Guyana News

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.

Ten out of 212 indigenous communities have thus far collected their Jubilee grants, a release from GINA yesterday said.

US Ambassador Perry Holloway recently met with Guyanese entrepreneur, Triston Thompson who recently participated in the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) in the United States.

The draft National Tourism Policy (NTP) which is being perused by the relevant stakeholders will soon become a public document.

A business relationship that deteriorated has resulted in a Haslington resident being slapped with a damage to property charge.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs today announced that approval was received from the United States for the appointment of Dr Riyad Insanally as Guyana’s new Ambassador.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Sir Viv Richards, one of cricket’s finest ever captains, has thrown his support behind Twenty20 skipper Darren Sammy in his decision to slam the West Indies Cricket Board for their lack of support for the squad during the recent Twenty20 World Cup in India.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, has urged the West Indies Cricket Board to implement the most crucial reform aspect of the Patterson Report.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) yesterday seized two vehicles belonging to the Chinese company, Baishanlin from its Providence, East Bank Demerara office.

A Providence man was yesterday charged with murdering a Cuban national who was killed a short while after disembarking a ship that docked in the country.