Guyana News

Miner Godfrey Williams will be spending the next two years in jail after he was found guilty of unlawful firearm and ammunition possession.

Although government wants DNA testing to be a feature of the Guyana Forensic Laboratory, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan says it first needs to ensure the lab meets the required standards.

The police were up to late yesterday working to close the investigation into the murder of British teen Dominic Bernard and the case file is expected to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) today for advice on charges.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) and the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) will be working closely in a number of areas for 2016, a release from MPI said yesterday.

Japan will be providing assistance to improve the drainage of the capital city, Georgetown.

Almost a month has passed since bus driver Jermaine Barrow was fatally shot and the police are yet to apprehend the triggerman.

A four-year-old girl is currently battling for her life at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after the motorcycle she was travelling on crashed into a utility pole along Mandela Avenue yesterday afternoon.

A woman was yesterday placed on $200,000 bail after denying that she stole clothes and a gold bracelet from the car of a businessman.

The Ministry of Public Health, Vector Control Services has begun fogging for vector control in identified communities.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the state-owned National Communications Network, Molly Hassan this morning told Stabroek News that she had resigned from her post.

The Ministry of Natural Resources last night announced that it had solicited a legal opinion on concerns that the mining holdings of Simona Broomes conflicts with her role as minister in the ministry.

By Jonelle Fields The trial of the five men accused of robbing Justice Nicola Pierre and her husband began yesterday with the emotional testimony of the judge, who identified at least three of the men as being responsible during the violent attack at her home and also said that calls to the police went unanswered.

Efforts to re-accredit the University of Guyana Medical School (UGMS) have been given a boost by “a good corporate citizen,” who has pledged $200M to assist in the construction of a building to be used for student instruction.

By Dreylan Johnson Nearly six months after being charged, Regan Rodrigues was yesterday sentenced to three years imprisonment for escaping custody, but cleared of the gun and ammunition possession charge which linked him to the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing.

All of GuySuCo’s estates made losses for 2014, led by Skeldon with a whopping $4.2b, and this was likely one of the factors that pushed the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the corporation to recommend full privatization in three years.

Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan says that he prefers to await the outcome of a police investigation and Coroner’s Inquest before commenting on the involvement of an army rank in the recent bungled Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) operation that resulted in three deaths.

The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) is calling on President David Granger and the APNU+AFC Government to honour what it says were promises made by the coalition to ensure the protection of people from being marginalised because of their sexual orientation.

Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman and Minister in the Ministry, Simona Broomes visited Mahdia in Region Eight on Sunday and heard a range of complaints including about the poor state of roads in the mainly mining community.

A member of the gang that fatally chopped elderly Bush Lot businessman Arthur Doodnauth Rajkumar and his common-law wife Diane Chamanlall in their home last Saturday has also confessed to their involvement in the arson at Hope in which Anita Baichan burned to death.

At the request of the Education Ministry, Television Guyana (TVG) will continue to provide satellite uplink services for the Guyana Learning Channel (GLC) despite longstanding concerns that this contract was not necessary in the first place.