Guyana News

Government assets worth $890,449 were stolen from the National School of Dance as a result of the neglect of guards from Strategic Action Security Service.

Guyana opened its first diplomatic mission on the African continent after a 23-year absence, with Ambassador Barbara Haley being appointed acting High Commissioner in Pretoria, South Africa.

Donna Taylor, who was found dead on Friday night with her throat slit and her hands tied behind her back in her yard at Agricola, died of shock and haemorrhage from multiple injuries.

With three convictions already behind him, Mark Singh yesterday earned himself a fourth stint in prison after pleading guilty to threatening to kill his wife.

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) has announced to the Guyanese public and the Muslim community that the month of Rabbi-uth-Thani 1435 AH started last Saturday February 1, 2014.

Executives of Earthmoving Company LUNA N.V. Of Suriname met today with the Natural Resources and the Environment Minister, Robert Persaud to discuss opportunities within the gold mining and bauxite sectors.

At about 0730h today, police say that the decomposing bodies of fishermen Sahadeo Bhagwandat, 47 years, and Ramdeo Sijogie, 46 years, both of Meten-Meer-Zorg, WCD, were found in a canal at De Kenderen, WCD.

The Ministry of Health should revisit the evaluation criteria set out in new prequalification documents in consultation with all potential suppliers of pharmaceuticals, former Auditor-General Anand Goolsarran says.

Construction is underway at the Memorial Gardens and Crematorium at the Le Repentir Cemetery in the city after the Environmental Protection Agency determined that no Environmental Impact Assessment was required.

During investigations into an armed robbery committed on Devanand Ramdial on January 31, 2014, at his residence at South Amelia’s Ward, Linden, the police arrested six men between Saturday and yesterday, a release from the police said.

The Ministry of Housing will soon begin constructing 1,000 homes at Perseverance, East Bank Demerara and is inviting interested workers and suppliers to apply to work and supply materials.

A Guyana Defence Force Private was still in custody up to press time being questioned following the brutal slaying of her ex boyfriend’s mother.

Former police commissioner Winston Felix says  there was no way ranks in Corentyne, Berbice could have been involved in an armed robbery as is being claimed as the only working vehicle they had at the time was at the No.

Government is close to introducing legislation to offer protection to buyers who use hire purchase agreements and especially those who have paid significant amounts towards their purchases but still have their purchases repossessed.

A&A General Store at D’Edward Village, West Berbice was robbed of over $1.5 million in electronics and cash early yesterday morning.

A car driven by an off-duty policeman crashed into a `B’ Field, Sophia fence yesterday afternoon sparking fears among residents that bandits were attacking.

Two interior workers were each granted $250,000 bail on Friday when they appeared before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts charged with stealing over $8 million in equipment from a Mahdia dredge operator.

A Kaieteur News security guard sustained a gunshot wound to his right shoulder early yesterday morning fending off two assailants.

The Pomeroon Women’s Agro-Processors Association of Region 2, secured the second place at the recently concluded Regional Entrepreneurship Awards Scheme sponsored by global consulting giant Accenture (UK).

After waiting for more than six months, the husband of maternal death victim Luann Rodney says he has lost hope that the Ministry of Health or the Georgetown Public Hospi-tal will contact him to give an update on the outcome of his wife’s case.