Guyana News

-probe intensifies two months after reported attack Two months after an alleged horrific baton rape of Colwyn Harding by a cop, the police force and the Ministry of Home Affairs issued their first statement on the matter  yesterday pledging a full probe with the latter warning of “condign” action against anyone found culpable.

Residents all across Linden were without power from about 14:00 hrs yesterday afternoon up until press time this morning after a breaker at BOSAI’s power plant got damaged.

The opposition yesterday took aim again at Home Minister Clement Rohee, reiterating their lack of confidence in his stewardship of the security sector and the police force in the wake of new allegations of police brutality.

Amidst glowing tributes, veteran broadcaster and former Deputy General Manager for the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) Terence Ormonde Holder was yesterday laid to rest.

A former cane harvester of Port Mourant, Corentyne, Berbice was yesterday sentenced to ten years in prison for killing his wife of over 20 years.

Three men were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged in the city with two murders in the Rupununi linked to binge drinking.

While supporting and endorsing the objectives of the USAID $300M Leadership and Democracy (LEAD) project, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) yesterday urged a resumption of dialogue between the Guyana and US governments to find common ground for its implementation.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall says he is unaware of any settlement between the government and BM Soat which caused the latter to drop court action in relation to the tearing down of one of its fences at Success on the East Coast of Demerara.

Two of the four men accused of 2011’s fatal shooting of 72-year-old Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris in her Robb Street home were on Monday committed to stand trial for her murder in the High Court.

Over 300 residents of Lethem have signed a petition calling on the Lethem Power Company (LPC) to immediately rescind its decision to raise electricity tariffs from this month.

The Ministry of Education yesterday said that  after the receding of floodwaters and clean up exercises, the following schools will be reopened today:   East Ruimveldt Secondary Tutorial High School North Georgetown Secondary The Bishops High Saints Stanislaus College Comenius Primary St Gabriel’s Primary St Sidwell’s Primary Starter’s Nursery   Some schools are not ready to be reopened today, and as a result will remain closed.

An Enmore vendor is now recovering in hospital following an early morning attack on his home by masked bandits.

A 59-year-old motorcyclist of Waterloo, Bath, West Coast Berbice lost his life after he was struck by a Toyota Caldina wagon, HC 1217 around 5:50 pm yesterday on the Bath Settlement public road.

Just days after considering buying a car, Enmore villager Francis Koo received a new Mazda Demio when he was named the second and final winner of Courts’ ‘TCL Gives you a Brand New Ride’ promotion yesterday.

Two men were remanded to prison yesterday after denying a charge that they robbed a woman of two cellphones.

The streets of Albouys-town remained covered in over six inches of water yesterday even as floodwaters receded around the rest of the city a day after incessant rainfall.

The Ministry of Health will be sending 11 children with life threatening cardiac problems overseas for surgery, as a result of a collaboration among the University of Calgary, Baby Heart (an international Non Governmental Organisation  and the Ministry, GINA said yesterday.

Two main pumps in Georgetown are not working plus at least one of the sluices along the Demerara River in the city is non-functional and the others are not working at 100 percent, compounding the drainage problems after the recent heavy rainfall.

The board of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is expected to vote on February 28, 2014 on a US$200 million debt package for Guyana Goldfields’ Aurora gold mine project.

Andrew Taylor, who said he was on drugs when he tried to drive off with another man’s car before crashing it into another vehicle, will be spending the next 56 months in jail after he pleaded guilty to a robbery with aggravation charge yesterday.