Guyana News

Four men, who allegedly robbed a Brazilian national and a taxi driver in an attack at Oleander Gardens, East Coast Demerara, on Friday, have been arrested.

Narinie Gopaul, the sales clerk who was allegedly mutilated a week ago by a man whose advances she had rebuffed, is no longer in intensive care at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Both the management of the Massy Stores Supermarket at Providence and the police have denied a recent claim by the United States Embassy of an increase in robberies in the supermarket’s parking lot.

Regional Executive Officer of Region Five, Ovid Morrison has called on a Bagotville, West Bank Demerara contractor to remove rejected furniture from the region’s compound at Fort Wellington, West Coast Berbice.

Although due to return to work yesterday after four months of vacation leave, Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud has been given a directive to proceed on indefinite “special leave” in the public interest.

The Ministry of Education has concluded its investigations into the allegations of sexual predation against Bishops’ High School teacher Coen Jackson and the case has since been handed over to the Guyana Police Force.

Longtime Working People’s Alliance (WPA) activist Desmond Trotman, 71, was yesterday sworn in as the newest member of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) amidst criticism by governing coalition partner the Alliance for Change (AFC), which said it expected that the appointee would have been either a woman or a youth as it had proposed.

A toddler was killed yesterday morning after he was reportedly crushed to death by a minibus, which his father was reversing out of their yard in Newtown, Kitty.

A Guyanese woman is now clinging to life in a hospital in Tortola, British Virgin Islands (BVI), following an attack by gunmen that claimed the life of two people, including her 11-year-old daughter.

A section of State House, a national monument, is being repaired and repainted by government but no permission was sought from the National Trust of Guyana, which has overall responsibility for such sites.

The University of Guyana’s inaugural Oil and Gas stakeholders’ symposium yesterday heard Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman call for the enhancing of critical skills that can be transferred to all sectors in the country and he also said that a national petroleum company will be set up.

The government last evening opened an agricultural exhibition in Region Four and the Minister of Business imploring that farmers be helped so that the country’s US$200 million food import bill can be slashed.

The Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence last week acknowledged that the district and regional hospitals are not operating at full capacity, and has since announced that two district hospitals will be upgraded to regional status.

More than two months after being handed a draft anti-corruption work plan by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) advisor David Robinson, government is yet to decide on the way forward.

Mark Louchee, the suspect in the 14-year-old murder of Collis De Abreu, who was shot and killed outside of the Blue Iguana night club, was finally charged with the crime yesterday.

The charge against APNU+AFC Region Ten Member of Parliament Jermaine Figueira for the offence of playing music at a public event without a permit has been dismissed.

Since taking office in May this year, Ombudsman Justice (rtd) Winston Patterson has received a total of 71 complaints.

  New Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for handling Trafficking in Persons (TIP) cases are expected to strengthen investigations and prosecutions, while ensuring the protection of victims, according to Minister of Social Protection Amna Ally.

Rajendra Persaud, the missing Newtown, Kitty man whose badly decomposed body was discovered at Brighton Village, Corentyne on Wednesday, died from ingesting a poisonous substance, an autopsy has found.

A 19-year-old labourer was yesterday placed on $50,000 bail after he denied stealing a phone from a child.