Guyana News

A West Coast Demerara resident who is accused of raping a mother of four was yesterday morning arrested by the police and is likely to be charged soon.

Flaws in the design for the Brickdam lock-up, which would have rendered it airless, have forced government to set aside money for remedial works, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan has said.

On the heels of a recent estimation that Guyana would have lost over half a billion dollars to Trinidad and Tobago to date because of its lack of onshore oil and gas services, Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman says government is swiftly building capacity to ensure that it can compete.

Government is set to soon commence engagement with Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo for the selection of a new Ombudsman, following the death of Justice Winston Moore last month.

The Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC), which will be closed for 18 months to facilitate repairs, generated $60 million in revenue from rental during 2015.

Consultations are currently being conducted to inform a feasibility study which may see a School of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation (SEBI) at the University of Guyana (UG) offering classes as early as next August.

Acting Police Commissioner David Ramnarine recently said that the police force’s statistics show with the exception of ‘D’ Division, gun robberies are on the decrease, contrary to public fears of an increase.

Kiev Chesney, a former sports reporter, was on Friday admitted to the bar before Justice James Bovell Drakes.

CARTAGENA, Colombia, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s fast-escalating political crisis and Colombia’s stuttering peace process dominated the Ibero-American Summit on Saturday, despite an official agenda about youth, entrepreneurship and education.

More than seventy farmers yesterday received land leases as the Mahaica Mahaicony Abary Agriculture Development Authority (MMA/ADA) hosted its annual open day, GINA said.

The suspect in the rape of a 28 year old female which occurred last Saturday and who was on the run, has been arrested, the police said.

The APNU+AFC government yesterday said that a special team is to be set up to ensure the prosecution of criminal offences connected to the sale of land at the ‘Pradoville 2’ scheme, where former President Bharrat Jagdeo and a string of current and former senior officials have houses.

Describing the crime situation as of “national concern,” the Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday called on the president and the government to not only publicly admit there is a problem but to send a strong signal to criminals that crime will not be tolerated.

Two persons are now dead after the minibus they were traveling in reportedly slammed into the back of a truck along the Linden-Soesdyke Highway last evening.

Members of the public are being invited to meet government ministers at the PNCR’s headquarters and party General Secretary Oscar Clarke sees no problem with the potential merging of state and party interests.

In the face of criticisms of the decision to temporarily convene Cabinet meetings at the Guyana Defence Force’s headquarters at Camp Ayanganna, State Minister Joseph Harmon yesterday defended the move, while reiterating the need for confidentiality.

Neil Boodram was yesterday sentenced to 15 years in jail for what Justice Roxane George called the “senseless killing” of Madan Kumar Sahadeo, which was fueled by “drunken foolishness.”

Vendors have been asked to temporarily remove from the Parliament View Mall to cater for a reorganisation but some are fearful that they will not be allowed to return.

The man who survived Thursday’s Sophia drive-by shooting, which claimed the life of his friend, has been discharged from the hospital.

A dredge owner, charged with killing another man at Agricola last year March, yesterday told a city court that he was beaten by the police to sign a confession.