Guyana News

Two farmers, accused of stealing over $2 million in items, were yesterday granted bail by a city magistrate after proclaiming their innocence.

The police in Berbice have held a second suspect in connection with the robbery of the Number 79 cambio dealer Davendra Churaman, from whom bandits stole over $22 million in local and foreign currency last month.

Alfie Garraway, Janiel Howard and Leroy Williams, the three men accused of throwing a grenade outside the Kaieteur News offices, were today committed to stand trial for the crime.

A Board of Inquiry (BOI) into allegations of mismanagement and malpractices in the procurement of pharmaceuticals at the Ministry of Public Health has recommended the removal of current Permanent Secretary, Trevor Thomas and strongly recommended that the representative of a Trinidadian company be debarred from future tenders.

Three persons are now dead and three others including a foreign national are hospitalised following a head-on collision which occurred last evening along the Linden/Soesdyke High-way.

It is a travesty that during Guyana’s 50 years of independence, no woman lawyer was ever named a Senior Counsel (SC), President David Granger said yesterday, moments after presenting Instruments of Appointment to eight of the nine legal practitioners, who he recently elevated to this status.

A Corentyne man attached to the Guyana Power and Light Inc.

The Cheddi Jagan Research Centre Inc (CJRCI) has expressed gratitude to the public for the support it has received over the planned revocation by the government of its Red House lease and said it is optimistic that it has a strong legal case.

A pork knocker yesterday appeared before a city Magistrate charged with the murder of a Brazilian who was lured to his mining operation located at Chinese Creek Backdam, Mazaruni River, where he was attacked and chopped to death by a group of five men.

President David Granger yesterday confirmed that he was in possession of a list of judicial nominees to fill four positions and said that an announcement will be made when the time is right.

Police Corporal, Osmund Paul, who survived the 2008 deadly attack at Bartica, in which 12 persons were killed, including three of his colleagues, yesterday recounted the incident to Justice Roxane George SC and a jury.

Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson says that the Government of Guyana will make a pronouncement this month on the recommendations of the Norconsult report which has come down heavily in favour of continuing with the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP).

A twenty-four-year-old Guyanese woman was yesterday arrested following the discovery of 10 pounds of cocaine in her suitcases while she was waiting to board a flight destined for Antigua at the Eugene F.

China’s new ambassador to Guyana, Cui Jianchun was yesterday accredited during a ceremony at State House.

The investigation into last Friday’s fire at Vigilance, East Coast Demerara which claimed the life of three-year-old Bianka Sancho has been completed and the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) has determined that the blaze was caused by an illegal power connection.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday defended Guyana’s vote against a UN resolution on funding for a gay rights envoy arguing that the mandate of the office lacked specificity among other reasons.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) says the cabinet reshuffle by President David Granger  is cosmetic and meant to be  a diversion from the current controversy over the government’s revoking of the lease to Red House held by the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre Inc.

Convicted drug trafficker Dennis Jones yesterday found himself back before a city court, where he was charged with trafficking 10 grammes of cocaine and forging an identification card.

The Mayor and City Council of Georgetown (M&CC) will be presenting its annual Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure to the people of Georgetown by the end of January 2017.

The police in B Division are continuing the hunt for Shamar Mohammed Ally, the man who is accused of chopping his ex-girlfriend and her mother, at  Number 70 Village, Corentyne, on Christmas Eve.