Guyana News

(Barbados Nation) A Guyanese has been charged with a number of drug offences.

The Guyana-registered General Cargo Vessel ‘STOLLIE 1”, which was bound for Port Kaituma, North West District, sank between the entrance of the Pomeroon and Waini Rivers on Saturday and this is now being investigated by the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD).

Blake Slater and Dwayne Newton-Jacobs, the pilot and cargo handler from the Trans Guyana Airways (TGA) plane that crashed in the Middle Mazaruni jungle on Saturday, were confirmed dead yesterday and up to last evening soldiers were working to extract their bodies from the wreckage.

Gun toting men yesterday attacked an Antiguan registered vessel owned by Trinidadian shipping company, Coastal Shipping, damaging Global Positioning System (GPS), navigational and radio equipment and according to Dr Grantley Waldron who operates the sand mining concession where the attack occurred, it was a deliberate attack to immobilise the vessel.

City magistrates’ courts resumed operations yesterday at the refurbished complex along the Avenue of the Republic, which was reopened after an almost three-year-long closure for renovations.

Two more witnesses are supporting the allegations that Colwyn Harding was brutalised while in custody at the Timehri Police Station.

A spanking new post office is in the future for the Kitty community as its current building located at Alexander and Pike streets Kitty is up for sale and removal.

Bejorie Limited is yet to make contact with the Maritime Administration Department (Marad) to have 17 abandoned vessels removed from Trinidadian waters.

New attorney Keisha Hiles was admitted to the Guyana Bar on January 3 before Justice Roxane George with her petition was presented by Christine McGowan-Grant and witnessed by family and friends. 

Minister of Local Government Ganga Persaud yesterday acknowledged that substandard work was done on the approach to a $43 million bridge at Moruca and said that as soon as there is fair weather, the ministry expects that the work will be completed.

Even as the Justice Institute Guyana yesterday condemned the alleged baton rape committed on Colwyn Harding and the PNCR made a monetary donation, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee urged all to await the facts before rushing to judgment.

Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of Saresh Gobardhan, whose body was found at the corner of the road at Dochfour, East Coast Demerara on Friday.

The construction worker who was injured by a pile of zinc sheets, he was meant to replace at the Gafoor’s Complex in Houston, East Bank Demerara, on the 12th January, sustained an injured spine and fractured skull and left upper cheekbone.

Accused of concealing 33 pounds of cocaine in 15 packets of powdered milk, American-born Jermaine Lowe was refused bail and remanded to prison when he appeared yesterday in court.

Audwin Amsterdam, a young police constable who was attacked by his neighbour on Sunday, yesterday underwent surgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital for a severed right knee.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday chastised Education Ministry Permanent Secretary Delma Nedd for continuously failing to sanction officers who approve payments to contractors for substandard and/or incomplete work.

ChildLink yesterday signed an agreement with the European Union (EU) for a €200,000 grant for its ‘Empowering Children in Difficult Circumstances’ project.

The Guyanese Organisa-tion of Indigenous Peoples (GOIP) in a release has deemed the deafening silence by state funded groups such as the Indigenous Peoples Com-mission, Women’s and Gender Commission, Rights of  the Child Commission and National Toshaos’ Council on the recent murder of 17-year-old Theiana Andrews as most appalling.

The Public Accounts Committee Sub-Committee on the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) has received around 20 nominations for the PPC, including that of Mayor Hamilton Green.

The $50 million Harold B Davis Special School was yesterday commissioned at the Ptolemy Reid Rehabil-itation Centre (PRRC) during a simple ceremony, at which Rehabilitation Offi-cer Cynthia Massay announced that the name was chosen to honour former chairman, Harold B Davis, who was the longest serving chairman of the school board.