Guyana News

(Ministry of the Presidency photos) The nine recently elected mayors and their deputies were yesterday afternoon sworn in by President David Granger who said it was a happy day and a step forward for the country.

A man who was reportedly shot with an arrow, which he pulled out and used to stab and kill his alleged assailant, was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with unlawfully killing the said assailant.

Inmate Roy Jacobs, appeared before the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the Camp Street prison unrest once again yesterday, where he spoke on the “terrible” conditions of the prison.

Abina Parker, the cricket umpire who was stabbed on Sunday evening by her husband is recovering and is in stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The Ministry of Education yesterday said  that specimen papers were prepared and distributed prior to the commencement of the new term to all regions to familiarise pupils ​with​  the new layout of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA).

A caution statement given to the police by Dhupaul Singh, who is accused of fatally chopping Mahaica farmer Balkissoon in September, 2014, was read yesterday as the murder trial began before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow.

Over 35 bands are expected to be a part of the Costume and Float Parade on May 26 when Guyanese will celebrate the country’s 50th Independence Anniversary, according to Lennox Canterbury, Special Project Officer for the celebrations.

Three men are expected to appear in court today to face murder charges in relation to the killings of Lance Corporal Kevon Payne and Charlestown resident Gladstone “Tuffy” Taylor respectively.

A popular disc jockey (DJ) yesterday pleaded guilty to committing two traffic offences and was fined $60,000.

The police yesterday closed their investigations into the allegation against four persons in custody in relation to the murder of Roger Manikam and the case file is currently with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP)  awaiting legal advice.

Accused Premnauth Samaroo told the court that he was innocent, when the trial of five men charged with the robbery of Justice Nicola Pierre and her family continued yesterday.

Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan yesterday defended his decision to appoint the Mayor of Mabaruma declaring that the law allows him to make such a selection even as he dismissed as “inapplicable,” a clause that allows voters to directly elect a mayor in the event of a tied council vote.

A cane harvester accused of carrying out an armed robbery on a goldsmith and his 17-year-old son on Saturday last, yesterday appeared before Magistrate Rondell Weaver at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court and was remanded to prison.

The Alliance for Change (AFC) will take an independent position on both the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry Report and Minister of State Joe Harmon’s appointment of  Brian Tiwari as an advisor after discussing same at the executive level.

The electricity supply systems in four indigenous communities are to be extended.

The welder who had been hospitalised following a shooting on Regent Street on Thursday last during an attempted robbery has been discharged from the hospital.

Two soldiers are among four persons who were remanded to prison on Tuesday by a city magistrate after being charged with possession of marijuana for trafficking.

Junior Dowding, the security guard who claimed self-defence after he wounded a farmer, was on Tuesday charged in a city court and released on $120,000 bail.

Three men were fined and a woman had the charge against her dismissed after they appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday charged with stealing a $580,000 Yamaha engine.

A West Coast Berbice man was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail after he admitted to having 345 grammes of cocaine in his possession.