Guyana News

The management of the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation (DHBC) is apologising to commuters for the extended opening of the bridge yesterday, GINA said, attributing this to work that was needed to prevent a section of the structure from  collapsing.

Work will begin in the first quarter of this year to install Public Internet Access Points (PIAPs) at public buildings, GINA said today.

Police during a search, early this morning of several apartments in Rasville, Georgetown, detained nine persons inclusive of three females, after they found sixteen live rounds of different calibres of ammunition and one hundred and eighty ecstasy pills.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said he would propose to President David Granger that they jointly approach the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to interpret the constitutional requirements for the appointment of a Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) chairperson.

Using his country’s experience as a model, former Minister of Energy of Trinidad and Tobago, Kevin Ramnarine yesterday urged that Guyana establish a national oil and gas company to manage its huge oil find but that it be insulated from political interference.

Six men yesterday carted off almost six million dollars from the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) office at Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara in a well-planned robbery.

Two families lost their homes after a midday fire at Cummings Lodge yesterday.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday issued an apology to the army for a post on his Facebook page that said the army was part of the team that broke the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre’s signboard at Red House.

Finance Minister Winston Jordan on Monday signed a US$45.3m concessional loan from the Exim-Import Bank of China for the widening of the Better Hope to Belfield section of the East Coast Demerara Highway.

Chinese-owned bauxite company Bosai Minerals (Guyana) Inc will be shipping 24,000 tonnes of bauxite through a transshipment station owned by Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.

Tiffany Peters, a former court clerk who was pardoned by President David Granger last year after she was convicted for stealing $3.2 million from the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts Registry, was yesterday faced with a new charge alleging that she also stole $1.1 million from the registry.

A man was assaulted by fellow detainees in the lock-ups of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday.

Almost a dozen cosmetologists yesterday showed up for work only to find that their workstations, along the Merriman Mall between Light and Cummings streets, had been demolished by City Hall.

An Albouystown woman told a court on Wednesday that she set ablaze and damaged her mother-in-law’s property, because her husband, the woman’s son was abusing her.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Kevin Stephens, the MMC Security Force guard who allegedly shot and killed his colleague Hubert Verwayne, has been set for February.

Assistant Commissioner of Police, Paul Williams on Wednesday testified to receiving forged documents belonging to Anjanie Boodnarine, the reputed wife of convicted drug lord Barry Dataram.

A minibus driver was on Wednesday charged with seven offences, including, the assault of a cop on duty, while his conductor was charged with obstructing the officer from carrying out his duties and the use of indecent language.

Berbice police have captured  two men who are accused of robbing the owners of the Good Life Supermarket, located in Hampshire Village, Corentyne on Tuesday.

Police Constable Chester Benjamin, who identified Roger Simon as being one of the gunmen at the scene of the deadly attack at Bartica in which 12 men were massacred in 2008, yesterday conceded that the first time he saw the man was in the lock-ups at the Mackenzie Police Station.

At least three times a month, cockfighting events are held at Friendship, East Bank Demerara, according to a resident.