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Guyana is treating climate change mitigation as one of its key concerns in talks with donor partners as it prepares for another billion-euro round of funding from the European Union. The media was Wednesday briefed on a two-day preparatory meeting ahead of the 11th European Development Fund [EDF] Programming Seminar for the Caribbean Region which opens on Thursday in Georgetown. ...

(SUN SENTINEL).-A Broward jury on Tuesday convicted a Pembroke Pines man of the murder of his adoptive mother, rejecting a defense claim that he had consensual sex with the victim and then passed out while someone else killed her. Gerard Lopes Belmonte, 23, was found guilty of second-degree murder after jurors deliberated for five hours Tuesday. He faces a maximum ...

A minibus conductor was Tuesday night killed and 11 others injured when the vehicle he was working on collided with a car in Georgetown. He was identified as Gavin De Ali, 22, of Non Pariel, East Coast Demerara. The accident occurred at the intersection of Brickdam and Louisa Row. Eyewitnesses said a car “jumped” Brickdam and slammed into a Route ...

Rear Admiral, Gary Best on Tuesday called on government to overhaul the way it allocates resources to the security sector and urged that the air and maritime wings be strengthened up. “Therefore, from a defence perspective, it is critical that a constant and sharp eye be placed on aviation and maritime development to provide faster access for forest and remote ...

The handgun allegedly found in possession of a man who the police gunned down at Meten-Meer-Zorg was used at the scene of the robbery-murder in that West Coast Demerara village, police said. Deputy Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud said ballistic tests conducted on spent shells found at the scene of Vicky Namdar’s murder and robbery on September 11 matched the 9 ...

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) on Tuesday urged government to give BK International a fair chance to prove that it can satisfy local stone demand, in the wake of claims that there is a shortage. “In this particular case, the Ministry of Public Works should concede the benefit of the doubt to BK International and take the ...

A major crackdown on a criminal network on the Essequibo Islands and West Coast Demerara continued overnight and several persons have confessed to a robbery-murder and armed robbery, police said. Deputy Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud said a wanted bulletin would be issued for the suspected mastermind who fled into a cemetery at Meten Meer Zorg, West Coast Demerara and vanished ...

Ten acres of marijuana plants were Monday destroyed and two men were arrested, police said. Guyana Police Force spokesman, Ivelaw Whittaker said two men are to be charged in connection with the two fields of marijuana at Yarrowkabra, Linden-Soesdyke Highway. Sources said they told police that they were labourers who were taken there to plant the marijuana. Five other men ...

Thirteen suspects were Monday arrested and one handgun seized in connection with two recent armed attacks that left one person dead and another injured. Deputy Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud said a 9MM handgun and six rounds of ammunition were found in possession of one of the men who is a boat operator. Investigators believed that several of those arrested might ...

The Guyana Prize for Literature 2012 was announced in five categories at the awards ceremony held at the Pegasus Hotel Sunday night. Professor Jane Bryce welcomed the holding of writers’ workshops to help improve the quality of literary works. She shared the view that those workshops appeared to have strengthened local writing and so unpublished manuscripts dominated the shortlists in ...