Guyana News

Another fatal accident occurred yesterday at about 23:20 hrs on the No.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Following is the full report and recommendations of the governance review panel which was appointed by CARICOM’s Prime Ministerial Committee on Cricket.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) today called on Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan to rethink his 2 am curfew for bars and night clubs arguing that these businesses are now faced with closure and downsizing.

The couple found dead at the Kingston seawall on Monday have been identified as teenagers Kavita Ackloo and Ramesh Beharry, whose families were yesterday at a loss as to why they apparently took their own lives.

A mother of seven and a teenage boy are dead, while three other persons are nursing serious injuries after a car crashed into a fence at Number 46 Village, Corentyne yesterday morning.

At least three America Street moneychangers were robbed last evening when they were ambushed by gunmen on motorbikes.

During his term, former president Donald Ramotar rejected the idea of a channel through Guyana’s Atlantic waters as a means of settling the long-running border controversy with Venezuela and says that his predecessor Bharrat Jagdeo should not have voiced that option.

A second man was yesterday charged with the murder of East Ruimveldt resident Senassie Lewis, who was gunned down in September in front of the popular Ghetto Flex nightspot in Albouystown.

Former President Donald Ramotar has rejected perceptions that he was a figurehead office-holder with his predecessor Bharrat Jagdeo running the country from behind the scenes.

The APNU+AFC Govern-ment is considering importing a foreign auditor to examine the works of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA).

A man accused of trying to smuggle over four kilos of cocaine in his luggage at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri was remanded to prison yesterday.

The three unions representing sugar workers yesterday picketed GuySuCo’s head office at Ogle to press their demand for the corporation to begin salary negotiations.

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) yesterday called on the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) to show evidence that it is the most representative trade union body as the two groups continued their war of words.

A group of civil society organisations yesterday welcomed government’s determination to press for a renewal of the forest protection partnership with Norway.

A voir dire is currently being conducted before Justice Navindra Singh as the trial of the quartet accuse of murdering 72-year-old Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris continued yesterday.

Firefighters yesterday managed to contain a fire in a partially-constructed building along Alexander Street, near the Bourda Market.

Two youths were yesterday refused bail after being charged with armed robbery.

The government will be focusing on guaranteeing that Neighbourhood Democratic Councils’ revenue bases are adequate to allow for financial independence and general autonomy in the management of their affairs.

The Leader of the Opposition and former President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo recently attended a meeting of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States’ Eminent Persons Group (EPG) in Brussels, Belgium.

Officer Richard Macbeth of Leonora Police Station is presently in the Accident and Emergency Depart-ment of the Georgetown Public Hospital.