Guyana News

Two Albouystown men Tyron Paris and Nigel Yearwood were yesterday sentenced to 60 months imprisonment after they were found guilty of robbery with violence.

Seven persons were left homeless yesterday after a fire razed their Castello Housing Scheme house.

Ramesh ‘Toney’ Ramraj, 23, who faced a murder charge at the High Court in Berbice was on Monday sentenced to 20 years imprisonment – ten years after murdering his father at the age of 13.

The police say that investigations are being conducted into a fatal accident that occurred at about 1545h on Monday at Onderneeming Public Road, Essequibo Coast, and which resulted in the death of Felix Layne, 66 years, of Onderneeming.

The Court of Appeal will next month rule on an application by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack to have two affidavits, including one from the Trial Judge,  included as part of the record in the appeal of the acquittals of the Lusignan Massacre accused.

The mother of Delon Hawker, the man who was shot dead by police during an alleged shootout at Mahaicony last week, is pleading for witnesses to come forward and settle questions about how he met his end.

Guyana is poised to meet most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) but sustaining the strides made with less international funding is already being seen as a near challenge for the future.

The Ministry of Agriculture has designed a project to engage students enrolled at the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA) in income-generating activities during the duration of their programme, in keeping with its goal of making them practising agriculturists by the time they graduate.

As the United Nations ups the momentum for reaching the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the government here says that policies pertaining to reaching these goals have been accelerated and the future seems bright.

Accountant Kalisha Vaughn, 19, was yesterday granted $50,000 bail after being charged with stealing clothes.

Several Region Nine Amerindian communities last weekend received cheques valued at least $1M via the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Sport’s Community Ground Improvement initiative to upgrade their community grounds and or facilities.

The Ministry of Public Works yesterday stated that offers of assistance were made to farmers on the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA) reserve to no avail.

US Ambassador D Brent Hardt advised Volunteer Youth Corps (VYC) CEO Goldie Scott to build on the professional linkages she made while participating in the embassy-sponsored International Visitor Leadership (IVL) exchange programme in the United States to strengthen her organisation.

PNCR Assistant General Secretary Amna Ally and a team of party officials are calling on the PPP/C administration to improve basic services in the Pomeroon-Supenaam area as the IMC and RDC “do not seem to know what they are doing.”

A man was yesterday remanded to prison after denying that he stole articles amounting to $1.5M from a British national.

Police have launched an investigation into the death of a two-year-old girl yesterday in South Haslington, East Coast Demerara.

The police say that investigations are being conducted into a fatal accident that occurred at about 1545h yesterday at Onderneeming Public Road, Essequibo Coast, and which resulted in the death of Felix Layne, 66 years, of Onderneeming.

(Trinidad Express) People’s National Movement (PNM) supporters returned home yesterday, taking the party from overwhelming defeat in 2010 to resounding victory.

The 7th annual National Toshaos Council (NTC) meeting opened yesterday with the signing of a US$10.7 million agreement between government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for Amerindian land titling and community demarcation.