Guyana News

Deneshwar Mahendranauth, the Assistant Superintendent who has been accused of sexually assaulting a female Constable, was yesterday charged and released on $100,000 bail by a city court.

Calvin Ramcharran will be spending the next 23 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of raping a 20-year-old girl, whom he also viciously beat during the act.

Public education remains crucial to tackling and controlling diabetes and needs to be disseminated across the nation.

US diplomatic cables in 1973 on the launch of the Guyana National Service (GNS) expressed reservations about it being sustainable.

Assistant Commissioner Leslie James and his family were robbed during the wee hours of Sunday morning, when armed bandits broke into their Sophia home and the attack has prompted former president Donald Ramotar to call for the deployment of the army to support the police in the crime fight.

Former government minister Robert Persaud’s seat on the PPP Executive Committee is vacant, the party’s General Secretary Clement Rohee said yesterday.

A request in 1978 by the Government of Guyana (GoG) to the US for the purchase of 14,500 tear gas grenades and projectiles raised concerns in Washington that this was not a routine transaction and reflected fears of unrest associated with the approaching referendum and declining economic conditions.

The People’s Progressive Party is yet to come to a decision as to how the salary increases its parliamentarians will not accept, are to be used, though its General Secretary Clement Rohee stated that a percentage of his salary was already being taken out and placed in a longstanding account.

The police yesterday began a criminal investigation into the transferral of millions of dollars from the PetroCaribe Fund into the personal accounts of Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Deputy Chief Executive Officer (DCEO) Aeshwar Deonarine and Board Director Carvil Duncan, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum has confirmed.

A Brazilian miner was on Sunday beaten by gunmen who invaded a mining camp at Puruni, Region Seven in what is believed to be an attempt to scare him and his brother off the land which has been the subject of a dispute for some time now.

Mark Major yesterday walked out of the High Court a free man after a 12-member jury found him not guilty of murdering his cousin.

A man is now dead after he was hit off of his bicycle along the East Bank Demerara highway on Sunday night.

Over six months after he accidentally shot a young woman during a visit to her home in Albouystown, Police Constable Dwayne Charles was charged yesterday.

Festus Hohenkirk, the Wortmanville handyman who had denied a charge of drug trafficking by claiming that he only had a “blunt,” was yesterday sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty of the crime.

At about 2330h. last night, police say that the body Errol Bowen, 23 years, of Better Hope, ECD, who is a shopkeeper at Bone Yard Backdam, Omai, was found with a gunshot wound to the back of his left ear.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 2130h.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 0645h.

The PPP today said that its MPs are expected to deposit their salary increases into an account in the name of the party.

In a formal sign of his separation from the party, the opposition PPP today declared that the Central Committee seat which had been occupied by leading member and former minister Robert Persaud had been declared vacant.