News media is reporting that Bounty Killer and Mavado are not only banned from performing in Guyana, but also their music is also banned on the airwaves in Guyana. The reggae dancehall artistes were banned from performing in Guyana last week by the government.

Describing himself as an eternal optimist West Indies cricket captain Brian Lara said yesterday that his team was in a crisis situation and challenged his players to get out of what he described as a deep hole.

A large band of gunmen stormed into the Kaieteur News printery at Eccles, Guyana, on Tuesday night and executed five men after shooting wildly in Bagotstown and killing another man.

Guyana is calling on Canada to help investigate the vicious murders of the country's agricultural minister and two of his siblings -- all Canadian citizens who were gunned down this weekend in what Guyanese officials say was an attempt to destabilize the country before the impending election.

Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday has said that yesterday's murder of Guyana's Agricultural Minister Satyadeo Sawh proves that violence has entered Caribbean politics. "I think the politics of the Caribbean is degenerating to the level of violence from which there will probably be no return," Panday told the Sunday Express.

Guyanese born reggae artist Dignitery is a Capricorn who entered this world on the blessed day of Janurary 6th, 1982.

GEORGETOWN ? West Indies cricket captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul was honoured by Guyana?s president Bharrat Jagdeo during a ceremony sponsored by his local club Unity/Lancaster in his hometown of Unity on Thursday afternoon.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Reuters) - Guyana appealed to the international community on Thursday to send food, boats, power generators and water pumps to help thousands of its inhabitants forced from their homes by the worst floods in more than a century.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- A would-be thief got a taste of his own medicine in Guyana when he was caught and attached to a utility pole with the same duct tape he intended to use to bind a family and rob them, police said Tuesday.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - Guyana's parliament has decided that the Caribbean Court of Justice will be the nation's highest appellate court when it opens next year.