Guyana News

As police investigations continue into the fatal shooting of promoter Trevor Rose, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said yesterday that sleuths are pursuing two persons.

The Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) and the Auditor General’s Office are in disagreement over a $500,000 advance which the Audit Office says was taken in 2006, never utilised, and eventually destroyed in a fire in the same year.

Days after being charged with armed robbery, a teenager was yesterday arraigned for the murder of Pegasus Hotel taxi-driver Rudranauth Jeeboo, whose body was dumped in Cane View Avenue last Decem-ber.

Faced with three charges, including the murder of a policeman, Steve Bacchus was remanded to prison after he made his first appearance in court yesterday.

A Port Kaituma man was yesterday released on $100,000 bail after denying that he stole a car that was being rented by a policeman.

Dellon Hutson, who was remanded to prison on a drug trafficking charge, was shot during a confrontation with a police rank during a raid at his house but still managed to escape, a court heard yesterday.

The 25th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Governments of Caricom will be centred on the lack of private sector involvement, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett.

The Inter-American Deve-lopment Bank (IDB) is looking to fund further studies relating to the Amaila Falls Hydroelectric Project (AFHP) but whether it would still provide further financing for the project itself is open to question as under a new policy, the United States will be required to vote against multilateral funding for large-scale hydroelectric projects in developing countries.

A woman and her two-year-old daughter were yesterday rushed to Georgetown Public Hospital after they fell into an open manhole outside the KFC in the Stabroek Market area.

Murder accused Parsram Lalchand called ‘Desmond’, who was on retrial for the murder of Niranjan (only name) in 2008 was yesterday found not guilty.

The Sectoral Committee on Natural Resources will not pursue disciplinary measures against Natural Resources Minister Robert Persaud over his neglect to reveal the granting of a permit to Muri Brasil Ventures Inc for surveying in the New River Triangle area.

Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett has ordered a full investigation of the Guyana Consulate in Boa Vista, Brazil after receiving a letter citing various irregularities involving property and assets.

A jury was yesterday empanelled before Justice Franklyn Holder to preside over the murder trial of Satnarine Jaikarran along with his two nephews Neville and Randy Crawford.

A batch of 30 health care workers who completed six weeks of training in basic Information Technology, graduated on Wednesday at a ceremony held at the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre.

Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA), retired chancellor of the judiciary Cecil Kennard says he should be finished with the file on the Colwyn Harding baton sodomy matter by tomorrow the latest.

An Albouystown resident was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment yesterday after pleading guilty to simple larceny.

A Linden miner, facing a simple larceny charge for a second time, was remanded to prison when he appeared in the city courts yesterday on a charge that he stole a motorcycle.

Dunston La Fleur, who was shot by a Rural Constable during what is suspected to have been the attempted robbery of an Annandale, East Coast Demerara home last month, is slowly recovery at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Public Works Minister Robeson Benn says that he expects permanent sea defence works at Mosquito Hall, East Coast Demerara to commence in early March, even as residents continue to feel threatened by the sea.

The compound of the Anna Catherina Nursery School was weeded and cleaned over the weekend after two snakes were found there last week.