Guyana News

The lawyer for New York-based Guyanese businessman, Ed Ahmad is seeking the deferral of his sentencing on fraud conspiracy charges to March of this year, according to court documents seen by Stabroek News.

President David Granger was yesterday paid a courtesy call by the Deputy Commander of the United States (US) Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), Lieutenant General Joseph DiSalvo at State House.

Barbers and cosmetologists who currently operate along the Merriman Mall between Cummings and Light streets are being removed from the area due to their failure to keep it clean, according to Mayor Patricia Chase-Green.

A Guyanese man on Tuesday was sentenced to three months in prison in Barbados, after he was found guilty of assaulting two women, including his former girlfriend, according to the online newspaper Barbados Today.

As the police continue to investigate a shooting incident which occurred inside the Tower Suites’ Club Privilege on Sunday morning, it has been discovered that one of the three suspects has overstayed in Guyana.

The city council is waiting on the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) to obtain the necessary funds to assist it with repairing the sinkhole that recently opened up on the seawall road, Kitty.

While vendors have been allowed to sell in open spaces around the Stabroek Market once more, Mayor Patricia Chase-Green says City Hall did not waste money by removing them from the Stabroek Square last year.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Colin Alleyne, the man accused of killing elderly Montrose caretaker Danrasie Ganesh, has been adjourned until next month, due to the final police witness being on 200 days’ leave.

Less than a month after the toddler and cancer patient Omkar Persaud travelled to Cuba for emergency surgery to prevent him from going completely blind, tests have revealed that the cancer in his eye has not spread to his right eye.

Technical assistance to the fisheries industry from China is on the agenda, according to a press release yesterday from the Ministry of Agriculture.

Former Director of Prisons, Welton Trotz, who was charged with sexually assaulting a prison guard, had the charge against him dismissed today for a lack of evidence.

President David Granger today said that Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo will be given the clarifications he has sought over the nominees to Chairmanship of the Guyana Elections Commission.

Eighteen-year-olds will be allowed to apply for house lots and once approved lots would be allocated when they turn 21, according to the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) end-of-year report.

A policeman was today charged with breaking into a house on Sunday and released on bail.

Following President David Granger’s rejection of his list of nominees to head the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom), Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday requested clarity on his interpretation of the criteria for the office holder and proposed an urgent meeting to resolve any differences they may have on the issue.

Today, the Government of Guyana is to sign a memorandum of understanding with University College of the Caribbean (UCC)/Law College of Americas (LCA) for the “establishment of a public private partnership law school” here.

After serving a little over three months as the Chief of Staff (COF) of the Guyana Defence Force, Brigadier George Lewis yesterday handed over the command to newly-promoted Brigadier Patrick West.

A 37-year-old labourer of Wine Bush, Leonora, West Coast Demerara was stabbed to death around 4 pm on Monday and his 16-year-old attacker is on the run.

Dwane Williams, called ‘Small Fren,’ yesterday further implicated murder accused Dennis Williams and Mark Royden Williams, as being part of the infamous Rondell “Fine Man” Rawlins gang, which he said was responsible for the February, 2008 Bartica massacre.

A pregnant 25-year-old Hopetown woman along with her child died on Monday night after the hire car she was travelling in hit a concrete fence at Cotton Tree Village, West Coast Demerara.