Guyana News

At about 0415h today, the police say they arrested ten men and four women who were involved in the blocking of the roadway at Ituni,(Upper Berbice/Upper Demerara) and with the support of the Ministry of Works the logs used to create the blockage were removed.

Qualfon’s Providence call centre will cater for 3,500 seats when built.

The Jury of the Guyana Prize for Literature today released the Shortlists for the 2012 Awards in the various categories of entries.

Well-known florist Jean Pollard has passed away at the age of 82.

A 14-year-old boy died yesterday after he was shot by a stray bullet near his home at Vive la Force, West Bank Demerara and the community said his death may have been avoided if police had acted on numerous reports of reckless shooting into the area from boats on the Demerara River.

The University of Guyana (UG) Council has terminated the contracts of Bursar John Seeram and Senior Accountant Hazel Bentick as at the end of last month and the workers’ union says it plans to protest the decision.

A post-mortem examination conducted on the teen who died days after undergoing a C-section delivery at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) revealed that malaria and blood pressure complications caused her death, but still not satisfied her father says he will search for answers after he has buried her.

Frustrated residents of the East Bank Demerara community of Garden of Eden say that they are disgusted and fed up after making pleas to those in authority about the decrepit bridge only to have it collapse the day before school reopened.

The 21-day timeframe in which President Donald Ramotar is constitutionally required to  indicate his intention or lack thereof to assent to the four local government bills has not yet lapsed as he was still to receive any of the bills up to last Friday .

A man who was previously sentenced to serve six years in jail for possession of drugs and ammunition, will spend another 2 years incarcerated, this time for fracturing the arm of  his common-law wife.

The decomposing body of an African male was yesterday discovered floating in a canal at Long Pond on the West Bank Demerara and is still to be identified.

The two compactors that were donated to the Mayor and City Council (MCC) have still not been put into use and the locations where they are to be placed, is still to be decided.

A man and a woman were yesterday charged with assaulting each other and placed on bonds to keep the peace.

A man who claimed he was wrongfully accused of stealing $202,000 worth of clothing was yesterday granted bail, when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The body of a 37-year-old man was early yesterday morning found lying on the roadway at Four Miles, Quarry Top, Port Kaituma with his throat slashed.

Human trafficking activist Simona Broomes yesterday filed an official complaint with the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) against her arrest last week.

The cries for help from an abused woman in Berbice were heard by the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security which has offered to provide her with a safe home.

Gilbert Bristol, the exporter who was accused in 2012 of trying to ship $2 billion in cocaine hidden in fish food bound for China, died at the Georgetown Hospital after a prolonged illness.

Two men were yesterday charged and remanded to prison when they appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court accused of robbing a man of a cell phone and $50,000.

High winds on Sunday wreaked havoc in the Garden of Eden community, blowing the roof off one house and sending a tree crashing onto a utility pole that left the area without electricity up to late yesterday afternoon.