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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Hundreds of Africanized "killer" bees have stung a rice farmer to death in the South American nation of Guyana. It is the second such death of a Guyanese farmer in two weeks.Police identify the latest victim as 45-year-old Jerome O'Brian Scott. A statement says Scott and two other men were swarmed Thursday as they headed home from a rice farm in Liverpool Village....
A mother of eight has died in the South American country of Guyana after she was attacked by a swarm of Africanized bees.Police said Friday that 47-year-old Munia Sa...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — In a Jan. 27 story about an Iranian effort to map Guyana's mineral resources, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Guyana Preside...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana's security minister says there is no reason to take the United States up on its offer to provide advisers who could help with crime-...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A television broadcaster and perennial presidential candidate in Guyana was ordered jailed Tuesday on a child rape charge.Chief Magistrate ...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A 20-year-old garbage collector in the South American country of Guyana has pleaded guilty to performing an indecent act on a dead body aft...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A fisherman in Guyana says he was attacked by a jaguar on a remote river in the Rupununi savanna near the border with Brazil .Clarence Bern...
Akbar Muhammad, a U.S. Muslim cleric visiting this South American country, was detained Thursday on suspicion of ties to drugs and terrorism, Guyana police said.Offi...
In colonial times, the governor of what was then called British Guiana would impose hefty fines on officials who refused to show up and do their jobs.Today, the rugg...
A longtime aide to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on Friday denied allegations of ties to drugs and terrorism that led to his detainment in Guyana.Akbar Muha...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana's president has filed a libel lawsuit against a leading newspaper for a column that accused him of racism and of hiring people to di...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana is launching a campaign to draw more men to teach in the classroom, saying students have very few male role models.Education Ministe...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana's military will assist police in patrolling high-crime areas in response to a spike in gun violence.Col. Bruce Lovell said Sunday th...
30 years later, the story of murder and ritual suicide in jungle of Guyana is still shocking
Dark clouds tumbled overhead on that afternoon 30 years ago, in the last hours of the congressman's mission deep in the jungle of Guyana.With a small entourage, Rep....
Guyana says it will resume rice shipments to neighboring Venezuela following the renewal of a $130 million rice-for-oil deal between the two South American countries...
CANAL NUMBER TWO, Guyana (AP) — A 15-year-old girl has died after neighbors and a local pastor tried to treat her convulsions with an exorcism at a church, and Guyan...
Giant leatherback turtles, some weighing half as much as a small car, drag themselves out of the ocean and up the sloping shore on the northeastern coast of Trinidad...
The U.S. government has joined a growing list of international agencies calling on authorities in Guyana to immediately revoke radio frequencies issued to those clos...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Police in the South American country of Guyana say they have detained a man suspected of killing two of his young children with a machete and c...