Guyana News

The police say that at about 0100h today, Dinesh Harrylall, 20 years, of No.

A 30-year-old Soesdyke taxi driver and mother of two was yesterday morning found murdered behind the Jubilee Resort on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway and one man has since been taken into custody and has reportedly confessed to the crime.

Commentator Christopher Ram says an inquiry should be set up by President Donald Ramotar into the appointment of Justice of Appeal, Rabi Sukul who has been asked to resign after he was disbarred by the England and Wales Bar Council for drafting false grounds of appeal in a UK case.

A $350m bridge at Hope for the canal which will help to relieve flood pressure on the  East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) was commissioned on Saturday.

United States Ambassador Brent Hardt yesterday mounted a stout defence of a controversial  USAID-funded democracy project here and said it will not be put on hold despite the Guyana Government’s opposition to it.

By Desilon Daniels Kwasi ‘Ace’ Edmonson overthrew the reigning monarchy of Jumo Primo and earned himself the title of the tenth Carib Soca Monarch when the competition wrapped up early yesterday morning.

The flow of foreign currency through the Guyana market dropped significantly in 2013 and this coincided with a depreciation in the local currency versus the US$.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has extended solidarity to the Govern-ment and people of Venezuela over what it said appeared to be a “well orchestrated attempt by the opposition parties with backing from local and overseas reactionary groups to destabilize the democratically elected Maduro administration from office.”

Opposition Leader David Granger is not ready to discuss whether he will seek to be A Partnership for National Unity’s presidential candidate for the next elections but he does believe that he has been successful so far in keeping the coalition strong and unified.

Commander-in-Chief, President Donald Ramotar charged 15 GDF ensigns to define themselves by their conduct, at a ceremony held on Wednesday at Base Camp Ayanganna where they were formerly commissioned second lieutenants.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has called on the Guyana Prison Service to review how dietary products are supplied so as to avoid delivery delays.

  The A Division Community Policing Group has been divided into two sections and section two’s executives were sworn in recently.

A female taxi driver was early today found murdered at the back of a resort on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway hours after she went missing.

Justice Rabi Sukul has been disbarred from the United Kingdom Bar after it was discovered that he intentionally misled his client by drafting false grounds of appeal in a drugs related case and he has since been asked to immediately resign as a judge of Guyana’s Court of Appeal.

In the quiet farming community of Philippi on the Corentyne, Bertely Matheson, 70, was relaxing in a hammock in her yard when The World Beyond Georgetown dropped in.

Three functioning breathalyzer kits are inadequate for the police, Traffic Chief Superintendent Hugh Denhert has acknowledged, while stating that these much needed pieces of equipment are included in the force’s budget every year, but not procured.

The New Sococo Enterprise, a local producer and exporter of coconut milk and fruit juices, has once again been linked to the drug trade, following the revelation of a reported plot by United States and Italian crime syndicates to export hundreds of kilogrammes of cocaine from Guyana to Italy.

With some new mid-rise buildings sinking due to poor foundation works in Georgetown, the City Engineer’s Department has made it mandatory for geo-technical reports to be submitted before construction can take place.

“What you’re looking for is right in front of you,” Namvula said.

Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy last week revealed that the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) would be aiming to produce 216,000 tonnes of sugar this year but said that the figure was preliminary and likely to increase.