Guyana News

A businessman was abducted from his Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara (WCD) home yesterday morning but freed about an hour after when his captors realised that they had the wrong man.

Officials of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) have not been able to interview Winston Brassington in connection with the findings of a forensic audit into the management of government’s holding company, National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), which remains under investigation.

Stricken with poliomyelitis while still a toddler and confined to a wheelchair for the past 20-odd years, 57-year-old Pamela London’s life has been difficult, but domestic violence, ridicule and poverty have made it harsh and unfair on all fronts.

In light of the surfacing of a photograph of a mother breastfeeding her newborn under a bed in the maternal ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) last week, Public Health Minister Dr.

Guyanese singer, Mark Ferdinand who was held in New York in February, 2015 on a cocaine charge spent seven months in jail before being released after a court agreed that he be sentenced to time served.

Preparations are moving ahead in a New York court for the sentencing on April 25 of Guyana-born businessman Ed Ahmad for mortgage fraud conspiracy.

The three shortlisted Guyanese candidates for the vacant post of University of Guyana Vice-Chancellor are Professor Rory Fraser, Professor Stanford Griffith and Dr Ivelaw Griffith.

The body of Tactical Services Unit (TSU) Special Constable Akeem Hyles, who is feared drowned after the boat he was in capsized in the Amatuk Falls area, Potaro River on Friday, has not yet been recovered, while concern has been voiced over the fact that he was not wearing a lifejacket at the time of the mishap.

KOLKATA, India, CMC – All-rounder Carlos Brathwaite says his new-found Twenty20 fame has not thwarted his love for Test cricket, and hopes to fashion a successful career across all three formats of the game.

The Office of the Leader of the Opposition today called on the Guyana Elections Commission to take action over the electoral ties in six local government areas on March 18 which have seen the Minister of Communities deciding who would head the bodies and the opposition PPP/C moving to court over the mater.

President David Granger says an accusation of corruption by transparency group TIGI against Minister of State Joseph Harmon and the government over the appointment of advisors is “outrageous” but he did not shed much light on the raging controversy sparked by the revelation that businessman Brian Tiwari had been enlisted to provide advice to his administration.

Former High Commis-sioner of Guyana to Canada Harry Narine Nawbatt has filed a $49M lawsuit against the APNU+AFC government, saying that the terms of his contractual agreement with the PPP/C administration were breached.

A 22-year-old special constable attached to the Guyana Police Force (GPF) is feared drowned after the boat he was in capsized yesterday in the Amatuk Falls area, Potaro River.

Four years after being committed to stand trial at the High Court on a carnal knowledge charge, former Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) President Colwyn King walked out of court a free man yesterday after a jury found him not guilty.

A 17-year-old Guyanese girl, Kelly Hyles, has gained acceptance to 21 colleges across the United States, including all eight Ivy League universities.

Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson is appealing to loggers who use the larger of the two Kwakwani barges to bear with his ministry as the ministry is working to get the vessel up and running again soon.

Dennis Marks, the man who allegedly fatally stabbed Police Sergeant Leonard La Rose while resisting an attempt to arrest him in the North West District of Region One, was yesterday charged with his murder.

Troy Abrams, the surviving accused in last November’s armed attack on America Street moneychangers, was yesterday found guilty of robbing one of the men and he was sentenced to five years in prison.

A Guyanese man, Rajendra Ramrattan was held at the JFK Airport on Wednesday with 550.7 grammes of cocaine in a pair of jeans.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday accused government of reneging on a commitment to share leadership of the six local government councils that were equally split between the PPP/C and APNU+AFC but Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan said it was the PPP/C who refused to compromise.