Guyana News

A woman was yesterday placed in the prisoners’ holding cell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court after she falsely accused her common-law husband of threatening to chop her.

A man was fined $5,000 for assaulting his wife after an argument over a text message she read on his phone.

The Ministry of Education last Tuesday opened bids for the

Just days after embarking on protest action to force the removal of acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba, Mayor Hamilton Green and City Councillors found themselves sitting with her at the council’s statutory meeting yesterday.

Junior Luther will spend the next two years in jail after he broke into a Rentokil pick-up and stole gear from inside the vehicle.

A man was yesterday sentenced to three years imprisonment after being found guilty of narcotics possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Keisha Persaud will be sitting in prison for the next 18 months after she stole her friend’s phone.

Calvin Bailey burst into tears yesterday when, for the second time this year, he learnt he would have to face another trial for the murder of his toddler son after a jury failed to agree on a verdict.

By Jeff Trotman Dr. Stephen Carryl lives a purpose-driven life. “I don’t care how small or little, you cannot live life without a purpose,” he said at a social gathering last Friday at the LEN Building, in Linden, to wrap up his annual mission heading an Overseas Medical Assistance Team (OMAT) to Linden.

A man was yesterday sentenced to 12 months in jail after he pleaded guilty to having cannabis, which was found in his house during a police search.

The Ministry of Home Affairs is appealing to livestock owners to ensure proper supervision of their animals during the grazing period as its stray catching units impounded a total of 338 animals last month from the Georgetown, East Bank Demerara, Berbice and West Bank and West Coast Demerara areas.

(Trinidad Express) The former owner of Island Club Casino in Grand Bazaar has been charged in the United States with three counts of tax evasion and three counts of wilfully failing to file personal tax returns.

At about 0055h today, police say that Devon Cooper, 38 years, of Festival City, Georgetown, was on the seawall at Ogle, ECD, when he was confronted by two men, one of whom was armed with a firearm, and during which he was shot to his right hand.

(Barbados Nation) Just weeks after its chief executive officer, captain Ian Brunton, promised that LIAT would improve its service, more than a dozen passengers travelling with the regional airline were stranded at the Grantley Adams International Airport.

In an address to the nation, President Donald Ramotar today again argued strongly for the Amaila hydropower project and said he will try to convince the investors to stay.

President Donald Ramotar yesterday made a renewed bid to win APNU’s support for the Amaila Hydropower project but party Leader David Granger maintains that the venture cannot be supported in its present form.

AFC chairman Nigel Hughes has acknowledged that his association with Sithe Global was a conflict of interest and made his most definitive statement yet that he has quit politics, a decision he appeared to have not yet communicated to the party’s leadership.

After suffering “immense loss” as a result of the new minimum wage, security firm RK Security has terminated 11 of its 15 government contracts.

Spots of blood still stain the Diamond, East Bank Deme-rara home where seventeen-year-old Angela McAllister was slaughtered last Thursday with a cutlass and spade by her boyfriend.

The recent PPP Congress has acknowledged that ethnic insecurities are real and says that any political solutions must address these insecurities.