Sharda Bacchus

District Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo has been charged in relation to the alleged fraud surrounding the March 2nd General and Regional Elections and is expected to appear before a Magistrate this week.

The High Court yesterday granted the police an extension to further detain District Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo for an additional 24 hours, as the investigation into the alleged fraud surrounding the March 2nd General and Regional elections continues.

As the police probe into the alleged fraud surrounding the March 2nd General and Regional elections widens, Information Technology (IT) officer Enrique Livan who was at the centre of a flash drive controversy at the Ashmins building on march 4th was yesterday arrested by the police.

A team of doctors on Saturday successfully performed Guyana’s first skull transplant giving a 23-year-old single parent a new lease on life.

Four persons are now dead and several others are hospitalised after a speeding motorcar collided head-on with a canter truck along the Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara Public Road yesterday afternoon.

Hundreds of millions of dollars were paid out to more than 50 contract workers of the Ministry of Communities under the previous APNU+AFC administration over the past five years with no record or evidence of their performance, newly appointed Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Nigel Dharamlall has said.

The new PPP/C government is working to secure $4.5 billion as an emergency response for households affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and is also establishing a response unit as part of a revamped effort to tackle the disease that has claimed 22 lives and battered the business sector.

Cecil Sampat, the man who succumbed on Wednesday almost two weeks after he was allegedly shot following a police chase in the city, died as a result of sepsis caused by gunshot injuries, an autopsy confirmed on Friday.

It has been nineteen years since market vendor Deoraj Bipat was beaten to death at Bushy Park, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) and his family is still seeking answers and hoping for closure.

Fifty-five-year-old Roger Martindale, the country’s latest novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) fatality, was being treated for tuberculosis (TB), which he was diagnosed with just months ago.

The police have obtained a number of statements as they continue to investigate the cause of the July 12 fire at the Lusignan Prison during which a wooden building was destroyed, Commander of Region 4B Royston Andries-Junor confirmed.

The families of Rajesh Singh and Fazil Hakim, the two men who were gunned down more than 12 years ago at a rum shop in Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara say that while they are relieved with the recent sentencing of the killer, the death sentence would have been of greater satisfaction.

It has been more than a year since nursing assistant Schenise Apple was discovered dead in her apartment at the nurses’ quarters at Mahdia, in Region Eight, and her mother continues to seek justice from authorities, whom she is still waiting on to launch a promised inquiry.

A preliminary investigation has found that the seizure of contraband items, including marijuana, from an inmate and the assault of another by prison officers triggered Sunday’s unrest at the Lusignan Prison, where a wooden building was destroyed by fire.

The dead body of a Kuru Kururu, Linden-Soesdyke Highway pensioner was discovered in his yard on Friday night.

The Guyana Forensic Science Laboratory (GFSL) processed more than 100 pieces of evidence in the first quarter of this year and systems are in place to ensure that its services are not interrupted during the new Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Junita Gomes, the Kato Village, Region Eight woman who was diagnosed with a rare brain tumour more than a year ago, has undergone a successful “lifesaving” surgical procedure to drain the fluid from her brain.

Some Presiding Officers (POs) from the East Coast of Demerara polling stations, which have now become the focal point of the APNU+AFC’s allegations of electoral fraud due to missing documents, say they acted on instructions from their Deputy Returning Officers (DROs) to not place them in the ballot boxes.

Almost a year after being diagnosed with a rare brain tumour, a mother of eight of Kato Village, in Region Eight, is now slated to undergo the first phase of her treatment tomorrow.

A 61-year-old woman was murdered in her Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara house yesterday afternoon and police were forced to use teargas to force the suspect out  after he attempted to hide in the ceiling.