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Hundreds of Africanized bees attack rice farmers in Guyana , kill 1, police say

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....

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  1. Mother of 8 killed by Africanized bees in Guyana

    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...

  2. Correction: Guyana -Iran story

    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...

  3. Guyana minister says US security advisers not needed to help fight crime in violent nation

    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-...

  4. Guyana TV station owner and opposition figure ordered jailed on child rape charge

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A television broadcaster and perennial presidential candidate in Guyana was ordered jailed Tuesday on a child rape charge.Chief Magistrate ...

  5. Guyana garbage collector fined after pleading guilty to exhuming woman's body, abusing it

    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...

  6. Guyana fisherman recovering from jaguar attack; second reported in region

    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...

  7. Guyana detains US Muslim cleric in terrorism probe

    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...

  8. Guyana officials stay nearly 20 years in mandates

    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...

  9. Farrakhan aide detained in Guyana blasts police, denies terror, drug claims

    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...

  10. Guyana leader sues newspaper over column that portrayed him as racist

    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...

  11. Guyana sets campaign to attract more men to teaching, saying students need male role models

    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...

  12. Soldiers in Guyana will bolster police patrols in high-crime areas after spike in gun violence

    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...

  1. Remembering Jonestown

    30 years later, the story of murder and ritual suicide in jungle of Guyana is still shocking

  2. 30 Years Later, Survivors Remember Jonestown Massacre

    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....

  3. Guyana to send rice to Venezuela under Petrocaribe

    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...

  4. Guyana police investigating death of 15-year-old girl after exorcism to treat convulsions

    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...

  5. Sea turtle comeback in a corner of the Caribbean

    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...

  6. US calls on Guyana to revoke radio frequencies

    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...

  7. Guyana Man Suspected of Killing 2 Kids, Injuring 1

    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...

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