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Alix Yule Two months after Guyanese Dr. Naresh Singh resigned as Programme Director of the Caribbean Local Economic Development Project (CARILED), he has been replaced by Canadian Alix Yule. Singh in mid February resigned from CARILED in his failed bid to become the Deputy Secretary General of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) after questions had been raised about his alleged ...

One man has been arrested and police are hunting two others in connection with the armed robbery of almost half a million dollars from a businesswoman on the Corentyne.

President Donald Ramotar (left at lectern) addressing foreigners living and working in Guyana. President Donald Ramotar on Monday warned foreigners working here against getting involved in the drug trade and other illegal activities, while assuring them that immigration bottlenecks would addressed.

Gruesome: A body is removed from the home after the shootings (WALL STREET JOURNAL).-An off-duty New York Police Department officer apparently shot and killed her 1-year-old son and the boy’s father before fatally shooting herself inside her apartment in Brooklyn on Monday morning, a law enforcement official said.

Several media personalities protest opposite Office of the President, Shiv Chanderpaul Drive. Even as President Donald Ramotar and opposition negotiators were Monday morning meeting on a range of issues inside the President’s Office, several media owners protested the unfair allocation of radio frequencies.

The 25-year old woman, who allegedly killed her eight month old son,  was Monday arraigned on a charge of muder.

Orin Joseph (Stabroek News photo) President of the Georgetown Domino Association, Orin Joseph was shot dead by a gunman outside his home in South Ruimveldt, a relative confirmed.

(CARICOM NEWS NETWORK).- CARACAS, Venezuela, Monday April 15, 2013 – Caribbean heads of government breathed a collective sigh of relief on Sunday night as Venezuelans voted to honor Hugo Chavez’s dying wish for  Nicolas Maduro to continue his socialist revolution.

On the eve of talks between President Donald Ramotar and senior representatives of the opposition to avert a GUY$38 billion cut in the 2013 national budget, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Sunday night made a last ditch appeal for good reason to prevail.

The mangled Recreational Vehicle in which the German couple was travelling. A German man was Sunday killed and his wife injured in a mishap on the Lethem road, according to well-placed sources.