Guyana News

A couple accused of assaulting each other but who opted against pursuing the matter was yesterday placed on a 12-month bond to keep the peace.

The opposition tonight thwarted a bill which the government says is critical to the advancing of the Amaila Falls Hydropower project.

Government and Opposition senior Members of Parliament were as at 1845 hours today locked in talks with Speaker Raphael Trotman in a bid to find a way forward on the passage of the Hydro Electric Power Amendment bill and a motion to increase the limit on loan guarantees.

At about 2215h last night, police say that miner Glendon Parks, 27 years, of Santa Mission, Essequibo Coast, was involved in an argument with another man on a floating mining dredge at Kangaruma, Middle Mazaruni River, during which he was stabbed to his chest.

High winds flipped this single engine private aircraft at Ogle International Airport early yesterday afternoon.

A year since the fatal shooting of three men and the wounding of several others on the Wismar/Mackenzie Bridge set off nearly a month-long protest, Linden and its people bear both the physical and emotional scars that continue to fuel a call for justice, which they say they are prepared to fight for all over again if they have to.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is in its third week of the “pivotal” second crop yet no harvesting and grinding has commenced at the Skeldon estate.

Upon returning to his home in Orlando, Florida yesterday, Azaad Ali was surprised that over $800,000 in gold jewellery was missing from his luggage.

An eight-year-old boy on Tuesday morning drowned while trying to save a friend from the same fate in the Corentyne River at No.79 village.

Two gunmen, who posed as customers, carted off close to one million dollars after they carried out a brazen attack on Fullworks Motor Spares and Auto Sales at Good Hope, East Coast Demerara yesterday.

Tashana Barnes, the young woman who was hit when shots were fired during a brawl at the Platinum Night Club at Bartica last Friday, is worried that there is a “cover up” to protect the person who shot her and she is calling on authorities to thoroughly investigate and bring the shooter to justice.

Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh has defended Government’s position on not supporting the Public Procurement Commission’s (PPC) establishment under the current legislation – the Procurement Act of 2003 – stating that an amendment made in 2003 to remove Government’s role upon the constitutional body’s establishment was done hurriedly and without careful analysis.

The Guyana Police Force is soon to electronically monitor its mobile patrols to ensure they perform assigned duties, acting Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell announced yesterday.

Two Survival Supermarket employees yesterday found themselves before a court after a workplace misunderstanding turned violent.

There was a voir dire (trial within a trial) as the trial of James Anthony Hyles called ‘Sally’ and Mark Royden Williams called ‘Smallie’, the duo accused of the 2008 Lusignan Massacre continued yesterday in the High Court.

The Master Plan for the Zoological Park was unveiled on Tuesday night and while no deadlines or project costs have been set, Minister of Natural Resources Robert Persaud said that the government has already committed $150 million.

The first volume of parliamentary speeches by the late President LFS Burnham, covering the period 1957 to 1958, was presented by its editor Professor David Dabydeen to Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman on Monday.

Thirteen new archaeological sites were found in the Rupununi Savannah, Region Nine during an anthropology field visit to the Karanambo Ranch, archaeologist attached to the Boise State University, Dr Mark Plew said, according to the Government Information Agency.

A teacher accused of assaulting his student and using abusive language towards her was on Tuesday bonded to be on good behaviour after the charges were dismissed because the girl no longer wanted to offer evidence against him.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has endorsed the sentiments expressed by the Private Sector Commission (PSC) and called on all parliamentary stakeholders to support the passage of a motion on the Guarantee of Loans (Public Corporations and Companies) Act and the Hydro-Electric Power (Amendment) Bill 2013.