Guyana News

Two robbery accused were yesterday slapped with additional charges, including for three separate carjackings, among which was the attack on cultural activist Ryhaan Shah.

A 31-year sentence imposed on ex-policeman Kevin Waterman for the killing of his girlfriend, policewoman Eleanor Jones, was on Wednesday reduced to 24 years by the Court of Appeal.

  Ex-policeman Shavon Marks, who was accused of aiding in the smuggling of an AK-47 rifle out of the Tactical Services Unit (TSU) compound at Eve Leary, had the charge against him dismissed on Wednesday after a city court found that the prosecution failed to prove its case.

The opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) is open to discussing the Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) signed between government and ExxonMobil, according to leader Bharrat Jagdeo in order to ensure a bipartisan approach towards a possible renegotiation.

Bandits on Monday afternoon broke into a Cummings Lodge businessman’s car and carted off his licensed firearm and $350,000 in cash while he was in the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) Head office, Brickdam transacting business.

Statements were served on Wednesday to Lance Corporal Clifton Pellew, the City Constabulary rank charged with raping a juvenile in his custody at the constabulary’s Regent Street outpost last August.

Leonard Grant called `Snakie’, 36, a labourer of Westbury, Essequibo Coast is now the latest guest of the state after he was remanded to prison yesterday for allegedly stabbing his reputed wife several times about her body.

According to Town Clerk Royston King, the Mayor and City Councillors of Georgetown will by the end of February be considering a new set of metered parking by-laws.

The Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) yesterday said that its monitoring and compliance department is fully functional.

Eighty-six persons  from 20 organisations have completed mass casualty management training and many of them are to be deployed for the upcoming Mashramani celebrations.

The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the Lindo Creek massacre was embarrassingly halted today even before it could get started as the Commission was uncertain of the appearance of scheduled witnesses.

A Lodge Housing Scheme, Georgetown resident who is suspected to be the mastermind behind a spate of carjackings, is being sought, the police said today in a statement.

Just weeks after they were shuttered, the Skeldon and Enmore estates will be reopened by the end of March and some cane cutters re-employed to demonstrate to potential buyers that the estates are viable and as such can be sold as going concerns, sources say.

Despite noting that there is “no prospect” at this time for a review of the controversial Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) between the government and a subsidiary of oil giant, ExxonMobil, President David Granger said yesterday that the matter is engaging the attention of Cabinet “These matters are before Cabinet and it depends on what determination Cabinet arrives at but the contract is an agreement between two parties and these things have to be approached very carefully.

Devon Griffith, called ‘Two Kicks’, 30, of Hope-town Village, West Coast Berbice yesterday  pleaded guilty to killing his aunt Vaulda Britton in the course of, or furtherance of a sexual offence of rape and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

A father of one died yesterday afternoon after the concrete wall of a bathroom which is currently under renovation crashed down on him at Good Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

As the police probe into a major carjacking ring widens, another  two persons were on Tuesday evening arrested and four other suspected stolen vehicles were seized at Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke/Linden Highway.

A second man was yesterday charged in relation to the alleged trafficking of 20.6 pounds of cocaine, which was found in frozen fish by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.

A Canal Number Two Polder farmer, who was charged with aiding an attempt to traffic over 100 pounds of cocaine, and offering a bribe of almost $1.5 million to a Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officer for his release, was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail.

A 77-year-old taxi driver was yesterday granted $200,000 bail, after he was charged with causing the death of a vagrant by dangerous driving.