Guyana News

On February 28, Moray House Trust (MHT) hosted an event where poet/writer Ras Michael Jeune traced the development of poetry in Guyana.

The Ministry of Education has announced that children born on or before June 30, 2011 are now eligible for placement at nursery school.

A short tempered labourer was sentenced to seven months in jail yesterday after he was found guilty of assaulting a vendor and damaging her spectacles.

An Uitvlugt man, who was allegedly caught with 374 grammes of cannabis during a stop and search by a river patrol at Aranka, was remanded to prison yesterday.

A rice farmer, who allegedly assaulted a police officer, found himself before Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Anna Regina Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday to answer that charge.

An abandoned apartment in the South Ruimveldt Shopping Plaza was on Monday morning mysteriously razed and residents of the area are suspecting arson as its cause.

The Mahaicony Hospital was admired and complimented for its “beautiful ambience” when a team from the Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Social Services visited last Friday.

A Kitty man, who was allegedly found with 19 grammes of cocaine at his house, was remanded to prison on Tuesday after he appeared in a city court.

A labourer was yesterday granted bail when he appeared in the Anna Regina Magistrate’s Court charged with unlawfully and maliciously wounding another man.

On the first UN World Wildlife Day, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment along with the regulatory agency, the Wildlife Management Authority signalled their continued commitment toward ensuring the protection of Guyana’s biodiversity, particularly the traded species.

The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) is hopeful that findings of the long overdue  Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the death of the late Dr Walter Rodney, will bring closure to a very painful and embarrassing episode in the national and political history.

Amid a blaze of green and shamrock leaves, the Head of Political, Press and Information, Delegation of the EU to Guyana, Derek Lambe and his wife Christina hosted a St Patrick’s Day celebration on Saturday at their New Haven residence.

Caricom is deeply concerned by the recent developments in Ukraine and calls on all parties involved, to act with self-restraint and responsibility in order to reduce tensions and avoid destabilisation in that region, a release from the Secretariat said yesterday.

At about 0630h today, the body of a 14- year- old male known as “Andy”, and who is reported to be of no fixed place of abode, was found on the roadway at Foulis, ECD.

Civil society organisations and western missions today again urged that all political parties work together for the staging of local government elections by August 1 this year.

The Lamaha Gardens playground which residents are engaged in a battle to retrieve after a controversial sale more than a year ago was undervalued by around $175M.

Dwane Williams, a former co-accused in the Lusignan massacre, was turned into a state witness because at the time of his arrest he was just 13-years-old, knew the inner workings of the Rondell ‘Fineman’ Rawlins gang and was the only eyewitness to the crime that police have been able to identify, sources say.

A mini-bus conductor was remanded to prison yesterday after he was arraigned for the almost three-year-old murder of elderly Robb Street pharmacist, Harold Rachpaul.

The Donald Ramotar administration is still not sold on APNU’s proposed amendments to anti-money laundering laws, which the main opposition argues are justified by the failure of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) to file more than a single report on suspicious activity in  five years.

Three families are now homeless after an early morning fire in Number 72 Village, Corentyne gutted their homes on Friday.