Guyana News

After several complaints from vendors occupying the Parliament View Mall at Hadfield and Lombard streets earlier this week, Town Clerk Royston King yesterday paid a visit to the area to offer some relief to the vendors.

A man was yesterday remanded to prison after appearing in a city court to answer to two counts of armed robbery during which he allegedly stole over $500,000 in jewellery.

A Mahdia cook was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with fraudulently converting more than $2 million in raw gold to his own use.

Town Clerk Royston King yesterday denied any knowledge of $8 million gifted to the Global Friendships Foundation from the Chinese Embassy to aid in the restoration and enhancement of Georgetown.

Ganesh Gangadin, Mayor of Corriverton, during a recent interview with Stabroek News, disclosed that the Mayor and Town Council, following the state subvention under the Fiscal Transfers Act, has proposed a $15M project.

Multi-million dollar tenders were opened yesterday for rehabilitation works and living quarters for ten police stations.

Justice Navindra Singh yesterday empanelled a 12-member jury for the trial of two youths charged with the 2013 murder of seaman Antonio Isles who succumbed to injuries sustained after he was allegedly beaten by a group of persons at Pike Street.

Johnathan Ashby, the 12-year-old student of the Friendship Secondary School, who was struck down by a motorcycle a month ago, remains hospitalised but is slowly recovering.

United States-based charity, RAD-AID will be working with the Ministry of Public Health to develop Radiology Services here with the first major step being the introduction of a Radiology Residency Programme in September of this year.

A Route 41 minibus conductor was yesterday released on $50,000 bail after denying that he robbed another man of a phone while using violence.

Officials from the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the Linden Mayor and Town Council (LMTC) met with shop owners on June 2 to outline the legal requirements for carrying out their trade following the discovery that a considerable number of them are non-compliant.

With the people of his community at heart an overseas-based Guyanese recently opened a sewing establishment in Buxton.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) says it has delivered on its promise to install streetlights along the Diamond Access Road, East Bank Demerara and works have already started to extend the lighting project to Mocha.

Ensuring that historical sites are safeguarded for the benefit of  future generations, the National Trust of Guyana in partnership with World Monuments Fund, has organised the Georgetown International Heritage Conference.

Bandits struck at two businesses in Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice over the weekend carting off cash and other valuables and beating a restaurant owner.

A Sentinel Security officer is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was run over by a Toyota Hilux jeep.

 (Reuters) – Paceman Kagiso Rabada led a brilliant South Africa bowling display that lifted the Proteas to a 47-run win over Australia in the triangular one-day international series in Guyana on Tuesday.

CASTRIES, Saint Lucia,  (Reuters) – St. Lucia’s conservative United Workers Party beat the incumbent Labour Party with promises of tax cuts and the resolution of a scandal over killings by the police that have hurt the image of the Caribbean nation, general election results showed on Monday.

Relative to the investigation into the grenade attack at Kaieteur News on Saturday, detectives from the Guyana Police Force (GPF) after reviewing surveillance footage have detained a motor car matching the description and six suspects, the GPF said in a press release today.

City Hall has backtracked on a deal to allow one company to install parking meters in Georgetown and Astrolobe Technology, a firm which had inked a deal with the previous council but was left out under the new arrangement, will now be part of the project but the agreement still has to be signed.