Guyana News

Red Thread member Joy Marcus has challenged former Minister of Labour and current PPP/C parliamentarian Manzoor Nadir to walk in the shoes of the poor class of citizens before making a determination of the adequacy of the salaries they earn to maintain their families.

A man was early yesterday morning dipped out of a trench at Anna Regina on the Essequibo Coast after he was reportedly missing since Old Year’s night.

The Water Street pump is now in working order, says City Engineer Colvern Venture.

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) is seeking Mark Sauers in connection with cocaine found at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport on Friday last.

The Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) has no knowledge of a proposed US$500 million agricultural and forestry investment by the Malaysian syndicate, Wee Boon Ping Group of Companies.

Betrothed Guyanese couples will have the opportunity to win an all-expenses-paid wedding of their dream compliments of the Roraima group.

Two women were injured in a road accident on the public road at Stewartville, West Coast Demerara yesterday after a policeman car’s collided with a minibus.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) says a $43 million bridge at Moruca has been disastrously done and the contractor has abandoned the work.

A woman will work hard in the house of someone else as a domestic but many times she cannot rest when her day is over; instead she has to hurry home to strip brooms to sell, or prepare for her night job as a security guard, or in some cases, sell fish.

The Rescue Coordination Centre has suspended the search for a Trans Guyana plane that went missing this afternoon over the Mazaruni.

At about 0430h today, police say that a patron at a night spot on Main Street, Georgetown, observed a man attempting to break into his motor vehicle and discharged a round from a firearm at the man.

At about 0535h today, the police say that Police Constable 14716 Kirk Profitt was walking along Bent Street, Georgetown, when he was attacked by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) this afternoon said that an intensive search is on for a Trans Guyana Cessna Caravan which is believed to have gone down somewhere between Olive Creek and Imbaimadai.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) says a $43m bridge at Moruca has been disastrously done and the contractor has abandoned the work.

The man who was shot during an attempted robbery yesterday at the home of businessman Ishwar Jeffrey at Annandale North, ECD, was seriously injured to his face and not fatally shot as was inadvertently stated in a press release on the incident yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Guyanese nationals have featured prominently as both “overstayers and undocumented migrant workers” in this country, according to statistics from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service’s Crime and Problem Analysis Branch (CAPA), a research report on invisible immigrants has stated.

Reports that four prison officers assaulted 23-year-old alleged baton-rape victim Colwyn Harding surfaced yesterday, triggering a fresh wave of protests while a witness to the alleged beating her suffered at the Timehri Police Station has come forward.

Guyana has registered its highest score in eight years on the Wall Street Journal/ Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom but remains listed among “the mostly economically unfree” countries.

Reeling from a spike in armed robberies in villages along the Corentyne Coast, some villagers have formed themselves into vigilante groups to patrol their communities at night.

Litterbugs who dispose of garbage in public places and out of vehicles can be fined $50,000 under new anti-littering rules laid in the National Assembly on Thursday.