Guyana News

GUYANESE PRESIDENT Bharrat Jagdeo is facing calls for a public inquiry into security forces' tactics after a series of cases where cops allegedly tortured suspects during questioning.

Guyana and Norway have entered into partnership to protect Guyana's tropical forests.

A woman jumped off a towering waterfall in Guyana on Saturday in an apparent suicide, tourism workers said.

The United States said it is helping Guyana track down a suspected mastermind in a series of domestic terror attacks, despite local concerns Washington is doing little to help, a US official said.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana a " Recent arson attacks and shootings in this violence-wracked South American nation are the work of a mastermind living in the United States, Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo alleged.Jagdeo made the allegation late Friday, shortly after his administration submitted a request to the U.S. Embassy for assistance with the ...

One of Lindena s adopted sons who is internationally known for singing soul and gospel returned to the community for a two-day show after close to 40 years, but he slipped in and out of the mining town without much fanfare.

References to the Guyanese diaspora invariably direct attention to some of the major metropolitan centres - the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom and in the region the Caribbean and Suriname.

The world economic downturn has significantly affected the tourism sector in the Caribbean with many countries recording a drop in tourist arrivals.

By Rickford Burke President of the Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy I join Guyana's former Attorney General, Bernard de Santos, Attorneys-at-Law Nigel Hughes, Raphael Trotman, Khemraj Ramjatan and 25 other prominent Attorneys, in strongly condemning the barbaric torture of the 14 year-old son of Ms Shirley Thomas, as well as the torture of ...

The United States Embassy in Guyana has revoked the visa of Press and Publicity Officer at the Office of the President, Kwami McCoy, following a controversial recording of him soliciting sex from a teenager a little over a month ago.

A group of heavily armed gunmen launched an early Wednesday morning attack on the Brickdam police station creating panic in the quiet downtown Georgetown, Guyana.

In Trinidad and Tobago where gas is king and where companies are weaned on energy profits, renewable energy is not on the cards at all.

Police in Guyana say the two ranks accused of torturing a young boy, including setting ablaze his genitals during an interrogation, have been charged criminally.

The Kaieteur News , one of Guyana's daily newspapers, is notorious for publishing explicit front-page photographs of crime scenes and murder victims, an editorial policy that has roused controversy in the past.

Breaking News , Children , Human Rights , Protest , Youth Languages: English Full Category List Excerpt Following a Kaieteur News report on the alleged torture of a 14-year-old boy by members of the Guyana police force, bloggers in Guyana and elsewhere in the Caribbean express shock and outrage.

If you're looking for an appropriate Revival Assembly for the male member of the species Bovinae, the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament fits the Bill, the Motion and the Resolution.

Police in Guyana said on Saturday two officers had been arrested over accusations of setting fire to a 14-year-old boy's genitals in a case creating an uproar in the South American nation.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - A 14-year-old suspect detained for questioning about the murder of a government official was severely tortured by police officers while in custody, a Guyanese legislator alleged Saturday.

Former Guyanese talk show host and former treason accused Mark Benschop was arrested here on Thursday as heavily- armed policemen raided his home in the city and seized a piece of wireless equipment which authorities say was being used to operate an illegal radio station.

A 29-year-old prisoner accused of murdering another inmate was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistratea s Court.