Guyana News

Yannick Shultz, the school boy who was struck down on Saturday afternoon, remains in the Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Russian language classes are to be launched today at the National Library in Georgetown at 5.30 pm.

The Government of Guyana this evening condemned statements made by former President Bharrat Jagdeo at an event in New York where he is reported to have said the APNU+AFC administration is engaged in an “assault on people of Indian origin”.

The United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigations concluded its 3-day financial and intelligence training in Guyana at the Guyana Police Force Officers’ Training Centre on Thursday, a release from the US Embassy said today.

Police yesterday arrested seven more persons in connection with last week’s shocking triple murder at Black Bush Polder including two prime suspects.

Four bandits carted off millions of dollars in cash and jewellery on Saturday night after holding the owner of Sanjay’s Jewellery at gunpoint at his Sheriff Street home.

An electrician died just after midnight yesterday after he was thrown out of the car he was in after the driver lost control and crashed into a fence at Diamond, East Bank Demerara.

Five persons to serve on the long-awaited Public Procurement Commission (PPC) have been selected and a report from the body responsible for the shortlisting, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will be presented to the National Assembly at next week Thursday’s sitting, sources say.

Four months after a controversial trip to China, there has been no favourable outcome on two major issues that Minister of State Joseph Harmon engaged in.

The El Niño dry weather has resulted in a drastic decline in rice cultivation this year, especially in Leguan and the Essequibo Coast and in the Mahaica, Mahaicony and Abary creeks.

Yet another statutory meeting of the Region Five Regional Democratic Council (RDC) was disrupted by APNU+AFC councillors last week and the new Regional Executive Officer (REO) Ovid Morrison has called on the leaders to be more responsible.

A Dutch team will begin work today to model the city’s drainage system as government implements recommendations to improve the drainage system.

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) executive has been reviewing the performance of the one-year-old APMU+AFC coalition government and admits that while all is not going as expected recommendations have been made to remedy that.

Region Ten councillor Charles Sampson on Thursday told a parliamentary committee that the bauxite industry is not receiving the attention it should and he also queried the quality of the ore being shipped out of the country.

An 18-year-old was chopped on the head on Friday morning by an individual who has since gone on the run.

The Lions Club of Demerara Lionesses last Sunday concluded its first “Lions Children’s Camp” which was held over a 3-day period starting on Friday, July 15.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – St Lucia Zouks defeated Guyana Amazon Warriors by nine wickets in the 23rd game of the Caribbean Premier League at the Darren Sammy National Stadium here today.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua,  CMC – West Indies’ batting collapsed for the second time in as many days as India crushed them by an innings and 92 runs inside four days in the opening Test here today, to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series.

Police yesterday detained two more persons as they continued to try to unravel the motive behind the gruesome shooting to death of two men and a teenage boy, whose bodies were discovered at Kokerite Savannah, Mibicuri Creek, on Friday.

Riverstown, a village on the Essequibo Coast, is pressed between Pomona and Airy Hall.