Guyana News

Neighbours were last night furious that a row between a husband and wife may have sparked the husband to set their Lot 548 99th Street, Parfait Harmonie home ablaze.

The Child Care and Protection Agency (CC&PA) is providing counselling for post-traumatic stress disorder to Odessa Thomas’s family, following the fire last month that claimed the lives of her two youngest children.

International Day of Peace will be observed on Saturday and the Guyana chapter of Global Shapers Georgetown Hub will host a panel discussion at the Theatre Guild on Guyana’s role in the promotion of peace education.

A man was yesterday sentenced to two years imprisonment after he was found guilty of stealing a BlackBerry cell phone.

Two more persons were taken into police custody to assist with investigations into the murder of Corentyne businessman Abdul Majid.

Nine men, who were held in connection with armed robberies in the West Demerara area and on Wakenaam Island, remained in police custody yesterday and according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud investigations continue into the crimes they are accused of committing.

The section of the East Bank four lane extension contracted to BK International ought to be finished by next March as long as weather conditions remain favourable, says BK Project Manager Julian Archer.

In wake of recent defections, AFC Chairman Nigel Hughes yesterday insisted that the party remains both cohesive and committed to the struggle for a better Guyana.

Magistrate Fabayo Azore granted $100,000 bail to a Mahaica man charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on another after he pleaded not guilty when he yesterday appeared in court.

One of the two suspects in the September 16 robbery at Kamboat Restaurant, Sheriff Street was yesterday remanded to prison after he was arraigned by Magistrate Fabayo Azore.

Parents of pupils attending the Parfait Harmonie School say they are prepared to stage another protest if their demands are not met by the end of the month.

A twenty-two-year-old man was yesterday remanded after police alleged that he threw a gun out of the car he was in at a traffic stop.

The cause of the Caribbean Airlines Flight Number 523 crash-landing on June 30, 2011 has been found to be pilot error.

President Donald Ramotar today urged European Union (EU) officials to undertake a reappraisal of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) to determine if tangible benefits have accrued to the CARIFORUM signatory nations since it took effect five years ago.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The six Jamaican men allegedly held in the eastern Caribbean in a multi-million dollar drug bust have been remanded.

European Union Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs today said that the EU remains committed to strong ties with the Caribbean but he stressed the region has to do better on project implementation and he also pointed to the need for the highest standards of accountability and transparency.

Three New York-based members of the Alliance For Change (AFC) have switched their support to main opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Economist Dr Tarron Khemraj, who along with businessman Rab Mukraj and Political Science Professor Asquith Rose, has left the AFC’s New York chapter, said that the party has been suffering from “self-inflicted wounds” for a long time.

The result of the post-mortem examination conducted yesterday on the remains of Corentyne businessman, 79-year-old Abdul Majid proved that he died from strangulation.

More than a year after a man was hacked to death and a teen girl mutilated, police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for the North West District miner believed to be responsible.

Government says that an agreement with Trinidad and Tobago’s ENMAN Group to develop a hydropower plant at the Turtruba Rapids, upstream of Bartica on the Mazaruni River, expired over three years ago, despite the company’s recent announcement of plans to move ahead.