Guyana News

Guyana and Haiti are projected to have the highest rates of growth this year in the Caribbean,  according to the United Nations World Economic Situation and Prospects 2014 (WESP) report.

A Port-Mortem Examina-tion (PME) is expected to be done today on the body of 21-year-old Jasmine Norton who died following an accident on the Sosedyke/Linden Highway on Sunday night.

The suspect in the murder of 20-year-old Dinesh ‘Kevin’ Harrylall at D’ Edward, West Bank Berbice on Sunday night remains in custody as investigations continue.

A former clerk attached to a city drug store was yesterday accused of embezzling over $1M from his former employer.

A pork knocker is now on $100,000 bail after denying that he wounded a woman at Salbora Backdam, at Mahdia.

Guyana’s newly appointed Ombudsman,  Justice Winston Moore on Monday met with a delegation from the European Union (EU) and heard that it was prepared to offer help to his office.

The five suspects who were taken into custody over the murder of security guard Kenneth Khanai were on Sunday released on station bail.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) is urging vendors and other persons desirous of having temporary electric supply along the Mash route to contact its Main Street office to prepay for this service.

A Barbadian man is now in prison after he was refused bail in a city court on a charge that he wounded a minibus driver after an accident.

A Lodge man, accused of robbing a Chinese national of $250,000 in cash and kind and attempting to rob another, was refused bail yesterday.

The lives of five ailing residents of Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice and other communities were made easier when the Rotary Club of New Amsterdam (RCNA) presented them with wheelchairs.

A 20 year old man is presently hospitalized following an accident on Homestretch Avenue last night around 10:00pm.

Dr William Adu-Krow, the new designated representative of the Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO) on Monday presented his Letters of Credence to Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett.

THE Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) has called for political parties represented in the National Assembly to pass the Anti-Money Laundering/Countering of the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) (Amendment) Bill.

At about 2130h. last night, two boats collided in the Lower Pomeroon River and a man known as “Blacker” of Grant Phoenix Park, Lower Pomeroon, is reported missing and is believed to have drowned.

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

The Ministry of Public Works and the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) lowered the threat level from high to moderate on February 15, 2014, the Ministry of Public Works said today.

A young carpenter of Woodley Park, West Coast Berbice was murdered at a friend’s home at D’ Edward Village on Sunday night but claims by the friend that they were the victims of robbers are being treated with suspicion.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), sitting for the first time in Guyana, yesterday heard arguments on an application for special leave to appeal a criminal conviction and will give its ruling later.

Prior to being disbarred by the Bar Council of England and Wales, Justice Rabi Sukul would have known that he was being investigated, an officer involved in the investigation has said.