Guyana News

By Dacia Whaul Lester ‘De Professor’ Charles, told ‘the truth’ on Friday night at Demerara Park, and the judges believed him; it earned him the 2014 Mashramani Adult Calypso crown and $600,000.

Power has been restored in Port Kaituma and consumers began receiving 24-hour electricity yesterday, this newspaper was reliability informed.

A close female relative of shot auto dealer Deokarran ‘Ram’ Sanasie was reportedly questioned about the shooting incident, following information gleaned from the injured man, a police source said yesterday.

Justice Desiree Bernard, who is set to retire as a judge in the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in the near future, has left a legacy locally, regionally and internationally not just as a woman in the judiciary but also as a tireless worker on women and gender equality issues.

A 13-year-old Enmore North boy was found hanging in his bedroom early yesterday morning and relatives are at a loss as to what might have caused him to take his life.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Barbados defeated Trinidad & Tobago by 17 runs to win the NAGICO Super50 Regional cricket tournament at the Queen’s Park Oval today.

It has come to the attention of the Office of the Chancellor that Justice Rabi Sukul , a Judge of the Court of Appeal of Guyana, was on February 3rd 2014, disbarred by the Bar Council of England and Wales.

Nearly eleven years after a landslide destroyed the Moco-Moco hydropower plant in Region Nine it seems unlikely that it will ever be rehabilitated.

The government yesterday confirmed that Guyana has gotten a reprieve over the non-passage of crucial anti-money laundering reforms while warning opposition parties that the legislation must be updated before the end of month when a progress report is due to regional body, the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF).

After being defrauded of more than $2.2 million by way of a bogus cheque it received, Caribbean Chemicals yesterday warned business owners to be alert and not fall victim to a “well organised” gang preying on businesses countrywide.

A rare 19th century stamp from British Guiana is expected to be sold for up to US$20 million when it is auctioned in New York in June.

By Dacia Whaul For motorists tired of traffic jams and long delays while travelling in the city, relief may soon be in sight.

The Government of Guyana yesterday expressed grave concern over the escalating political unrest in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, while saying the resulting loss of innocent life is regrettable.

A popular football coach was crushed to death by a truck yesterday morning on Mandela Avenue.

An eight-year-old boy from Supenaam Creek is now dead following an accident that occurred on the Good Hope Public Road, Essequibo Coast yesterday.       

A call for improved education for young girls was among a number of improvements mentioned when over 40 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) joined the international cry opposing violence against women at the One Billion Rising event yesterday.

Police are pursuing a line of investigation that security guard Kenneth Kanhai may have been shot dead because he was witness to a murder in which several persons have been committed to stand trial in the High Court.

The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) yesterday advertised a public hearing on February 20 on a complaint by a Digicel customer of being charged $1.20 for a voice prompt prior to an unanswered call going to voice mail.

An auto dealer was shot by a gunman last evening while drinking with several persons opposite his business place on Light Street, Alberttown.

A post-mortem examination conducted yesterday on the corpse of Jamaican Beverley Gardner, who was found dead in a city hotel last month, uncovered over 60 cocaine pellets in her stomach, police officials said yesterday.