Guyana News

The suspect in the fatal beating of Lusignan       resident Maharanie Parmanand 0had been convicted for assaulting her and fined in his absence with an alternative of eight months imprisonment, but the woman’s family says police failed to pick him up although he could be seen walking the streets daily.

A woman now hospitalised with multiple stab wounds inflicted by her former partner wants police to visit her so that the man responsible for her injuries could be charged.

In the face of an ongoing political impasse, Transparency Institute (Guyana) Inc.

More than two months after being passed in the National Assembly, four local government bills are yet to be sent to President Donald Ramotar for him to determine if he will give or withhold his assent.

Sixteen residents of the Uncle Eddie’s Home and three residents from the Millicent Greaves Seniors Residence in D’Urban Backlands travelled to the Splashmins Resort yesterday for a picnic and day’s outing coordinated by Resident Care Committee members Maria Rodrigues and Eliza Hackett.

A minibus driver was yesterday refused bail after being charged with stabbing a rival in a row over a passenger.

Five students and a mentor are representing Guyana on a three-week exchange Youth Ambassador Programme in the United States to develop and hone leadership skills to empower them as community leaders.

Guyana Fashion Week’s (GFW) first runway collection takes to the stage this evening at the Parc Crayne Entertainment Centre, Rahaman’s Park, Georgetown.

Seven persons, including five children under the age of 18, are now homeless after a fire razed their Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara home this morning.

President Donald Ramotar yesterday announced an increase in the stipend for toshaos of Amerindian villages.

At about 0350h. today, police say that Christopher Wayne, 22 years, of Callender Street, Albouystown, was about to enter his premises when he was confronted by two men on bicycles.

A 47-year-old East Coast Demerara woman was yesterday discovered dead by neighbours, hours after allegedly being severely beaten by her spouse and her family says that given the abuse she faced in the past it was a tragedy waiting to happen.

Grave concern has been expressed by the Private Sector Commission (PSC) over a statement by APNU executive Joseph Harmon that the coalition was putting banks on notice that it considered the Marriott Hotel project unjustified and would therefore not honour any commitments made in relation to it by the government or its partners.

In less than a week, a second East Coast family has come forward to detail their terror at being ambushed at gunpoint after returning home from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.

In the absence of opposition members, government representatives on Tuesday concluded the select committee work on the Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Amendment Bill, which is to be re-tabled in the National Assembly once its preparation is completed.

A phone from a robbery in West Berbice on Friday morning was found on Delon Hawker, the Alness man whose killing by police following another robbery later that day at Mahaicony has fuelled controversy.

A 56-year-old Essequibo woman is now battling for her life in the Burn Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital after suffering first degree burns in a fire suspected to have been started by her lover who subsequently poisoned himself to death.

The government/UNDP agreement for the US$10.7M Amerindian land titling project came under protest yesterday by dozens of Amerindians led by the Amerindian People’s Association (APA), which says the recognition of the use of some traditional lands is still to be resolved.

The jury foreman in the Lusignan massacre trial, banned for life from jury duty after failing to disclose he was a long term client of Nigel Hughes, who was the attorney for one of the accused, was later a client of the chambers of current Attorney General Anil Nandlall, the AFC revealed yesterday.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Tuesday will be deciding on which of the 14 applicants for the post of Chief Election Officer will make the cut on the shortlist as the body seeks to replace  Gocool Boodoo.