Guyana News

The Home Affairs Ministry says the shooting death of a construction worker alle-gedly by a member of the Belle Vue Community Policing Group will be investigated with “the expectation of having a satisfactory outcome.”

Two months after the South Road shooting that left three men dead, police are still conducting investigations and one of the fathers of the dead men said that while his son was “not innocent”, he did not deserve to die the way he did.

Minister of Local Government Ganga Persaud said the councillors of the Georgetown Municipality must first make a request to him before the ministry facilitates mayoral elections.

Detective Constable 19182 Andel Doris, who was accidentally shot in the leg by another rank yesterday, at the Fort Wellington Police Station, has been admitted as a patient at the Fort Wellington Hospital for medical treatment.

Three-year-old Jasmine Joseph is still in a critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation but relatives say that she has regained consciousness.

The Uncle Eddie’s Home (UEH) received a sewing machine on Friday, compliments of the Lions Club of Ruimveldt.

At about 1415h today, police say that a Police Constable who was on duty at the Enquiries Office at the Fort Wellington Police Station and who was armed with a service .38 revolver, is reported to have been in the process of taking off the firearm when a round was accidentally discharged.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Rudranauth Jeeboo, of Craig Avenue, C’Ville, Georgetown, whose body was found at about 0700h.

At about 1000h on Thursday, police say that a dredge owner from the Essequibo Coast was driving an ATV along a trail at Sulphur Road, Cuyuni River, when he was confronted by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun.

At about 0730h. today police say that Tom Mentis, 37 years, of Republic Avenue, Linden, was driving a motor pick-up over the Mackenzie/Wismar Bridge when he apparently lost control of the vehicle which crashed through the railing and plunged into the Demerara River.

The Public Works Ministry yesterday defended the demolition of a fence and building it said was obstructing the construction of the four-lane road project at Success, East Coast Demerara.

Charged with stealing over $17 million in an armed robbery, three men were yesterday not required to plead when they appeared before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A 22-year-old accused of murdering another man during the course of a robbery yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The USAID-funded $300m Leadership and Democracy (LEAD) project to be implemented by the International Republican Institute (IRI) will be of great value, according to Opposition Leader David Granger Granger, also leader of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) was speaking  to reporters yesterday on the government’s rejection of the project on the grounds that it was insufficiently consulted.

The driver accused of causing the death of Chief Librarian Gillian Thompson on Christmas Eve was yesterday placed on $500,000 bail after he appeared before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on four charges.

Junior Bourne, who was charged with the murder of Canada-based Guyanese Rawle Harding three years ago, was yesterday found not guilty in the High Court.

The construction of more turnkey homes and allocation of 6000 houselots are among key projects that will be pursued by the Ministry of Housing in 2014.

A three-year-old Amerindian girl was brutally attacked and dragged from the steps of her home by a jaguar yesterday at Isseneru in Region 7.

Courts (Guyana) is scheduled to launch their online sales website in January 2014, according to Director of Marketing, Molly Hassan.

Heavy rainfall over the past two days has caused flooding in the Pomeroon River area and some parts of Charity on the Essequibo Coast, but the water has started to recede in some places.