Guyana News

A Land of Canaan man was yesterday remanded to prison, after he was charged with ammunition possession.

A Leopold Street man was yesterday remanded to prison on charges of armed robbery and possession of several grammes of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking.

Bids were opened on Tuesday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the rehabilitation of structures along the East Bank Berbice Road under the Ministry of Public Infrastructure.

Police Prosecutor Vishnu Hunt yesterday closed and then reopened the prosecution’s case in the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the charge against Jermain Jefford and Howard Rambharose, who were implicated in the murder of Laing Avenue taxi driver Orin David.

The virtual complainant who was allegedly shot by a former policeman at a popular bar last November, yesterday testified, at the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the attempted murder charge against Lloyd Lyte, before Magistrate Judy Latchman.

The Police say they are investigating the murder of Deonarine Laljit, 37, a hire car operator of No.72 Village, Corentyne, Berbice which occurred about 13:00h today at Line Path Public Road.

A gunman was fatally shot, while two of his accomplices were captured yesterday morning after their brazen attempt to rob the Republic Bank branch on Water Street, Georgetown, turned into a hair-raising shootout with guards and the police.

After managing to elude the police for almost eight months, US based-Guyanese, Marcus Brian Bisram, the alleged mastermind of the murder of Number 70 Village carpenter Faiyaz Narinedatt, was yesterday afternoon arrested in Queens, New York.

In the face of a changing international relations landscape President David Granger has called on his fellow heads of state to accelerate the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) in order to create a single economic space.

The European Union (EU) yesterday corrected figures it gave for support for the sugar industry over a seven-year period, saying it was $34.85 billion and not $348.5 billion as was “inadvertently” stated by its Ambassador, Jernej Videtič, last week.

The current flooding in the Rupununi is under control says Regional Chairman Bryan Allicock though many farms remain under water.

Two young men were yesterday charged with the fatal beating of Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara resident Kumar Persaud, known as ‘Radika,’ after he refused to leave a beach where the accused had been engaged in a threesome with a woman.

A governing coalition member, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), yesterday voiced its outrage at the rental of living quarters for Junior Minis-ter of Natural Resources Simona Broomes at a price tag of $500,000 and called for a review of the payment of mega rates for ministers.

Three men are now remanded prisoners on the charge that they robbed a Chinese businessman of millions in cash and items.

An armed robbery suspect was on Monday night accidentally stabbed by his accomplice during a raid on a shop owner at Vigilance, East Coast Demerara.

Government yesterday committed to tabling the Constitutional Reform and Consultative Bill, intended to advance the constitutional reform process, before the upcoming parliamentary recess in August.

A year after its opening, the rebranded Tower Suites is reporting an occupancy rate between 50 and 80 percent.

In a bid to ensure that the target of 40,000 tonnes of cane for the Uitvlugt Estate Improvement Programme [UEIP] is achieved by 2020, the estate is implementing new strategies, including the planting of “block cane.”

A city court yesterday denied bail to a policeman, who allegedly obtained $790,000 from a businessman by claiming he could get him a gun licence.

After a 19-year hiatus, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure has reconvened the Transport Advisory Council in a bid to improve the operations of the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD).