Guyana News

The Guyana Police Force today said it wished to clarify that contrary to reports circulating in some sections of the media, there was no armed attack on any Police Station, nor was any police rank shot and killed during last night.

An elderly Corentyne rice miller was shot dead on Tuesday evening while driving off armed intruders from his home and police held three persons yesterday for questioning.

A Management Audit is to be done by the University of Guyana (UG) as its administrators look to assess and improve the current system.

A one-year-old boy, left at home unsupervised when his mother went to pick up his sister from school, drowned in a drain at Sophia yesterday.

The body of a man who it is suspected committed suicide was yesterday found in a hotel on Norton Street after the woman he was with raised an alarm to the staff that he had tried to strangle her.

The suspect in the execution-style killing of former DJ Sheldon Cheddie has told investigators that he was contracted following a drug-related transaction between the man and other persons.

A monitoring and evaluation forum yesterday heard that 212 roads have been completed under a Caribbean Development Bank-funded programme.

The family of slain Meten-Meer-Zorg businessman Zulfikar Namdar believes that the bandits who carried out the attack on Tuesday that left him dead scouted the area in advance.

A witness yesterday testified that accused murderer Stravo Evans confronted her with a gun and threatened to kill her and her family if she identified him after the fatal shooting of Bascal Johnson on Laing Avenue.

Rondy Jagdeo, the suspect in the murder of Eccles biker Kirk Davis, was recently spotted in neighbouring Suriname and there are reports that he has been making contact with relatives apologizing for his behaviour.

Dennis Rampersaud, charged with failing to return a computer to a woman he is accused of raping, was yesterday refused bail and remanded to prison.

Two students from Moco Moco, Region Nine have taken their places among the new batch of students enrolled at the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA) and they will eventually be able to help the “struggling” rice farm in the village.

The Ministry of Home Affairs officially launched the Houses of Justice Project, opening five of them in Region Three on Tuesday.

Eighty-five applicants pulled their lot numbers for plots at Zeelugt, Phase Two, East Bank Essequibo when the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) hosted the second One Stop Shop for the year for single parents and low income earners on Monday.

Bids were opened on Tuesday at the national tender board for the docking and rehabilitation of the vessel MV Makouria with the procuring entity being the Transport and Harbours Department.

The accused in the theft of an iPhone was yesterday remanded to prison after she was unable to supply a current address to a city court.

An electrician was yesterday charged with assaulting his common-law wife. Ryan Shepherd, a father of three of 43 Palm Street, Werk-en-Rust, pleaded not guilty to cuffing Hollis Gillis to the left side of her face, causing it to be bruised and swollen.

Mark Angel was yesterday denied bail after he was charged with trafficking marijuana, which was allegedly found on him during a police stop and search in the city.

A man was on Tuesday remanded to prison after being arraigned on charges of robbery, disorderly behaviour and multiple counts of assault, including attacking a police officer.

A city man was on Tuesday sentenced to 18 months in jail after he admitted to stealing a car engine.