Guyana News

Dawn Da Silva, diagnosed with a brain tumour, is appealing for assistance to raise the money she needs to undergo brain surgery in Cuba next month.

A thief, who snatched another man’s chain from round his neck and then swallowed it after he was caught, was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in prison.

A scrap metal dealer, accused of having an improvised utensil for smoking cocaine, yesterday told a court that the instrument was planted on him.

Forty-six children, between the ages of eight and 14 years, were yesterday awarded certificates after completing the seventh annual Guyana National Museum Children’s Taxidermy summer camp.

The Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association (GRPA) is holding an outreach on its ‘Youths Promoting Healthy Lifestyles’ campaign today at the City Mall, as it seeks to increase awareness about the initiative and services available for young people.

A huckster was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge that he had cocaine for trafficking.

The father of murdered North West businessman John Jeffrey says that the release of the men identified fleeing in a car from the scene of the crime is a sign that police have failed do a proper investigation.

A 62-year-old man was on Thursday summoned to answer two charges at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, including stoning a woman’s house.

The Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) is trying to identify an accident victim, who succumbed yesterday at the facility.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, , CMC – Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel defeated the Guyana Amazon Warriors by three runs in their CPL T20 match at the Queen’s Park Oval last night.

President Donald Ramotar is reassuring the nation that Government will continue to work with stakeholders to bring the Amaila hydropower project to fruition, GINA said tonight.

Sithe Global has pulled out of the Amaila Falls Hydro Project, Head of NICIL Winston Brassington, has confirmed to Stabroek News.

Jamaica yesterday received bids for a massive power plant using a variety of fuel sources which puts the average cost per megawatt at US$1.54M to US$1.62M compared to the Amaila hydropower project’s US$5.09M.

A Cummings Lodge Secon-dary School teenager was allegedly chopped to death by her teenage boyfriend yesterday at Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara after his sister invited her to his home.

Deported back to Guyana on Tuesday for a crime he says he didn’t commit, Mohamid Nazim Mohamed’s future is uncertain.

Although the AFC has declined his resignation, party Chairman Nigel Hughes plans to take a break to decide if he will remain in politics.

President of Sithe Global, Brian Kubeck says that the company would be communicating its position on whether or not it will continue its involvement in the Amaila Falls Hydro project today and declined to give any indication of what direction its decision may take.

Clerk of the National Assembly Sherlock Isaacs says the four recently passed local government bills and the Hydro Electric Power (Amendment) Bill need to be sent to the office of the Attorney General (AG) for assent certificates before they are sent to President Donald Ramotar to sign them into law.

Leron Griffith, the taxi-driver who struck and killed a Surinamese restaurateur on Mandela Avenue in May, was charged with causing death by dangerous driving yesterday.

A man was yesterday arraigned on a charge of forcing a 13-year-old boy to perform a sexual act.