Guyana News

Two men who were being sought in relation to the gunning down of local fashion designer Trevor Rose were arrested over the weekend, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said yesterday.

The electricity supply to Port Kaituma has been restored but power outages are continuing approximately every hour.

Attorney Nigel Hughes has opted not to comment on the apparent incomplete purchasing arrangement made in 2006 with owner of Mae’s School saying that the matter is engaging the attention of court.

A woman, who is a key witness in a trafficking in persons (TIP) case, and her child have been missing since last year October and her relatives believe that she may be in danger as the last person she was seen in the company of was the person she is set to testify against.

Education Minister Priya Manickchand yesterday promised to investigate reports of students of the Santa Rosa Primary School are being forced to fetch water, while telling the National Assembly that it is the Local Government Ministry that is responsible for the day-to-day operations involving education in the regions.

A Laing Avenue woman now stands accused of drug trafficking after cocaine was found in her suitcase at the Ogle International Airport, where she was due to board flight to Barbados.

The Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) says that it rescued some 29 women and girls who were being trafficked in 2013 but that only a few cases reached the courts.

A 19-year-old Corentyne man was yesterday slapped with six robbery under arms charges when he appeared in the Whim Magistrate’s Court and was remanded to prison.

Commissioner of Information Charles Ramson, who was sworn-in last July, is being paid a salary of $1.2 million per month, according to Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, who also disclosed yesterday that there have been no applications received yet for information.

Guyanese born Winston Leslie Fitzgerald Phillips yesterday appeared in a Barbados court charged with having cocaine and cannabis aboard a cement boat that he was the captain of.

A Brazilian national, who police say robbed the same Lethem store twice in a month’s time, was remanded to prison after denying multiple charges of armed robbery yesterday.

Australian High Commis-sioner to Caricom Ross Tysoe (AO) urged 22 returning Caribbean scholarship holders from Australia to maintain their Australian and international networks as they take their place as future leaders in their areas of expertise, at an alumni workshop held on January 24 in Port-of-Span, Trinidad.

The file on the police’s investigation into the murder of Kwakwani miner Orin Ferreira is at the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud.

Guyana is seeking to increase its rice exports to Jamaica, after local paddy exports replaced US supplies last year.

Weeks after Stabroek News reported on a planned major investment by a Malaysian company questions have been raised about how the project was facilitated with key agencies seemingly being left out of the process and questions are soon to be asked in Parliament about it.

Transport Minister Robeson Benn made it known that both plain clothes and uniformed police officers will be the norm at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport until the government is satisfied that there is no longer an airline threat.

The three persons detained in connection with the alleged sexual molestation of a five-year-old girl have been released on station bail even as police on the West Demerara continue to probe whether it was also a case of child neglect.

The Marian Academy annual blood drive on Saturday secured 168 units of blood for the National Blood Transfusion Centre, a little below its record breaking 202 units last year but providing a not insignificant boost for the blood bank.

Dr Karen Cummings was sworn in as an APNU MP to replace Debra Backer this afternoon, while fellow coalition member Basil Williams was made Deputy Speaker.

The police said in a release today that at about 2000h last night, security guard Nicole Bobb, of Virginia Village, Cane Grove, ECD, informed the   police at the Cane Grove Police Station, by telephone, that a man was in the GT&T Compound at Cane Grove behaving in a disorderly manner and threatening her.