Guyana News

A 17-year-old yesterday fatally stabbed his mother and teenage brother at their Moblissa, Soesdyke-Linden Highway home in the wee hours of yesterday morning and has since gone on the run.

A major Indian company, the D Y Patil Group is said to have begun the process of cultivating 65,000 hectares of land in the Canje Basin but there has been no information on the agreement with the government aside from a passing reference to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

Miner Deryck Kanhai, who went berserk last month and shot four people dead before he too was killed, had been granted gun licences by late Police Commissioner Henry Greene even though he was advised against it.

Ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) yesterday morning intercepted 12 kilogrammes of cocaine which was stuffed into locally grown boulanger before it could be placed on a flight to Toronto, Canada, at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, sources close to the case have confirmed.

Member of Parliament for the main opposition party APNU Joseph Harmon said that he is unconvinced that the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment has a handle on the royalties that BOSAI Minerals is supposed to pay to Guyana for its bauxite extraction, which he estimates to be in the order of US$54 million.

Several persons were injured, some seriously when two minibuses collided on the Ruby public road, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) yesterday afternoon.

Story and photos by Keneisha Fraser “I came to live here in 1975 when I married.

Fifty years after the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) came into existence it is a far cry from the vibrant force that once represented workers and played a pivotal role in decision-making in the country.

A police officer stationed at Mahdia and accused of harassing sex workers in the Region Eight area has been reportedly captured on video assaulting one of them and the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) plans to take up the issue with the senior officers of the police force.

Brain Leitch, the teen who was wanted in connection with the murder of South Road hotelier Joseph Alexander Jagdeo is now is police custody after he was turned in by his mother yesterday.

The last of three new computer laboratories was yesterday handed over to the Guyana Police Force by US-based Zara Reality Holdings, equipping local law enforcement personnel with the technology needed for today’s digital world.

Deeds Registrar Azeema Baksh has struck off 119 entities from the Register of Companies for failing to comply with the Companies Act and these include the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), the Guyana Oil Company Ltd, Guyana National Shipping Corporation and Guyana Stores Ltd.

The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) has requested the depositions from the preliminary inquiry into the murder charge against cricketer Caryle Barton, who was recently freed, but after more than a week they have yet to be handed over.

A suspect in a robbery who was under police guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday managed to escape despite being shot at several times.

At about 1550h. today, police say Edgar Blackman, 19 years, of 9A Tucville, Georgetown, escaped from the ward at the GPHC where he was receiving medical treatment and was in police custody under guard pending investigations into robbery under arms.

The police say they are conducting investigations into the murder of farmer Molly James, 33 years, and her son Aaron James, 15 years, of Moblissa, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, which occurred at about 0030h.

By Jeff Trotman Over 100 workers from the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) staged a protest march and rally yesterday to oppose the 5% wage increase government has announced for public servants, and they heard a call for continued militancy until the administration agrees to a higher payout.

Office of the President has criticised the Hydrometeo-rological Office over its failure to provide warnings in a timelier manner ahead of Wednesday’s flash flooding, which left most of the capital under several inches of water and saw millions in damages.

The Amerindian community of Isseneru has petitioned the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) asking for the application of measures to uphold its rights over both titled and traditionally-owned lands, in light of ongoing concerns about mining claims and what it calls the failure of the authorities to protect its rights.

A Region One mother of nine is among two maternity deaths reported for the month of November, bringing the total for this year so far to 15.