US embassy denies espionage report
Talks are underway between the Home Affairs Ministry and Mormons on a settlement to allow church members to continue their work here and the US Embassy yesterday said that it issued no reports saying that the missionaries were expelled from Guyana because of possible espionage activities.
-residents call for action to stop “Road Head” deaths
A man who was returning home from a friend’s wake died Sunday night after he was hit by a car along the Agricola Public Road, East Bank Demerara.
-questions continue about abduction, police role
Beharry `Natoo’ Dookie, whose daughter Rorhema was abducted on Wednesday night and released on Thursday night, yesterday said that he does not fear for his family’s safety but knows “they must be careful”.
-relatives demand answers
Dwayne Archibald, one of the six inmates who attempted to escape from the Georgetown Prisons last December, died last Thursday at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after being stabbed by another prisoner in June.
Lennox O’Dean, the RK‘s security guard who was discovered bleeding from a fatal neck wound at Regent Street and Avenue of the Republic on Tuesday evening, was reportedly stabbed by a man who escaped in a waiting car.
A 59-year-old RK’s security guard, who was discovered last night by police unconscious and bleeding in the middle of a crowd at Regent Street and Avenue of the Republic, died shortly after being rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
-bad blood blame for savage attack
A North Sophia man died after he was savagely stabbed to the neck and stoned by another man in the area late Sunday night.
-families of chain snatcher, alleged traffic HQ thief aggrievedThe shooting to death of suspected lawbreakers by the police and vigilante justice meted out by licensed firearm holders have again raised the issue of the erosion of human rights.
–fourth friend in custody
Three men from Covent Garden died yesterday morning when the vehicle they were in slammed into a light pole on the East Bank Demerara Highway near Providence.
…wife fled with child after beating
A Cane Grove businessman was yesterday in a critical condition in the burn care unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital after allegedly beating his reputed wife and setting their home ablaze.
Arshad Ali, who had been accused of setting fire to a One Mile, Parika home in May, 2006 which caused the deaths of three persons, was found not guilty by a jury last evening.
Rajpattie Jagroop, 49, had been in her bed shortly before the drunken ex-lover of her 19-year-old daughter broke into her home and stabbed her to death.
The Region Four Senior Superintendent of Works, Stephen Glasgow, was allegedly responsible for the $1.1 million Bobby White Street, Bee Hive North “flimsy” bridge project and he has been asked to explain his actions
A letter, dated July 13, 2009, was sent to Glasgow by the Region Four Regional Executive Officer (REO) Shafdar Alli informing him that “It has been discovered and confirmed that the construction of `Bobby [White]’ Bridge…was not built to specification.”
A 33-year-old Albouystown man was going about his usual early morning routine yesterday when he was gunned down by a shooter who fled the scene leaving only a hat behind.
-had been complained about since January
-Contractor says workers bought the wrong ‘nails’
The “roughly constructed” $1.1M bridge at Bobby White Street, Bee Hive North was built in less than a day and a subsequent inspection revealed that the project’s contract had most likely been breached by the contractor.
Interviews by Sara Bharrat and photos by Jules Gibson
This week we asked the man/woman in the street if they have been following the GT&T Jingle Competition and who their favorite competitor was?
Benn says did not send officer home
Minister of Transport and Hydraulics Robeson Benn said that his recent visit to the Bee Hive North access bridge, about which residents have raised concerns, did not result in a senior Region Four officer being sent on leave.
-found in car trunk with plastic taped over head
Ramzan Alli, a Good Hope businessman, was yesterday discovered dead in the trunk of a rental car with a plastic bag duct-taped over his head on the Coldingen Railway Embankment Road.