Guyana News

NEW DELHI, India,  CMC- Cricket columnist Mark Nicholas has apologised to West Indies T20 captain Darren Sammy and his side for describing them as “short of brains” before the start of the T20 World Cup.

Transparency Institute Guyana Inc today said that the actions of Minister of State Joseph Harmon in relation to the employing and rewarding of supporters and donors constitutes corruption.

Better Hope goldsmith Richard Ramjit will today appear in court to answer charges in connection with his gold and silver jewellery which was seized by the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) in January at the airport.

A forty-four-year-old woman is currently battling for her life at a city hospital after she was stabbed about her body on Sunday evening by her husband who took his own life.

Two persons, including the daughter of Nonpareil pensioner Roger Manikam, were detained by the police yesterday on suspicions that they are linked to his murder, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said.

The governing APNU+AFC on Friday took all seven of the seats on the city’s key Finance Committee despite the nomination of a Team Legacy member who was backed by other groups elected to the council.

Seeking to pioneer new ground in the development of the small business sector, the Institute of Private Enterprise Development Limited (IPED) has set aside half a billion to support non-traditional agriculture, ventures by persons under 30 and the creative industries over the next two years.

Brazilian and Barbadian companies are among five bidders for rehabilitation work on the Moco-Moco Hydropower plant in Region Nine.

Four candidates, all of whom are Guyanese, have been shortlisted to be interviewed for the vacant post of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana (UG).

The University of Guyana Students’ Society (UGSS) yesterday staged a protest at the Turkeyen Campus to highlight poor conditions that they say continue to be ignored.

The Caribbean American Domestic Violence Awareness (CADVA) group is working towards creating a missing persons database.

Deputy Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels was once again accused by an inmate as being the authority who passed an instruction for the door to the burning Capital Division at the camp Street prison to be shut on March 3, when 17 prisoners died.

The Supreme Court has advertised for temporary magistrates in the wake of initiatives aimed at easing the backlog of cases and overcrowding in the prisons.

There have been no reports of piracy in the first quarter of the year and the police have credited this to the resuscitation of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Piracy and the Inter-Agency Maritime Surveillance Programme.

As police continue to investigate two murders they believe are linked and were committed as acts of reprisal during last week, they were yesterday granted an additional 72 hours to detain two of the four suspects who were arrested, while the other two have been released.

Red Thread Coordinator Karen de Souza is not surprised that alleged child molester Winston Harding enjoys the support of the residents of his constituency.

Keith Ferrier, one of the accused in the 2009 arson of the Ministry of Health building at Brickdam, was denied bail after making a new application yesterday.

A date was yesterday set for the start of the trial of Police Constable Tito Benons who was allegedly found recently with an unlicensed pistol and 15 rounds of ammunition.

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) has extended the date for investment proposals from the public.

An inquiry is to be conducted into the education system and members of the public are being invited to submit memoranda.