Guyana News

Vishaul Moonilal, a Kitty businessman was yesterday placed on $1,500,000 bail for ten fraud charges.

Residents of Hand-en-Veldt, Mahaica, are receiving water for the first, through an intervention by the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), according to the Department of Public Information.

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon on Tuesday convened the first National Hydrographic Committee (NHC) to coordinate the sustainable management of Guyana’s sea and river resources.

The lights at the seawall bandstand and the surrounding environs at Kingston, Georgetown, have been restored, according to head of the Street and Highway Lights Department Terrence O’Brien.

Minister of Finance Winston Jordan charged the graduates of the Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) Skills Training Programme to use their newly acquire qualifications to fight against unemployment and to “soar just like the eagle.”

The Ministry of Agriculture says that the new set of workers who are expected to be laid off from the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) have already been catered for in the released figure of 4,763.

As efforts continue to monitor the country’s marine resources, the Ministry of Agriculture’s  Department of Fisheries has budgeted $54M for a vessel to monitor boats fishing in the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) Chief Fisheries Officer, Denzil Roberts told the Department of Public Information (DPI) that the procuring of the vessel later this year will vastly enhance the agency’s ability to monitor local and international fishing vessels licensed to operate in local waters.

The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB)  is pushing to have a Seed Cleaner installed at its Burma Rice Research Station, according to a release on Tuesday from the Ministry of Agriculture.

A man was yesterday sentenced to one month in prison after requesting to be sent to prison.

A man was yesterday placed on $65,000 bail for allegedly converting borrowed items to his own use.

A 36-year-old construction worker was yesterday placed on $75,000 bail on a charge of theft, It is alleged that Shazad Akim between January 22nd and January 23rd, at North Road stole a red jackhammer valued at $100,000 and 16 sacks of cement, property of Joseph Blair.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British pop musician Elton John is to quit touring after nearly 50 years, the Daily Mirror newspaper reported.

The New Building Society (NBS) today strongly defended the action taken by its staff yesterday in securing the building when an attempt was made to levy on its assets in relation to a $59m court award to its former CEO Maurice Arjoon.

Collaborative work between detectives of ‘C’ Division (East Coast Demerara) and ‘D’ Division (West Demerara/ East Bank Essequibo) has resulted in the recapture of a Westminster, W.B.D,

An intoxicated driver who was allegedly speeding along the Cornelia Ida Public Road WCD shortly before midnight yesterday, is presently at the Woodlands Hospital in a stable condition, whilst two of three occupants of the vehicle which collided with a fence and lamp pole, died; the other was treated and sent away, the police say.

Finally honouring a court decision, the New Building Society (NBS) yesterday afternoon wrote a $59,033,000 cheque to former manager Maurice Arjoon for pension owed, after his lawyers attempted to levy on the assets of the bank, which then locked the doors of its Avenue of the Republic headquarters with customers and others inside.

A Diamond resident was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with the death of Ishwar Ramanah, the Kaneville machine operator who was fatally shot during a robbery at his home last month.

A Sisters Village shop owner and his wife were seriously injured on Monday evening when they were attacked by cutlass-wielding bandits, who robbed them of the day’s sales.

Although the Government of Guyana has paid more than $26 million for the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the education system, its final report has not been submitted after nearly two years.

Two children were rescued on Monday night by a neighbour after a fire ripped through the top flat of their home at Unity, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara.