At least 20 people were killed Sunday in a school dormitory fire in Guyana, the government said in a statement, with the nation's president calling it a "major disaster." "This is a major disaster. It ...

On May 21, a fire at a high school girls' dormitory caused 20 child deaths in Guyana. The blaze was intentionally lit by a female student who has since been detained and charged with murder. Guyana’s ...

The fire that ripped through a boarding school dorm in Guyana and killed 19 children, all but one of them Indigenous girls, was deliberately set by a student angry that her cell phone had been ...

A 15-year-old girl who is accused of having started a fire at a school dormitory in Guyana last week was charged with 19 murders on Monday. At least 20 people were killed Sunday in a school dormitory ...

GEORGETOWN (Reuters) - A 15-year-old girl who is accused of having started a fire at a school dormitory in Guyana last week was charged with 19 murders on Monday. The fire killed 18 mostly Indigenous ...

Georgetown, Guyana — Investigators in Guyana believe a fire that killed 19 mostly girls trapped in a school dormitory late on Sunday was deliberately set by a student who was upset that her mobile ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana’s government has launched an online school expected to boost the education of thousands of students in the South American nation’ s vast and largely impoverished ...

Guyana has been approved by the Caricom Council of Legal Education (CLE) to establish a law school, President Irfaan Ali announced yesterday, during his inauguration address. “Based on the recent ...

MAHDIA, Guyana -- At least 19 of the 20 people who died in a "horrific" school dormitory fire were children, officials said on Monday, after a blaze tore through the building in the Caribbean country ...

GEORGETOWN, May 29 (Reuters) - (This May 29 story has been corrected to change the number of girls flown to New York to 'one', not 'two', in paragraph 5) A 15-year-old girl who is accused of having ...