Guyana News

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – World tennis was rocked on Monday by allegations that the game’s authorities have failed to deal with widespread match-fixing, just as the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, kicked off in Melbourne.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Guyana Jaguars defeated CCC Marooners by five wickets in their final round of the Regional Super50 at Warner Park here today.

About 0010h. today, the police say that Surendra Nauth, 29 years; and his brother-in-law Totaram Bhola, 25 years, both of Albion Front, Corentyne, were involved in an argument at Williamsburg, Corentyne, with a man who had allegedly slashed a tyre of their motor vehicle.

The Traffic Department of the Guyana Police Force has completed its investigations into the high speed chase on December 30 last that ended in the deaths of three persons, including army intelligence officer Robert Pyle, according to Traffic Chief Dion Moore, who has signalled that legal advice is now being sought.

There is an air of quiet. Most houses are closed; their occupants are off at work and school.

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), the entity tied directly to oversight of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) and which is required to be operational under the anti-money laundering legislation, has been without a director since the end of last year.

Two teenage girls, one a 13-year-old who gave birth nine days ago and another a 12-year-old who is five months pregnant are presently receiving medical treatment after being removed from the Region 1 backdam by Members of the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO).

Thousands of acres of paddy across Regions two, three, five and six are under threat due to a lack of adequate water and full blown water rationing is on the agenda if the situation worsens.

The first sixteen days of 2016 recorded ten confirmed murder cases but because of the brutal and well-planned nature of some of those crimes and the fact that most occurred in one police division, it appeared as though that number had surpassed the total recorded for the same period last year.

Two youths, including a former murder accused, were on Friday charged with the murder of Anita Baichan, who burned to death in her home after it was set on fire by bandits two weeks ago.

Person’s complaining about the Guyana Election Commission’s Local Government Election (LGE) education programme are “seeking to whitewash their own deficiencies,” according to chairman of the election management body Dr Steve Surujbally.

Almost four months have passed since the launching of the Hinterland Employment Youth Service (HEYS) programme and the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs is determined to extend it to an additional 100 villages after the 2016 budget allocations are made.

If elected to the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC), Team Benschop is promising city vendors that under its tenure at there will be “no more big stick approach.”

Discussions on the way forward regarding the controversial Red House lease deal will continue shortly, according to Attorney General Basil Williams who says that he would not want to reveal too much now.

By Derry Etkins On December 2, 2015,   the Tina Insanally Foundation (TIF) hosted a concert in the Savannah Suite at the Pegasus Hotel.

The Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) yesterday announced the winners of the 2015 THAG Essay Competition.

The administrator of Uncle Eddie’s Home yesterday voiced her dissatisfaction over city contractors’ dumping of slush from a recent cleaning exercise on the premises, without permission.

Pastor Rohit Deonarine, who was chopped along with his wife Nirmala Deonarine during a robbery on Friday evening, says he believes their attackers were known to them.

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) and the Institute of Applied Science and Technology (IAST) on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will see collaboration in improving water quality and supply.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Indian business mogul Vijay Mallya says he is “studying the CPL economics” but has denied suggestions he is on the verge of purchasing Caribbean Premier League franchise Barbados Tridents.