Topic: Guyana

The new items published under this topic are as follows.

News: Guyana Government Drafting Legislation To Raise Age Of Consent

Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 01:32 PM
Guyana

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Tues. June 8: Less than a week after rights activists denounced the country?s laws that allow a 12 year old to consent to sex, Guyana?s Minister of Labor, Human Services and Social Security, Bibi Shaddick, said the government is actively pursuing measures to have the age of consent raised.

News: Guyana's interior minister steps down

Saturday, May 08, 2004 - 10:08 PM
Guyana

Georgetown, May. 8 (UPI) -- The embattled interior minister of Guyana has agreed to step down to allow an inquiry into allegations he ran a death squad, the BBC reported Saturday.

News Source: Washington Times

News: She died in sons' arms

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 11:32 AM
Guyana

A hard-working woman who brought her two sons to New York from Guyana seven years ago and recently became an American citizen was found dead by police in her well-kept Bronx apartment early yesterday.

News Source: NY Newsday

News: Iranian police in Guyana to probe scholar's abduction

Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 10:47 PM
Guyana

Iranian police were in Guyana on Monday, probing the abduction of an Iranian scholar earlier this month, amid concerns among Shiites here that Guyanese police had been slow to solve the case...

News Source: Iran Mania

Cricket: New cat on the prowl in West Indies

Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 01:03 PM
Guyana

There is this cricket ground here, unpretentious and not a little unkempt. Drainage ditches surround it and beyond those the road and houses. The outfield is bumpy, frequently soggy and the grass grows spiky and coarse in the rain...

News Source: Guardian Unlimited

News: Mullahs of Iran want info on abducted mullah

Saturday, April 10, 2004 - 02:56 PM
Guyana

Iran's government has asked Guyana for information on a missing Iranian cleric who was kidnapped last week as he was leaving an Islamic studies center in the South American country's capital, officials said Friday...

News Source: Persian Journal

News: Bandit killed in police shootout

Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 12:44 PM
Guyana

One bandit was killed and another arrested when police engaged them in a gun battle on Sunday evening at Success, East Coast Demerara, just after the pair had beaten and robbed a poultry farmer and his wife...

News Source: Stabroek News

News: 13 Nabbed In JFK Coke Bust

Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 03:37 AM
Guyana

NEW YORK (AP) Federal agents arrested 13 alleged members of a drug ring that smuggled cocaine from Guyana to the New York City area through John F. Kennedy International Airport...

News Source: CBS New York

News: Death squad went partying after hits

Sunday, March 28, 2004 - 04:37 PM
Guyana

Death squad members used to joke about their hits at all-night parties says a witness who claims to have been close to the group...

News Source: Stabroek News

News: Mother found dead with knife in neck

Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 04:23 PM
Guyana

A young mother of four has been found dead in her D'Urban Street apartment with a knife through her neck...

News Source: Stabroek News

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