Guyana News

An officer of the Probation & Social Services Department, Region Five was honoured and somewhat emotional at the send-off he received last Friday as he hung up his gloves.

  Acting Chancellor of the Judiciary Carl Singh today refused to say whether background checks were conducted on Rabi Sukul before his appointment to the Court of Appeal.

Justice Desiree Bernard (left) leading the way into today’s special sitting of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in honour of her retirement from the court.

Former long-serving Suriname Ambassador to Guyana, Manorma Soeknandan is the new Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat.

The Guyana Police Force is notifying the general public that the Central Immigration and Passport Office at Camp Road, Georgetown, will be closed for business on Tuesday February 25, 2014.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack yesterday denied that she made a plea bargain with an alleged accomplice in the 2008 Lusignan massacre but acknowledged that he had testified on behalf of the prosecution in the trial of two other accused men.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday made its first written ruling in Guyana, granting an application for special leave to appeal a criminal conviction.

At about 1800h. yesterday the police say that motor lorry GLL 8191 and an ATV collided along the trail at Falls Top, North West District.

Fatima Martin, the babysitter sentenced to five years in prison for assaulting an infant child, plans to appeal her sentence and to file complaints against her former employers for allegedly assaulting and threatening her after she confessed to the crime.

The body of 18-year-old excavator operator, Hassani David was found yesterday after he reportedly drowned on Saturday night when the boat he was travelling in capsized.

The trial of Junior Henry and Baldeo Seegobin, who were accused of the murder of US-based businessman Ricardo Henriques, ended yesterday with the two men walking free after a two-week-long voir dire.

Ronald Forde is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to a matter of rape which is under investigation, a police bulletin said yesterday.

Trinidadian conglomerate ANSA McAl and the locally-based New GPC are among seven companies which have submitted pre-qualification documents for the supply and delivery of billions of dollars worth of medical supplies for Guyana’s health sector.

The police at Charity, Essequibo Coast are conducting a search for a man who went down in the vicinity of Aberdeen, Lower Pomeroon River after a collision between two boats on Monday night.

A 21-year-old man who was shot in the groin by a gunman during a robbery bid yesterday morning at Ogle, is currently a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC).

This evening’s planned telecommunication conference with the CFATF on the vexed issue of the anti-money laundering bill will not take place as it is not on the agenda of this afternoon’s meeting of the parliamentary select committee looking at the legislation.

Strategic Action Security, whose owner is charged with receiving stolen property, is one of the firms that bid yesterday to provide security services for 28 Health Ministry locations.

Jermaine Maynard, the man accused of fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend Carlisa Matthews on Old Year’s night, was committed to stand trial in the High Court yesterday.

As investigations continue into the attempted murder of auto spares dealer Deokarran ‘Ram’ Sanasie, police are currently looking for a local man who may be able to tie up some loose ends in the investigations, a source close to the case said.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) on Wednesday met with a  delegation from APNU during which narco-terrorism and the drug trade were discussed.