Guyana News

The World Bank last week approved US$340 million in financing for the US$468.6 million 80-megawatt Rusumo Falls Hydroelectric Project in Rwanda, Africa underlining the point that Guyana could have sought to win backing for the Amaila Project from this institution.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Clifford Singh, 35 years, of Prince William Street, Plaisance, ECD.

With eighteen grade one and two grade two passes, 16-year-old Zimeena Rasheed of Anna Regina Multilateral Secondary in Essequibo has

Justice Navindra Singh yesterday placed a life ban from jury service on the foreman   in the recently-concluded Lusignan massacre trial for failing to disclose that he was once a client of attorney Nigel Hughes, who represented one of the two accused who were acquitted.

With Essequibo girl Zimeena Rasheed scoring an astounding 20 CSEC subjects, the Ministry of Education yesterday celebrated a marginal improvement in the number of Grades 1 to 3 passes but results for English A and Mathematics remain unsatisfactory.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has appealed the recent acquittals in the Lusignan massacre trial, saying that the lawyer for one of the two accused and the jury foreman both failed to disclose a six-year attorney-client relationship.

President’s College student Shalita Appadu, 18, of Corentyne, Berbice, has topped this year’s CAPE examinations.

Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh yesterday assailed APNU’s reasons for not supporting the Amaila hydropower project, calling them factually wrong and saying that tariffs will come down 20 percent within two years of operation.

Joshua Baveghems who allegedly beat his teenaged girlfriend with a spade before chopping her to death yesterday made his first court appearance on a charge of murder.

Three of the five bills passed by the National Assembly last week will today be sent to the Attorney General’s Chambers to receive their assent certificates, according to National Assembly Clerk Sherlock Isaacs, who says the remaining two are to follow soon.

A third man was charged yesterday over the March 25th $4.3M robbery of gas station owner Cecil Gajadhar.

Private security firms believe businesspersons are partly to blame for the robberies and related crime perpetrated against them by being careless and taking unnecessary risks.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has reported an overall increase of 5% in serious crimes at the end of the January-July 2013 period compared to the same period in 2012.

The trial of Morris Roberts, accused of fatally beating another man to death at Wanakai, North West District, began in the High Court yesterday with him changing his plea from guilty to not guilty.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee yesterday defended the appointment of Patrick Mentore to the Strategic Management Department to oversee police reforms although his name was recently mentioned in relation to a US visa racket.

Top 2013 CSEC performers (As provided by the Ministry of Education)

Two men have been arrested in connection with Monday’s discovery of cocaine in a shipment of ochroes at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timheri, police said yesterday.

A couple was placed on a bond to keep the peace for the next 12 months after each party decided to drop charges against the other.

“Give us some more time,” is all Radica Thakoor hears whenever she checks with authorities on the now three-year-long probe into the death of her daughter, bank employee Sheema Mangar.

Education Minister Priya Manickchand this morning announced that Zameena Rasheed, a student of Anna Regina Multilateral School is the country’s top student at this year’s sitting of the CSEC examinations.