Guyana News

There was no word from the police yesterday as to whether the Office of Professional Responsibi-lity (OPR) had managed to complete its investigations into the alleged baton rape and  beating of Colwyn Harding.

Yesterday morning, the Police say they conducted an operation within Diamond and Providence, EBD; and Ruimveldt and Tucville, Georgetown in which arrests were made and an unlicensed gun found.

A Mario’s Pizza delivery man yesterday died after the motorcycle he was riding crashed head-on into a concrete wall.

Taxi-driver Leron Griffith was yesterday found guilty of causing the death of Chinese restaurateur Feng Xue Fang and was sentenced to 60 months in prison.

Even as uncertainty continues to hover over the industry, the Guyana Sugar Corporation has pushed back the start of the first crop to February.

A man accused of threatening and slapping his wife after she refused to have sex with him was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment when he pleaded guilty to two charges at the city courts yesterday.

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) is seeking the public’s help to locate a city resident, Robin Llewlyn Wills.

The Canadian firm Reunion Gold Corporation, which has a manganese mining project in Matthews Ridge, Region One, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Energy Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago to explore the possibility of building a manganese processing plant there.

Although its crew was left shaken and extensive damage was done to the navigation and radio equipment during an attack by several armed men at Sand Hills, the MT Seven Mako is expected to leave for Grenada tomorrow, according to Jaime Ramroop, the local agent for Coastal Shipping.

Suspicion is growing over the circumstances surrounding the sinking of the cargo boat ‘Stollie 1,’ which went down between the entrances of the Pomeroon and Waini rivers last Saturday, after some of the cargo was found on a rescuer’s boat.

Among the issues that the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce and the United Minibus Union (UMU) agreed to at their meeting on last Saturday, was an immediate reduction in the fares for Zone 32 (Georgetown to Parika), with all short drops being reduced from $100 to $80; and Georgetown to Parika from $500 to $400.

Two weeks after five-year-old Tiffany Seepersaud was struck down on the Woodley Park, West Coast Berbice road she has still not regained consciousness.

A woman was fined and placed on bail yesterday after answering three charges in a Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, including throwing bricks at her neighbours.

The Food and Drug Department is advising the public that a fake 10kg bucket of Golden Cream Margarine is being sold on the market in regions Five and Six.

The government’s apparent reluctance to boost development in Region 10 is politically-motivated, according to APNU leader David Granger, who says there is need for a new development plan for the region.

The late Terry Holder was memorialized as the best Secretary General of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) and a man who agonized over the falling standards here in broadcasting and other areas of national life.

A major Islamic conference will be held at the Guyana International Conference Centre from February 9-12, 2014.

Four months after its launch, the ‘Weight No More – Fit It!’

The Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) distributed nine hampers to the relatives of persons who perished in boat accidents last year, even as it continues its nationwide safety promotion to help to stem these incidents.

Ten Venezuelan nationals were yesterday fined $30,000 each with the alternative of two weeks’ imprisonment for entering Guyana illegally.