Guyana News

A young miner was yesterday remanded to prison on an armed robbery charge after a city court heard that he had been positively identified by the victim.

A porkknocker was on Monday granted his release on $200,000 bail after he denied having possession of almost three pounds of cannabis for trafficking.

WASHINGTON/CARACAS,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration is preparing sanctions against several senior Venezuelan government figures, U.S.

Port of Spain, 18 July, 2017. Caribbean Airlines advises that due to Tropical Storm Don and the consequent closure of the Maurice Bishop International Airport, Grenada, the following flights for today, Tuesday 18 July and tomorrow, Wednesday 19 July are cancelled: FLIGHT NUMBER SCHEDULED DATE AND DEPARTURE TIME ROUTING BW 448 Tuesday 18 July at 5:45 p.m.

President David Granger is to swear in four Puisne Judges and a Justice of Appeal tomorrow, the Ministry of the Presidency said today.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo last night said that the ruling of Justice Roxane George yesterday vindicates several positions he and his party have taken as it relates to the selection of a new Chairman of GECOM.

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George SC yesterday ruled that the list of nominees for the post of Guyana Elections Com-mission (Gecom) Chair does not have to include a judge, a former judge or a person qualified to be a judge and that the President must state reasons for rejecting any candidate.

Saying that former New Building Society (NBS) Manager Maurice Arjoon was “wrongfully dismissed,” Justice Brassington Reynolds yesterday found that he is entitled to recover all benefits that were lost as a result of the decision.

Orwin Peters, who was held in connection with the fatal shooting of bus driver Tedroy James, was yesterday charged with the murder.

Guyana’s team participating in the first Global Robotics Championship for high school students in Washington DC was in first place yesterday after three rounds, Co-founder of STEMGuyana Karen Abrams said yesterday.

There is ample evidence constituting probable cause that US-based Guyanese Marcus Brian Jainarine Bisram murdered Number 70 Village carpenter Faiyaz Narinedatt, according to a pretrial memorandum in support of his extradition filed in Magistrate Judge Peggy Kuo’s court by the prosecution.

Ranks of the Joint Services during an intelligence-led operation yesterday afternoon apprehended accused Trinidadian drug trafficker Cornelius Thomas, the second of six prisoners who escaped from the Georgetown Prison on July 9.

A 33-year-old vendor who died on Sunday evening after he was shot to his forehead at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) had earlier been threatened.

Some of the convicts at the Georgetown Prison were wearing civilian clothing and not prison uniform at the time of the July 9, fire and escape because the facility that was being set up to produce uniforms with identification numbers had been destroyed in last year’s fire, Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels has said.

Some 200 inmates were yesterday temporarily transferred to the newly constructed holding facility near the Lusignan Prison, according to a press release from the Department of Public Information (DPI).

The Region Eight administration was yesterday accused by members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of colluding with contractors in order to misappropriate funds under the guise of overpayments.

Residents of the northern end of the Essequibo coast continued to experience daily power outages up to yesterday as the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) said it was experiencing “challenges” in seeking to restore the electricity supply to the area.

Nearly six months after the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) proudly announced that it had rehabilitated over 300 fire hydrants in Georgetown, the public utility company is refusing to respond to questions about one hydrant it failed to fix outside the Camp Street jail.

The Deputy Permanent Secretary (DPS) of the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs yesterday found herself facing intense scrutiny over a $52 million transaction for the purchase of tractors, trailers, and other such equipment, without a written agreement.

Several vehicles were forced to wait for more than 30 minutes at the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) early yesterday morning after drivers found the gates inexplicably closed and the bridge company says it will investigate why there was such an inconvenience.