Guyana News

With the first shipment of fertiliser from Venezuela under the PetroCaribe Agreement missing its mid-September deadline the Agriculture Ministry is promising the arrival of the 5,000 tonnes of urea by the week’s end.

The Guyana Water Inc’s (GWI) Georgetown Sanita-tion Improvement Programme (GSIP) has now begun work at the Princes Street and Louisa Row junction.

In observation of Education Month and in keeping its objective of improving children’s literacy the Guyana Book Foundation donated over 18,000 books to 133 schools in three regions.

A new Conservative government will take power in Norway next month and questions are being raised about the future of the Nordic country’s climate initiative given its almost US$700 million in unspent climate forest aid including to Guyana.

Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA has donated over 100 books to the optometry programme at the University of Guyana.

At the Blairmont Court yesterday, Magistrate Rondell Weaver placed a Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice man on $175,000 bail on charges of break and enter and larceny.

Four persons are in custody assisting detectives with brutal murder of Yadram Jaggai, called Muffy, 36, of Lot 254 Number 48 Village, Corentyne.

Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday remanded a 22-year-old to prison after he appeared before her to answer to a charge of robbery under arms.

A Lancaster Village, Coren-tyne man was yesterday charged with the murder of the man whose body was found in an abandoned house last week.

Phillip “Shoelace” Paul, accused of the murder of shopkeeper Kamal Ramsahoye, is due to go on trial in November.

A 28-year-old, Meadow Bank man was yesterday sentenced to three years imprisonment and fined $48,000 after he was found guilty of being in possession of narcotics.

A 25-year-old man was yesterday granted his pre-trial liberty in the sum of $20,000 when he appeared at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Rondell Weaver to answer charges relating to domestic violence.

Roxan Rowe and Akule Aseyika were the grand prize winners among a group of 24 persons who won prizes in the MoneyGram ‘Back to School’ Promotion.

The Guyana Defence Force today said that Coast Guard ranks yesterday investigated a report of piracy which had occurred off the Essequibo Coast in the Pomeroon and, in the process, found a second vessel which had reportedly suffered the same fate.

Former Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran says there should be no further delay in the ending of jury trials here.

Neither the President nor any member of his cabinet has any form of authority to make interpretations of the Constitution enabling them to state with authority that legislation passed in the National Assembly was unconstitutional, says former Chief Parliamentary Counsel Bryn Pollard.

At about 0215h. today, police say that motor cars HB 9018 and  PNN 1530 which were proceeding in opposite directions along Robb Street, Georgetown, collided.

Top Cop, Leroy Brummel is urging communities across Guyana to fight back against criminal elements that are infiltrating formerly peaceful neighbourhoods.

Double ‘R’ Hardware Store at Rosignol, West Bank Berbice went up in flames around 4.20 pm yesterday, resulting in millions of dollars in losses and at least four persons out of a job.

A couple from Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice have been arrested for physically abusing their nine and two-year-old Canadian sons who are now in the custody of the Child Care & Protection Agency (CCPA).