the fragility of the Caribbean region,” the bank’s vice president for Latin America and ...

Last Updated on Friday, 24 October 2014, 20:52 by GxMedia An investigation into the Caribbean Airlines crash in Guyana four years ago has found that pilot error was the cause for the plane running off the runway at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA). The probe found that the plane touched down at approximately 4,700 feet of the 7,448 feet ...

Last Updated on Friday, 24 October 2014, 1:52 by GxMedia BY  Larry Celona, Jamie Schram, Shawn Cohen, Frank Rosario and Danika Fears (NEW YORK POST) A Harlem doctor who recently treated patients in Africa, tested positive for the deadly disease after he was rushed to Bellevue Hospital with symptoms, including a 103-degree fever, sources told The Post. Craig Spencer, a 33-year-old Doctors Without Borders volunteer, began showing symptoms ...