Guyana News

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) has discovered a drug ring inside two Georgetown secondary schools and charges are expected to be laid soon.

A US-based Guyanese and a woman were robbed at gunpoint of $7.4m yesterday afternoon by two motorcycle bandits, the police say.

With the planned reopening of the Skeldon and Enmore sugar estates, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday rained criticism on the David Granger-led APNU+AFC government saying that the move  was reflective of their  “phenomenal incompetence”.

Two women went on trial at the  High Court in Berbice this week  for the murder of overseas-based Guyanese, Abdul Majid, whose body was  found with scalp missing and other injuries at the Number 56 Village, Corentyne foreshore back in 2012.

A Number Two Village, East Canje, Berbice mason was on Wednesday remanded to prison after he was charged with unlawfully and maliciously discharging a firearm which injured a West Coast Berbice door-to-door goldsmith last Sunday.

A US$5 million grant from the Government of Japan to Guyana and Dominica, aimed at strengthening the disaster management capacities of women and indigenous people, was signed between the Ministry of Finance and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) yesterday.

The Government of Japan has awarded grants to three local community development organisations.

A mother and daughter are expected to face a narcotics trafficking charge in a city court today following the discovery of cocaine in the latter’s handbag while she was an outbound passenger at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.

The United Nations yesterday handed over 120 solar lanterns to the Education and Health ministries, making Guyana the first South American country to benefit from Panasonic Inc’s 100,000 Solar Lanterns Project.

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.