Guyana News

Police are now investigating the theft of nearly all the materials from the dismantled building that housed the Aurora Nursery, Primary and Secondary schools and Region Two Regional Executive Officer (REO) Rupert Hopkinson has blamed the situation on a “culture of dishonesty” in the region.

A Chateau Margot weeder was yesterday charged with assault and threatening behaviour after he allegedly battered his wife and then threatened to kill her while wielding a cutlass.

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo on Sunday announced that the Linden to Lethem road is to be paved, a Ministry of the Presidency statement said.

The trial of 39-year-old Andre Hetsberger, who is accused of raping a 13-year-old girl, will commence tomorrow morning before Justice Navindra Singh and a 12-member jury at the High Court in Georgetown.

The March 18 local government elections in constituency four of Georgetown will see representatives from the two major parties battling with a candidate from a voluntary group and an individual and all are keen on more street lights for their communities.

A man accused of carnally knowing a 14-year-old girl was yesterday acquitted of the indictment after a jury unanimously found him not guilty of committing the act.

A Guyana Gold Board lab technician has been charged with stealing $2.1M in gold from the entity.

The police are seeking the assistance of the public in locating two men who are wanted in relation to investigations being done into the murders of two different men in the interior.

Police have issued a wanted bulletin for Kidron Junior Waldron who is being sought for questioning in relation to trafficking of narcotics on February 2, 2016 at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.

“I wasn’t in my right senses,” a convict yesterday told a city court after he was charged with escaping from police.

An ex-convict yesterday found himself back before a court to answer a robbery charge.

The owner of Kumar’s Variety Store of 69 De Willem, West Coast Demerara was yesterday robbed of $500,000 after leaving the Citizens Bank at Parika, East Bank Essequibo around mid-day.

The Children’s Costume Parade saw enthusiasm and flair when 60 participants, competing in six categories, feted their way through the streets to the National Park last Saturday.

The discovery of four marijuana plants at a Grove, East Bank Demerara house has led to two of the residents being charged in a city court with cultivating a prohibited plant.

A Berbice mechanic was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with threatening to kill a woman and having an unlicensed gun and ammunition in his possession.

  The disappearance of a magic mat has landed a young Lethem man behind bars on a simple larceny charge.

A Mon Repos man, accused of wounding a man with a knife after a dispute, was yesterday placed on $80,000 bail after denying the charge.

The Caribbean Community (Caricom) is mounting an electoral observer mission to monitor the general elections to be held in Jamaica on Thursday.

President David Granger was officially indicted as patron of the Guyana Red Cross Society (GRCS) at the organisation’s Tea Party and Fashion Show held on the State House Lawns on Sunday.

The names of persons selected to make up the interim civic component of the tri-partite mechanism intended to manage the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) are to be announced by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, the Guyana Policy Forum has said.