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.
[ Read full article: 'Guyana Government Drafting Legislation To Raise Age Of Consent' ]
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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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
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
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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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