A suspected bandit was Friday afternoon shot and killed when he allegedly opened fire on police who had gone to probe a break-in at a Mahaicony home. Police were up to Thursday night hunting the suspect’s accomplice who escaped into the backlands of the East Coast Demerara village. Another male suspect was arrested while attempting to board a minibus. One ...

Consensus on priority programmes and needs, and increased national leadership to sustain the regional AIDS response are among the expected outcomes of a meeting of national AIDS programme managers, donors and regional partners. The meeting is scheduled for October 21-23, 2013, at the Hyatt Regency Trinidad, in Port of Spain. With funding from the PANCAP Round 9 Global Fund grant, ...

A man was shot Friday when he pulled at a firearm that was in possession of a policeman who is his friend. Injured is 50-year old Morris Porter of Laluni Street, Queenstown. He was struck to his left side. He has been admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Guyana Police Force spokesman, Ivelaw Whittaker said that about 1:05 ...

A Nigerian man, who entered Guyana illegally and attempted to obtain a Guyanese passport with a genuine Guyanese birth certificate, has been deported to neighbouring Suriname, the Home Affairs Ministry said on Friday. David Nduka pleaded guilty to arriving in Guyana by sea without the consent of an immigration officer as well as making a false declaration for the purpose ...

Opposition Leader, David Granger on Friday expressed astonishment at a joint statement that emerged from border talks between the Foreign Ministers of Venezuela and Guyana. He said the statement issued after six hours of talks in Trinidad between Foreign Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett and her Venezuelan counterpart Elias Jaua did not deal with the Venezuelan Navy’s actions last week Thursday. “The ...

The death toll in Friday afternoon’s smash-up between a sand-laden truck and a Mahdia-bound minibus has risen to four. Six persons, including a two-year old infant, were rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital. The truck driver is said to be unconscious. Those who perished are 42-year old Felix Culbert “Bertie” Marks of Mahdia and Victoria Road, Plaisance,  Delroy Evans and ...

Guyana and Venezuela Thursday night agreed that they would within four months begin groundwork for the start of negotiations for the delimitation of their maritime boundary, in the wake of last week’s arrest of a seismic research ship by the Venezuelan navy. Foreign Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett said that during the six-hour meeting in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad with her delegation and one ...

“Upset and outraged” that many employers are allegedly refusing to pay their workers the minimum wage, the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) planned to take them to the government. “From certain security services to liquor restaurants FITUG will forward complaints to the Ministry of Labour and expects swift prosecution of these rabid violators,” the union body said ...

Guyana will next week stage a mock flood disaster codenamed “Operation Floodgate” to test the country’s emergency response system, government announced on Thursday. The simulation exercise would be conducted by the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) from October 21 to 25 in Regions 4, 5, 6 and 9. National Disaster Response Coordinator, Dr. Roger Luncheon said the exercise is aimed at ...

Guyana needs to dispense more cash into HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria because international funds are drying up to fight those diseases, a senior United Nations official said here on Thursday. While the country is on track to achieving the UN-set Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Number 6, Country Coordinator for UNAIDS, Roberto Campos said the country needed to provide 50 percent ...