Guyana News

Maintaining his innocence up to the very end, a first-time offender was yesterday sentenced to a year in prison after being found guilty of breaking and entering a home and stealing hundreds of thousands’ worth of electrical items.

Sources have confirmed that APNU Member of Parliament and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Debra Backer has resigned from her posts due to illness.

The police say that at about 2045h last night, taxi-driver Dwayne Estwick of Diamond Housing Scheme, EBD, was attacked and robbed of his motor car at Kiskadee Drive, South Ruimveldt, by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun.

The private sector and the local anti-corruption group today issued a joint statement voicing support for the US leadership and democracy project and urging the political parties to expedite anti-money laundering legislation among other things.

Government on Tuesday once again concluded the work of the select committee responsible for the revision of  anti-money laundering legislation in the absence of opposition members, setting up a potential clash on the crucial bill when the National Assembly meets next week.

A report on the severe flogging of a pupil of the West Ruimveldt Primary School by the principal has recommended that disciplinary action be taken against her.

The Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) will soon begin interviewing four candidates shortlisted for the post of Chief Election Officer (CEO), including former Jamaican elections director Danville Walker.

Thirty-seven-year-old Lavena Williams-Todd of Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara was killed in an accident last night as she was on her way home from work.

Alleged drug lords and money launderers are openly flaunting extravagant lifestyles without fear of investigation under the PPP/C government, the PNCR charged yesterday in response to a scathing attack on the opposition by the ruling party’s General Secretary Clement Rohee on Monday.

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Private was yesterday charged with the murder of her boyfriend’s mother, who was found dead with her throat slit in her backyard at Agricola last Saturday.

A Norton Street caretaker was remanded to prison yesterday after being arraigned on a narcotics charge.

Chief Fire Officer Marlon Gentle has indicated that there are plans in the pipeline to build a fire station on the West Bank of Demerara.

A grocer has been remanded to prison over an alleged attempt to defraud another man in the sale of car.

The Guyana Sugar Corpo-ration (GuySuCo) is in talks with a Guatemalan sugar company looking to invest, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett.

The African Cultural & Development Association (ACDA) yesterday launch-ed its African History Month programme to commemorate Black History Month and this year’s celebrations will see an emphasis on the involvement of young people.

Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA), retired Chancellor Cecil Kennard has completed his review of the Colwyn Harding investigation and yesterday he sent the case file with his recommendations to the Crime Chief Seelall Persaud.

The re-trial of Satnanand Sahadeo, called ‘Boyo,’ continued yesterday before Justice William Ramlal in the High Court.

The Private Sector Com-mission (PSC) has asserted that investment in infrastructure is a necessary catalyst for more economic progress.

With recent burials obstructed by the flooding of the La Repentir Cemetery, Public Works Minister Robeson Benn says efforts are underway to fix the problem even as Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green maintains that the “sorry state of affairs” is because of central government’s obstruction.

The Private Sector Com-mission (PSC), Canadian High Commissioner Dr Nicole Giles and Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission Dr Steve Surujbally met last Thursday to discuss the possibilities of using an Automatic Ballot Scan and Tabulation Voting System in local and national elections.