By News Source Guyana on July 12, 2015
Opinions
To claim what’s not yours is an act of misplaced aggression. To continue to want to grab what has been settled by international arbitration is a show of contempt for the rule of law. To decide on one day you will use this decree and next day use another in efforts to push an agenda […]
By News Source Guyana on July 12, 2015
Caribbean & International
(BBC) Prosecutors in Brazil have begun investigating the deaths of about 10,000 fish that had been brought in to fill a huge freshwater aquarium. Building work on the project, in the western city of Campo Grande, overran and the fish died in temporary tanks. The company contracted to look after them, Anambi, blamed the deaths […]
By News Source Guyana on July 12, 2015
Caribbean & International
(BBC) Top Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman, known as El Chapo or “Shorty”, has escaped from a maximum security prison for a second time, officials say. In a statement, Mexico’s National Security Commission said Guzman was last seen in the showers of the Altiplano jail late on Saturday night. He was the leader of the […]
By News Source Guyana on July 12, 2015
Sports
Kingston, Jamaica: A star performance from Barbados Tridents captain Kieron Pollard with bat, ball and in the field helped to deny the Appleton Estate Jamaica Tallawahs the chance to replace their opponents at the top of the Hero Caribbean Premier League table in front of a sell-out crowd at Sabina Park. Krishmar Santokie, the leading […]
By News Source Guyana on July 12, 2015
Sports
It was Gwendolyn O’Neil’s first time back in the ring after a four year break and Guyana’s first female World Champion certainly did not disappoint the huge (mostly Guyanese) crowd in Philipsburg St Maarten when she stopped Sonya Lamonakis via split decision to win the vacant Universal Boxing Federation (UBF) heavyweight title last weekend. The […]
By News Source Guyana on July 12, 2015
Sports
Guyana’s Minister of State Joseph Harmon met with Chief Executive Officer of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) cricket tournament Damien O’Donohoe on Friday and gave the government’s commitment to the CPL. “Guyana is not only a cricket loving country but a cricket crazy country so we have every reason to welcome the back to Guyana […]
By News Source Guyana on July 12, 2015
News, Politics
An early Sunday morning fire completely gutted the Chinese General Store in the old AH&L Kissoon’s building at the corner of Robb and Camp Streets, leaving nothing but ashes and millions of dollars in losses behind. The fire service was summoned to the scene just after 2:00am according to eyewitnesses who reported seeing the blaze […]
By News Source Guyana on July 12, 2015
News, Politics
The Guyana Police Force reported late on Saturday that there were 79 murders committed across Guyana between the January and the end of June for this year and one other murder recorded for the month of July so far. There were 69 murders during the first six months of the year in 2014. The Force […]
By News Source Guyana on July 12, 2015
News, Politics
(TeleSUR English) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro sent a letter Friday to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asking the U.N. chief to appoint a new Good Officer to diplomatically address the Venezuela-Guyana territorial issue. “As it is public knowledge, the new Government of Guyana has ignored, the entry into force of the 1966 Geneva agreement, showing a stubborn and ambivalent attitude and has inflicted serious […]
By News Source Guyana on July 11, 2015
News
The badly decomposed bodies of a woman and her young baby were found late Friday night in a home at Grove on the East Bank of Demerara. The discovery was made by neighbours and the police. Persons in the area had summoned the police to the house to investigate the source of a rotting stench […]