Guyana News

A 35-year-old construction worker from the East Coast of Demerara took his own life on Monday.

The Ministry of Business yesterday held a one-day training session for small scale business owners, GINA said.

Broadcaster and Editor-in-Chief of Capitol News, Enrico Woolford is a member of the Commonwealth Observer Mission for the January 22 general elections on the Pacific Ocean archipelago of Vanuatu.

A driver is in custody at the Parika Police Station for allegedly stealing an excavator belonging to BK Construction Company on Monday evening.

Floyd Beckles was on Tuesday remanded to prison on a charge of assaulting his ex-girlfriend after a city court heard that he had abused her on previous occasions.

Paula Waterman, the 4-year-old who was injured in an accident along Mandela Avenue on Tuesday continues to battle for her life in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

A man is in custody assisting with investigations into the murder of Brazilian national, Josimar Pereira Silva who was killed during a robbery in September, last year at Mowasi Backdam, Mahdia.

A Kingston labourer was remanded to prison after he pleaded not guilty to charges of armed robbery when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A labourer, who had initially denied a charge of breaking and entering, on Tuesday changed his plea and was fined $100,000 by a city court.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States is hunting down international criminals who launder money through real estate deals, with the Treasury Department ordering title insurance companies to report the identities of people paying cash for high-end properties in Miami and Manhattan.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Windward Islands Volcanoes defeated Guyana Jaguars by two wickets in their fourth round, Group B game of the Regional Super50 at Warner Park here today.

Former Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and current PPP/C Members of Parliament Gail Teixeira, Irfaan Ali and Nigel Dharamlall have been questioned by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) in relation to the findings of NICIL’s forensic audit.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has recommended murder charges for three suspects, including a former murder accused who was captured yesterday, in the deaths of elderly Bush Lot businessman Arthur Doodnauth Rajkumar and his common-law wife Diane Chamanlall.

Mohamed Chand, the husband of Land Court judge Nicola Pierre, yesterday recounted the violent home invasion that cost him his right eye and identified three of the five accused now on trial as the men who carried out the attack.

New York-based Guyanese doctor Kevin Lowe, 55, was on Monday jailed for 12 years in what the Manhattan US Attorney’s office said was one of the largest oxycodone diversion schemes ever dismantled.

The Ministry of Communities will be providing the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) with $100M to open a new cell at the Haags Bosch Sanitary Landfill.

After the formal opening of the Demerara Assizes yesterday, David Godfrey Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for the 2012 killing of his girlfriend Leonaka Natasha Johnson, whose body was found in a canal near her Nismes, West Bank Demerara home.

The Liana Cane furniture factory was reduced to ashes in a mysterious fire yesterday morning.

Colwyn Harding, who has accused police of raping him with a baton during his arrest, yesterday testified that he was repeatedly beaten while in custody at the Timehri Police Station for being disrespectful.

The United States deported 104 Guyanese from the country last year, according to statistics released by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).