Guyana News

Director of the Child Protection Agency Ann Greene on Thursday implored members of the media to play their part in helping to protect children.

A batch of 50 students who benefited from scholarships to study at the secondary, technical and tertiary levels under the Hinterland Scholarship Programme graduated on Wednesday at a ceremony held at the Amerindian Village, Sophia Exhibition Complex.

Several volunteers and staff of the Guyana Red Cross Society have successfully completed five days of training in psychosocial support which was facilitated by Coralee Cambridge.

The Guyana Police Force(GPF) has issued a wanted bulletin for Satish Neil Ramcharitar,  who is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to the murder of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara electrician Jagdeo Thakurdeen.

A man was arraigned yesterday on a drug trafficking charge after police found 6.860 kilos of cannabis in a room that he was allegedly renting.

A man was yesterday denied bail and remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry after he was arraigned on three counts of armed robbery.

During the month of June 2013, twenty-two persons were charged before the courts for littering in several Georgetown wards. 

A man charged with damaging his cousin’s property yesterday told a court that the accusation stemmed from his removing a chair from their shared residence because of his daughter’s asthma.

Satish Neil Ramcharitar is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to the murder of Jagdeo Thakurdeen on June 30, 2013, at Good Hope Railway Embankment, ECD.

Customs officials this morning found a large quantity of marijuana stashed in a container full of cars at the John Fernandes Terminal on the Back Road.

A campbellville resident was shot and left for dead when gunmen opened fire on him at Cummings Street, Alberttown early this morning.

A revised Automatic Promo-tion policy, under which secondary-level students who fail Mathematics and English will no longer be advanced to higher grades, will be in place when the new school year begins in September.

By Jeff Trotman The Region Ten administration yesterday suspended its monthly statutory meeting to protest the failure of the Ministry of Health to provide an ambulance for the region.

A man who killed his father four years ago after an argument at Beterverwagting (BV) was sentenced to 27 years in jail yesterday after he pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

Norwegian financing from a forest protection scheme has been disbursed to 12 Amerindian communities under the Amerindian Development Fund (ADF) Project.

Julian Cummings, who was wounded in the fatal attack in the North West that left his son-in-law dead on Tuesday, says his survival is a miracle and is calling for miners to be granted gun licences so that they can protect themselves.

President Donald Ramotar says that it is his hope that the reform process currently engaging Caricom’s attention will yield a mechanism that is more proactive.

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has signed a two-year cooperation agreement with the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) to establish solid risk management practices and build a strong foundation for its small and medium enterprise (SME) lending.

A new model initiated by the Caribbean Community (Caricom) will result in each participating country in Carifesta X1 being limited to 50 persons, the Government Information Agency said yesterday.

Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan yesterday fined 59-year-old Leon Saul, President of the Guyana Rastafarian Council $20,000 for possession of cannabis and ordered him to undergo 4 weeks community service at the Brickdam Police Station.