Kester Clarke

A tourist was yesterday injured by falling debris from the “The City Food Court” building under construction at the junction of Robb and Camp streets.

Estimates totalling some $2.4B for the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport were yesterday approved, even as members of the opposition queried expenditures under the Sport and Art Development Fund.

Five men will today be appearing in a city magistrate’s court to be charged with the murder of kidnapped Enmore businessman Rajendra Singh and according to a police source it was telephone records that ensured that all the major players were arrested.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon on Tuesday returned to work after being ill and on medical leave for over three months.

A Guyana Revenue Authority officer accused of trafficking in cocaine via mail was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.

Seeking to attract more Guyanese to the University of the West Indies (UWI), Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Clement Sankat yesterday told local students that the institution can help nurture them into becoming the region’s next leaders.

The Prairie International Hotel, located at Coverden, East Bank Demerara, is up for sale.

A post-mortem examination performed on the body of four-month-old Phillip Pratt has revealed that he died of complications from bronchitis.

A full forensic audit has been ordered into the operations of the Guyana Gold Board (GGB) as police continue a probe of a fraud at the operation that reportedly could involve the loss of tens of millions of dollars.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh on Tuesday presented a revision of the 2014 budget paving the way for the judiciary to be financed via a direct charge on the Consolidated Fund.

At the Berbice High Court yesterday, Justice Diana Insanally sentenced two men to 20 years imprisonment each for the June 3, 2012 murder of Marlon Andrew Ramcharran.

Police are investigating the reported non-response to calls placed to the 911 emergency hotline number by victims of a robbery at a wake house on Monday night, Police Public Relations Officer Ivelaw Whittaker said.

A Charlestown man was yesterday sentenced to six years imprisonment after being found guilty of six counts of armed robbery committed late last year.

The Buxton Youth Developers (BYD) are now beneficiaries of a donation made by Courts Guyana.

An Albouystown man will be a guest of the state for the next three years, after he admitted to trafficking in nearly 200 grammes of cannabis yesterday when he appeared in a city court.

An early morning smash-up at the corner of Charlotte and King streets yesterday left a passenger bus and a car badly mangled and the metal doors of a store dented.

Anthony Morrison, who was on trial for the murder of his common law wife, will have to face a retrial after a jury failed to return a unanimous verdict on his guilt yesterday.

A labourer accused of assaulting his partner with an iron over her refusal to be intimate with him was yesterday remanded to prison after strong objections were raised to his being released.

  Males of this species are mainly dark grey, with a black throat and crown.

The Festive Amazon (Amazona festiva), also known as the Festive Parrot, is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family.