Guyana News

Stabroek News has confirmed that an ambulance that was down for some time was returned to the Mabaruma hospital and is back in service.

According to a release from the United States Department of Justice, two US District Judges have authorised the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to issue summons for records relating to US taxpayers with offshore bank accounts by directing five banks to produce records for accounts.

Police have come under heavy criticism for the way they handled Tuesday’s Middle Street shootout, which claimed five lives including that of the gunman, and according to retired Police Commissioner Winston Felix what was lacking was proper leadership.

Deryck Kanhai, the miner who on Tuesday shot four people dead before his own death, was granted two gun licences although he was known to have a violent temper, engaged in indiscriminate shooting displays and had previously shot himself in the chin with an illegal gun.

President of Panther Recycling Corporation of Canada, Michael Mosgrove has rubbished a memorandum of understanding that Guyanese-born Canadian citizen Mohammed Osman signed with the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development saying that he, not Osman, is the owner of the name Natural Globe Inc.

An Albouystown man was shot dead by a lone gunman on a motorcycle on Tuesday evening on the roadway at Walker Terrace, East La Penitence.

Three men were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with the $93 million gold heist at El Dorado Trading Company, at Port Kaituma last Friday.

Deryck Kanhai, the miner who took the lives of four persons on Tuesday before he was killed during a shoot-out with police was in the bottom flat of his building for the duration of the standoff and did not have access to his CCTV camera monitors as previously thought.

Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell has promised the family of Dellon Hawker, who was shot and killed by lawmen last month, an investigation would be launched into the circumstances surrounding his death.

Rosignol Secondary was on Tuesday officially declared an `A’ List school with the unveiling of a plaque after more than $45M was spent to upgrade it.

A traffic officer was last evening killed and a colleague seriously injured following an accident while they were on a motorcycle on the Zeelugt Public Road, West Coast Demerara.

What started out as a hobby for Cassia Alphonso has propelled her into the national spotlight as a prize-winning poet.

President of the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha Dr Vindhya Vasini Persaud has condemned the wanton use of squibs and firecrackers that attended the recent Diwali celebration.

HPS and Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday announced that Cabinet has offered no objections to four contracts including one valued over $176M for the rehabilitation of the Linden/Lethem road.

An epileptic man accused of committing an armed robbery was yesterday released on his own recognisance.

By Jeff Trotman Although the Ministry of Public Works has accepted the repairs that Bai Shan Lin has done on the $90M Inter-American Develop-ment Bank-funded Moblissa road, residents are displeased and have pledged to resume protest action to ensure that the road is fixed to their satisfaction.

Political analyst Henry Jeffrey has rapped the Private Sector Commission (PSC) over its petition to Parliament on the anti-money laundering bill and argued that its tendency to support the government will continue until constitutional and other arrangements are in place to allow it independent action.

With over 28 years in business, A Ally & Sons General Store continues to expand with the recent addition of an Auto Depot at Princess Elizabeth Road, New Amsterdam.

Residents of No 2 Village, Zee Zight, West Coast Berbice have suffered drainage problems for a number of years.

Secretary-General of the Carib-bean Community (Caricom) Irwin LaRocque, and Director-General of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Irina Bokova, on Monday committed to strengthening relations between the two organisations with the signing of a revised Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).