Guyana News

Six educational establishments are now the beneficiaries of five million dollars thanks to the contributions of CGX Energy Inc.

A resident of the East La Penitence Night Shelter was yesterday fined by a city magistrate after assaulting another resident in what he claimed was an attempt to wake the man up.

A realtor was yesterday brought to a city court after she allegedly converted the funds given to her for rent to her own use.

Twenty-one-year-old Keron Perreira, accused of the knifepoint hold-up of a teacher of the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre, was remanded to prison yesterday Perreira was not required to plead when he was brought to the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday.

At about 1155h today,  police say that a female Assistant Accountant and a female Accounts Clerk of the Ministry of Public Works, Fort Street, Kingston, accompanied by an armed Private Security Guard, were attacked and robbed of $7.7M by two men armed with handguns.

The police say they are conducting investigations into the murder of Godfrey Jaggroo, 20 years, of Belle Vue, WBD, which occurred at about 1900h last night at Belle Vue.

The Guyana Public Service Union yesterday announced in a statement that protest action/marches against the impositions of wages and salaries will commence tomorrow at 11hrs.

The long vacant post of Ombudsman will likely be filled soon as government yesterday informed the opposition of its selection of former Justice Winston Moore to hold the position.

APNU MP Joseph Harmon yesterday said that none of the explanations offered by Minister of Natural Resources Robert Persaud on the Muri Brasil Ventures survey in the sensitive New River Triangle are credible and he reiterated his call for the minister to quit.

The Director of Public Prosecu-tions (DPP) has directed that the preliminary inquiry (PI) in the murder charge against local cricketer Carlyle Barton, who was accused of fatally shooting another man on Orange Walk, be reopened.

By Jeff Trotman Over one hundred workers of the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) stayed away from their jobs yesterday as the protest against the government’s announced five percent increase for public servants escalated.

A pork-knocker, hailing from the North West District, was remanded to prison yesterday after being charged with murdering his own brother.

A hike in gun attacks this year has pushed the level of crime upwards, with a four percent increase in serious offences and a fifteen percent rise in gun robberies, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said yesterday.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GHPC) yesterday received $900,000 in donations to aid in the procurement of three foetal monitors for its Neo-Natal Unit.

A  Special Constabulary rank of the Guyana Police Force was found dead at the rear of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) complex at Camp and Bent streets early yesterday morning.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon yesterday announced that Cabinet has approved $56M for the restoration campaign planned for Georgetown.

Companies involved in offshore oil and gas exploration in Guyana will be conducting a review of related activities in the USA tomorrow, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources.

The Guyana Power and Light Inc. yesterday said it wanted to notify  customers along the Essequibo Coast that all remedial work on the 11kV busbar at the Anna Regina Generating Station has been completed and that the power supply situation has returned to a state of near normalcy.

The Guyana Relief Council continues to assist persons who have suffered losses due to disaster and on Tuesday provided help to East Coast Demerara residents who suffered losses due to high winds.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) at a press conference on Monday declared its satisfaction with the progress of the  “Donald Ramotar Administration in terms of economic growth and development despite a harsh global environment and a less than supportive domestic environment.”