Guyana News

Since a boost which followed the release of a revised feasibility study earlier this year, Canadian mining company Guyana Goldfields has seen its stock value drop by 60% for 2013, according to a report in Forbes.

A Leonora mother of eight has been missing since July 6, according to her common-law husband.

The Food and Drug Department is recalling a batch of Rugby Enteric Coated 81mg aspirin tablets manufactured by Advance Pharmaceutical Inc as there has been a mix-up resulting in these bottles actually containing 500mg of acetaminophen tablets.

Vendor Wazim ‘Wazie’ Baksh is being accused of three counts of fraud, including receiving outboard engines using a forged $4 million cheque, all of which he denied at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

A man, believed to be homeless, was last evening the victim of a hit and run on Homestretch Avenue.

UG Vice-Chancellor Jacob Opadeyi today denounced an online report which quoted him as having purportedly uncovered a “corrupt ring” at the university in addition to the leaking of examination papers.

Joseph Williams, 27, called “Joey” of 59 Gordon Street, Kitty was this morning remanded to prison after being arraigned for the murder of Victor Da Silva.

Opposition parties APNU and the AFC yesterday said that Chief Election Officer Gocool Boodoo should no longer be in his position following stunning claims by an elections commissioner on how the ruling PPP/C was nearly handed a parliamentary majority in 2011 that it had not won.

One miner is dead while several others are critically injured after a bush truck toppled yesterday along the Puruni trail in Region 7 (Cuyuni/Mazaruni) .

Police apprehended three men after an attempted robbery in the Coldingen, ECD area yesterday afternoon and recovered a sub-machine gun in the process.

The trial of the three men accused of the 2008 Lusignan massacre, in which 11 persons were killed, will begin on Monday in the High Court.

Guyana yesterday signed a framework agreement to join the Southern Customs Union (MERCOSUR) as an associate member.

One of the three suspects held in connection with Monday’s fatal bank trip robbery is to be charged, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud says.

Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman yesterday lauded elections commissioner, Vincent Alexander for speaking out on the count fiasco in 2011 that nearly erroneously handed the PPP/C a parliamentary majority.

With the four revised local government bills slated to be returned to the National Assembly next week, AFC leader Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday said that his party would vote for their passage.

HPS and Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon announced that Cabinet had no objections to several contracts in five sectors including seven in the security sector and four for the supply of material and building of river and sea defence infrastructure.

Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday handed down a two-year prison sentence to Brian Benjamin, who was found guilty of robbing a woman of her jewellery after telling her that it looked “nasty.”

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) has applauded the organisers of an investment conference last month but expressed disappointment at the lack of a continuous presence by senior officials of the government and the parliamentary opposition.

Two brothers who threatened to kill each other yesterday exchanged apologies and were bonded to keep the peace.

Asiyah Mohammed, the winner of the finger spelling bee competition sponsored by Courts, was yesterday presented with a cheque of $320,000 which will go towards the Deaf Association of Guyana.