Guyana News

Police were yesterday still seeking a businessman in connection with the Tuesday night gunning down of biker Kirk Davis at Eccles.

A jury was yesterday empanelled to preside over the trial of Orpheus Johnson, who is accused of killing a Kaneville, East Bank Deme-rara (EBD), resident in 2009.

The students of the L’ Aventure Secondary School, at Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara which was partly destroyed by fire on Wednesday, will be relocated to a building in the area, according to the headmistress Althea Daniels-Stuart.

A man considered the prime suspect in the murder of elderly Robb Street pharmacist Harold Rachpaul was recently captured after being on the run for two years, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud has confirmed.

A man was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with breaking and entering the home of another man and stealing three laptop computers.

A woman was yesterday arraigned at court on charges of threatening and abusing her sister.

This year’s GuyExpo expects 85 international exhibitors, some 50 more than last year.

Zimeena Azealia Rasheed and Yogeeta Persaud, both of the Anna Regina Secondary School, Region Two, were rewarded with all-expenses paid trips to Kaieteur Falls for being the country’s top perforers at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.

A study done in 2011 of hydrology studies over the years concluded that the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project would have year-round river flow to enable it to produce at least 884 gigawatt hours annually even in periods of low rain and hence low river flow volumes.

Guyana has marginally improved its ranking on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Competitiveness Index, rising from a ranking of 109 out of 144 countries in last year’s report to 102 out of 148 countries in the current report.

Call centre company, Qualfon, yesterday embarked on a massive expansion of its business here which will see US$4M ($800M) spent in the first phase on a complex at Providence with a promise of 6,000 new jobs in about three years.

An early morning fire yesterday destroyed a section of the L’ Aventure Secondary School, at Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara, likely displacing some of the school’s nearly 700 students just three days into the new school term.

A 23-year-old West La Penitence resident was yesterday morning stabbed to death on North Road, after an argument with another man.

Guyana falls among the worst performers in Latin America and the Caribbean, the others at the bottom being Guatemala and Haiti, according to the Global Burden of Diseases Injuries and Risk Factors study 2010, released by the World Bank yesterday.

Sirmattie Ramnaress, the Diamond, East Bank Demerara businesswoman who was murdered last week, died as a result of a ruptured spleen and brain haemorrhaging, her post mortem examination stated.

By Jeff Trotman The Region 10 Regional Democratic Council (RDC) has asked government to undertake remedial works on the deteriorated Linden-Kwakwani road, but “erratic inclement weather conditions” are being blamed for hampering preparatory works for repairs to some sections.

Carifesta XI held from August 16-25 in Paramaribo, Suriname had approximately thirty participating countries from the Caribbean Community (Caricom), Union of South American Nations (Unasur) and other delegations from as far as Asia.

A city businessman is at the centre of investigations into the shooting to death of biker Kirk Davis on Tuesday night.

Hours after being robbed, a storeowner shot a man identified to him as one of the perpetrators last evening near the Stabroek Market.

President of the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) Simona Broomes yesterday flayed police over their handling of the assault report made against her, saying there has been a “glaring” lack of professionalism.