Guyana News

Josiah Baptiste, who pastors an Apostolic Church in the Timehri area, was yesterday sentenced to 18 years behind bars for the rape of a six-year-old girl.

Twenty-year-old Angelique Williams was yesterday afternoon sentenced to eight years in jail for the 2015 killing of her pregnant best friend, Lloyda Renita Thomas, whom she stabbed some 22 times.

A decision to temporarily grant Honduran airline Easy Sky permission to operate in local airspace has been made by the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), allowing Cuban nationals who were stranded at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) over the past few days to return home.

Former Attorney General Anil Nandlall was yesterday granted a conservatory order by the High Court restraining the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) from taking custody of the 15 law books that he says that the PPP/C government purchased for him.

The up-to-one-year transition period that could allow for Dr Clive Thomas and Aubrey Heath-Retemyer to act as Director and Deputy Director, respectively, at the State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA), allows for enough time to carry out political agendas, former attorney general and People’s Progressive Party executive, Anil Nandlall has said.

Vigorous and continuous efforts by the contractor Pooran Manman to fix the breach on a main dam at Charity, Essequibo Coast has resulted in the receding of over eighteen inches of floodwater which had lodged on the land on Monday night.

Residents of Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara were told on Sunday that they must be able to “put pressure on elected officials… to represent your interest.”

Two years after a vehicular accident claimed the life of his wife, Safraz Amir was yesterday charged with causing her death.

One day after this newspaper reported on a makeshift mechanic shop on the reserve in the Sandy Babb Street, Kitty area,  city workers yesterday swoop-ed down and cleared the area.

Charged only a month ago with a $26.3 million fraud, Clayton Alleyne found himself facing three more charges yesterday, when he was accused of defrauding three persons of over $1 million in total.

Scores of workers attached to the Rose Hall Estate, with the support of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), yesterday at 7 am  held a protest in front of the estate in Rose Hall, Canje.

A Diamond man was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail for cocaine and cannabis possession.

Although Chairman of the Foulis/Buxton Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) Deon Abrams says the Region Four Regional Democratic Coun-cil (RDC) is preventing development in the area, the accusation is being denied by the regional administration.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) is this week set to wrap up remedial works on turn-key homes that were provided by the former government to homeowners at Perseverance, East Bank Demerara.

Bids were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the Rehabilitation of Hinterland Roads, under the Ministry of Public Infrastructure.

Two Brazilians were robbed at gunpoint on Monday afternoon on Irving Street, Georgetown of an undisclosed amount of cash and jewellery.

The Police say they are investigating the murder of Mark Ifill a/k “Yankie”, 39 year, a labourer of no fixed place of abode, which occurred about 1030h.

Staff of the Deeds Registry of the Deeds and Commercial Registries Authority has called upon the Ministry of Legal Affairs to investigate their complaints of alleged improprieties committed by acting Registrar of Deeds Azeena Baksh, a release from the Ministry of Legal Affairs said today.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Timid West Indies failed to survive the anticipated final day onslaught from Pakistan and slumped to a seven-wicket defeat in the opening Test at Sabina Park here today.

GTT today announced that work is well underway to apply the latest generation of networking technologies and equipment to its broadband network.