Guyana News

A North Ruimveldt businesswoman is now a prisoner awaiting trial on a charge of human trafficking.

A four-year-old girl of Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice lost her battle to survive one week after being admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) following an accident.

Teachers and Grade One pupils of the One Mile Primary School in Linden turned up for classes yesterday to find their classroom flooded.

A businessman is being accused of endangering motorists and pedestrians travelling through the Lodge Housing Scheme as a result of his placement of a container and other items at the corner of a narrow roadway.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday denied that members of the Tuschen Community Police Group had been detained in connection with a shooting incident early last month.

A senior medical practitioner of New Amsterdam succumbed on Sunday night while receiving treatment at the New Amsterdam Hospital following an accident on the Berbice coast.

The four Brazilian miners who were killed when a pit caved in at Arau Backdam, Eteringbang have been confirmed as “illegal” and Natural Resources Minister Robert Persaud yesterday said the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) had warned about illegal operations in the area just three weeks before the tragedy.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited last Tuesday hosted a special award ceremony in honour of its employees’ children who completed the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA).

Auditor General Deodat Sharma yesterday presented Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman with the Auditor’s General’s Report, a compilation of the audited financial records of Guyana’s ministries, departments, and regions for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012.

The Guyana Association of Women Lawyers (GAWL) is disappointed that Attorney General Anil Nandlall has chosen to publicly air his views about an ongoing legal matter and condemns his assertion that the association supports criminals.

Seven persons, including two Venezuelans were yesterday fined $30,000 each for illegal entry.

Bryan Persaud of Berbice has won the opportunity to see Beyonce live in concert in New York in her final performance of the Mrs Carter world tour.

Sterling Products Limited (SPL) has announced plans to augment its Literacy Staff Development Programme with information technology courses, even as it celebrated the success of 14 employees who graduated recently.

A carpenter was yesterday remanded to prison for allegedly stealing a quantity of items from another man’s home.

Managing Director of BK International Brian Tiwari says that the use of excavators, bulldozers and other heavy-duty machinery on the Supenaam Stelling is responsible for the collapse which occurred recently, even as the Public Works Minister says that the results of an ongoing review will determine what went wrong.

The Berbice Bridge Company Inc (BBCI) recently donated a television set, a DVD player and a voltage regulator to the Sheet Anchor Nursery School, Canje, Berbice.

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran has berated the Minister of Finance and legislators for the late presentation of accounts for dozens of statutory bodies.

At about 2100h. yesterday, police say that motor car PJJ 6228 and motor lorry PP 251 were involved in an accident on No.

Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Clinton Urling says that the Chhamber is looking forward to President Donald Ramotar assenting to four local government bills passed nearly a month now.

Police say that at about 0430h yesterday,  police ranks stopped and searched a motor car on Mandela Avenue, Georgetown, during which a 9MM Luger pistol with ten rounds were discovered.