Guyana News

Security guard Andre Williams, 52, was fined yesterday for slapping a three-year-old boy who went into his yard to retrieve a balloon, leaving him with a bloody nose.

A logger was reportedly crushed to death on Tuesday by a falling tree in Ituni, Region 10 and details as to what exactly transpired are sketchy.

Police are questioning a man in connection with the murder of Tyrone Boodhoo who was shot on the Vryheid’s Lust Seawall, East Coast Demerara on Sunday night, a senior police officer yesterday.

Gold miner Merwin George was yesterday remanded to prison after denying a charge that he attacked another miner with a cutlass, after confusing him with someone else he had a fight with at a rum shop.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has started the first phase of public consultations on the development of its new public utilities policy profile aimed at getting feedback from key stakeholders on priority areas of the policy profile.

Marlon Ganesh, who is on trial for killing his father-in-law, yesterday told the jury that he was trying to defend himself when he fatally stabbed the man.

By Jeff Trotman Over one hundred Linden residents on Tuesday endorsed the name, Linden Martyrs Monument Park, for the proposed facility to be established in the vicinity of the Mackenzie-Wismar Bridge to commemorate the month-long protest by Linden residents against electricity rate hikes and in remembrance of three residents who were shot by the police on July 18th 2012.

Nicholas Cox, the 16-month-old child who was hospitalised for over a month after he was allegedly given an overdose of medication, was discharged from the Georgetown Hospital on Tuesday and his mother says she was told that he had sustained brain damage.

A Charlestown man was yesterday sentenced to two prison sentences after he was found guilty of break-and-enter-and-larceny and unlawful wounding.

Teenage block-maker Omari Sinclair was yesterday placed on $50,000 bail after telling a court that he was only defending himself when he hit the uncle of one of his friends with a piece of wood.

The 33-year-old man facing three charges in the death of Anniesha Persaud of Rose Hall Town on June 30 was on Wednesday slapped with a death by dangerous driving charge when he appeared in the Whim Magistrate’s Court.

Gas station owner Cecil Gajadhar who was shot and wounded during last Monday’s fatal bank trip ambush is recovering well and will be discharged from hospital soon.

The Ministry of Home Affairs is appealing to livestock owners to exercise proper supervision of their animals during the grazing period as its stray catching units in Georgetown and Berbice impounded a total of 408 animals last month.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport has planned several camps to be held in all ten Administrative Regions targeting 10,000 children on their two months vacation.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Ltd is sponsoring a Steelpan Workshop in collaboration with the Tina Insanally Foundation.

The Guyana Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory is 45% complete and is expected to be commissioned in approximately four months, the Government Information Agency said yesterday.

The Muslim Youth League of Guyana (MYL) and three other Islamic groups are urging Muslims to participate fully in the fast and services planned for the month of Ramadan and to use the opportunity to intensify their prayers and give charity to In a press release, the Muslim Youth League of Guyana says Muslims should be grateful for another opportunity to “seek forgiveness, by fasting sincerely and intensifying …prayers” in order to benefit throughout the month from their efforts.

Caricom member states have elected representatives to serve on the newly-created Regional Integrated Ballistic Information Network (RIBIN) board to start its work, pursuant to a decision taken of the Fifth Meeting of the Council of Ministers Responsible for National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE).

Chief Justice Ian Chang this morning discharged an order he had made in the Gocool Boodoo case bringing an abrupt end to the proceedings.

RK’s Security will begin the termination of all government contracts starting this Saturday with the rest being terminated on July 15 following the implementation of a new minimum wage and the 40-hour work week from July 1st .