Guyana News

A woman accused of receiving two women in the North West for the purpose of prostitution was yesterday set $1M bail when she appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

In the wake of recent incidents with planes including crashes, aviation authorities will be stepping up surveillance of local airlines and their operations.

The Guyana Securities Council says the Directors of Guyana Stores Limited Ltd continue to flout regulations by neglecting to submit its accounts to the relevant stakeholders, and it said  that the retention of office by the said Directors is therefore prejudicial to the interest of the company.

Former beauty queen Carolan Lynch was yesterday again charged with murdering her husband, a day after turning herself over to police.

Surinamese national Omar Williams was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court for the murder of former disc jockey (DJ) Sheldon Cheddie.

Members of the Lamaha Gardens Community Cooperative Society yesterday said that they have moved to the court in an effort to reclaim the Lamaha Gardens playground they said was sold illegally to a private businessman.

Caught trying to smuggle 25 songbirds out of the country by hiding them in hair curlers in his luggage, Nazeem Karim was yesterday fined and disqualified from obtaining an import and export licence Karim, of Lot 3 ‘C’ Clonbrook, had initially been brought before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on Monday and had been remanded to

A pump attendant was placed on $250,000 bail yesterday after she denied stealing over two million dollars’ worth of fuel and embezzling $48,000 from her employer.

Two families have been left homeless after a fire suspected to be electrical in origin completely destroyed a two-flat, three-bedroom house at D’ Edward Village, West Coast Berbice yesterday morning.

Rental charges are only a fraction of the financial burden placed on producers who use the National Cultural Centre (NCC), according to producer Gem Madhoo-Nascimento.

Magistrate Sunil Scarce on Tuesday at the Anna Regina Magistrates Court remanded two drivers to prison when they appeared before him charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

United States- based Guyanese professor of political science Dr. Ivelaw Griffith, who is also a specialist on Caribbean security issues, held a two-hour interactive session with Members of Parliament on crime in Guyana on Tuesday.

The man shot during a break-in at an Annandale family’s home on January 17, is on the road to recovery, in the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

A South Ruimveldt man was sentenced to a one-year prison term after a brief escape from the city magistrates’ courts lock-ups.

At about 1115h today, ranks of a police motor cycle Anti-Crime Patrol observed two men walking along Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown.

The Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) today announced that it is exploring the possibility of embarking on a pilot project in which automatic scanning and tabulation machines could be used in a future election.

Beverage giant Banks DIH registered an after-tax profit of $2.543b for last year, marginally down from the $2.558b figure from 2012.

Guyanese-born security specialist Dr Ivelaw Griffith says he supports the “selective decriminalisation” of marijuana as part of the overall strategy for responding to the wider drug threat facing the region.

The bodies of the two men who perished in Saturday’s crash of a Trans Guyana Airways (TGA) plane in the middle Mazaruni jungle were retrieved and brought to the city yesterday even as company officials expressed concern that the aircraft’s Emer-gency Locator Transmitter (ELT) was not triggered on impact.

The head of the Economic Review Committee, set up to chart a development plan for Region 10 under the agreement struck between the government and the regional administration, has stepped down.