Guyana News

Convicted child rapist Abdool Jamil was yesterday handed two life sentences by Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry for raping a 10-year-old on two occasions.

Already serving a term of life imprisonment for the rape of a young child, Mark Campbell was handed yet another life sentence yesterday after confessing to a similar crime.

As the probe of the fatal shooting of Brazilian miner Estevão Costa Marques continues, the two policemen accused of the crime have been transported to Georgetown for questioning, while several others, deemed as witnesses, were also expected to arrive in the capital last evening.

A 14-year-old on Friday became the third teen indicted for the rape of an 11-year-old girl.

Ronald Saunders, a security guard who pleaded guilty to swindling his former employer of $2.7 million, was yesterday sentenced to 56 months in jail for the crime.

What was supposed to be an afternoon of fun turned tragic for a family on Saturday, when a man drowned while trying to save his 12-year-old daughter and his seven-year-old grandson at Bushy Park, Parika.

A 19-year-old was shot in his face on Saturday night as he tried to avoid what appeared to be an attempted robbery at his family’s Good Hope, East Coast Demerara home.

Former Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams top student Yogeeta Persaud, who died suddenly in Peru on Sunday, was expected to be back home by the end of the month, according to her father Thakur Persaud.

The body of a Tain Village, Corentyne farmer was discovered on the Kilmarnock Village, Corentyne Public Road sometime around 4 am yesterday.

In her conduct at the Amazonia Mall last month, columnist Anand Goolsarran said that Minister in the Ministry of Natural Resources Simona Broomes breached several provisions of her government’s Code of Conduct for government officials.

Mid-Atlantic Oil and Gas Incorporated is now legally entitled to all of the same tax concessions which ExxonMobil’s local subsidiary and its partners enjoy following a motion which was passed last week in the National Assembly.

The Ministry of Legal Affairs’ recent declaration that the Judicial Review Act (JRA) will not be operationalised until consultations are held and amendments are made is a direct violation of an order of the court, according to attorney Anil Nandlall, who yesterday said that he will be filing contempt proceedings before the end of the week.

Charged a little over a year ago with causing the death of a pedestrian, Tower Suites Hotel driver Wayne Christiani was yesterday found guilty of the lesser count of dangerous driving and fined $50,000.

A 21-year-old plumber was yesterday fined $15,000 after admitting to committing a robbery with aggravation and subsequently escaping from the custody of the city police.

In two weeks, the office of the city’s Clerk of Markets will be relocated from the Stabroek Market to the Kitty Market, according to Town Clerk Royston King, who said the new accommodation is being finalised.

Neither the Ministry of Education (MOE) nor the Department of Labour has responded to the declared intention of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) to engage in strike action but the union is already advising its members to “hold the line”.

The lone survivor of the accident on Sunday morning that claimed the lives of three persons on the La Grange Public Road, West Bank Demerara, is no longer listed as critical and is in a stable condition.

Despite more than a month elapsing since the United Minibus Union (UMU) met with the Ministry of Business to discuss a proposed increase in bus fares, head of the union Eon Andrews says that a joint statement is expected soon.

A 24-year-old man was yesterday sentenced to three years in prison after admitting to conning three persons out of a total of $900,000 by pretending that he could supply them with vehicles.

A Croal Street man was granted his release on bail last Friday after he denied charges of defrauding three persons of over $400,000 in total, which he accepted to drill a well.