Guyana News

The People’s National Congress Reform today announced the passing of longstanding executive member and former Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Deborah Backer.

Verification of Guyana’s deforestation figures for 2012 has confirmed a rate of 0.079%, a figure at which cuts in payments to Guyana under the forests protection partnership with Norway are expected to kick in.

Businessman Rondy Jagdeo, accused of killing his close friend Kirk Davis on September 3, 2013 had his matter dismissed yesterday after a no-case submission was upheld by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry following the no show of key witnesses.

Public Works Minister Robeson Benn yesterday officially launched the US$34.2M West Coast Demerara road project which aims to increase efficiency and safety along the 30.7km-long stretch of roadway from Vreed-en-Hoop to Hydronie.

By Kenesha Fraser A meeting yesterday at the Anna Regina Town Hall, between Essequibo rice farmers and Minister of Agriculture, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, ended with the still disgruntled farmers who had requested the meeting, accusing the government of not keeping promises made and favouring a failing sugar industry.

A report relating to Minister Ashni Singh’s car accident on February 23 which was published in the March 1 edition of Stabroek News carried the headline ‘Special protocol followed when senior gov’t officials involved in traffic accidents  -Crime Chief.’

A domestic abuse incident left three people injured and seeking medical attention at the Georgetown Public Hospital on Wednesday evening.

A Sophia man facing 12 charges, including robbing former Assistant Commissioner of Police Clinton Conway and his family of more than half a million dollars in articles, was yesterday remanded to prison after the prosecutor raised objections to bail.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has hit out at a Stabroek News editorial saying it was a brazen attempt by the newspaper to tarnish the character and successes of the former Bharrat Jagdeo administration.

William Light, who was charged with the murder of two people after a chopping rampage on Russell Street in 2010 was yesterday sentenced to 47 years in prison by Justice Navindra Singh in the High Court.

The Guyana Rice Deve-lopment Board (GRDB) is expected to release new varieties of rice soon and continues to work on others such as salt-tolerant rice plants.

Justice William Ramlal yesterday sentenced Eddie Williams to seven years in prison for the November 2010 stabbing to death of his aunt’s boyfriend at Ruimzight, West Coast Demerara.

Juliana Nicholas, a serving member of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) for 13 years, was yesterday released on bail after she denied that she uttered a forged document to gain credit from the Police Consumers’ Society.

Akeem Roberts was yesterday sentenced to ten years in prison by Justice Navindra Singh in the High Court for the 2012 stabbing death of a St George’s Community High School student at a city lessons venue.

By Jeff Trotman Verley Etheline Bellamy is satisfied with her life.

A police constable is currently hospitalized after he was shot in his right foot by another rank who was clearing his gun.

Ivor Williams, 32, one of the passengers of the plane that crashed in Arau on Tuesday morning, is still in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

A 33-year-old man employed at Noble House Seafoods was yesterday shot once to the abdomen and robbed of over half a million dollars as he was making his way from the bank to his workplace.

The Port Kaituma One Mile Church which saw its flooring collapse during the funeral of the five members of the La Cruz family who perished in last Friday’s fire needs rebuilding help.

Spice processing equipment will soon be installed at Hosororo in Region One to process turmeric.