Guyana News

A Suriname-based Guyanese was slapped with three charges on Tuesday when he appeared in the Albion Magistrate’s Court before newly appointed Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh.

Labourer Travis Anthony Payne yesterday admitted that he threatened to shoot a policeman but denied robbing him of his gold chain at gun point.

Residents of the residential area of Lamaha Gardens are crying out for help from a spate of thefts and robberies, while the Guyana Police Force is urging them and the public-at-large to be more vigilant.

An accident which occurred in Region One yesterday has left one man dead and several others injured.

An American citizen was yesterday afternoon nabbed with cocaine in her suitcase as she was preparing to leave Guyana on a flight bound for the JFK International Airport, New York, Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) head James Singh confirmed.

Murdered Brazilian dredge owner Jose Francisco De Sousa Lema was robbed of raw gold by three masked men with guns and after the attack his body was left lying on the roadway for most of Tuesday because police at the nearest stations did not have any transportation to get them to the isolated area.

Despite the cause of death for the Woodley Park murder victim being listed as fractured skull,  the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecution has advised against charges.

Jagdeo Thakurdeen, the Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara electrician who was found dead on Sunday night at Good Hope, died as a result of head injuries, a post-mortem examination has found and the man’s widow yesterday said that his death may have been avoided if police had acted on a report she made to them.

APNU executive member Joe Harmon says that the main opposition wants a sit down with executives of the Guyana Power and Light Inc.

A Venezuelan national who entered Guyana illegally, and who also claimed he was here to purchase medication since he suffers from high blood pressure after which he would return to Venezuela, was yesterday fined $30,000 or the alternative of six months imprisonment Gloeny Enrique Mendez Gonzalez, 42, appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore on a charge that on June 23,

Tattoo artist Nicholas Troy, who said cannabis found in his shop was planted there, was yesterday remanded to prison.

Sophia residents will now have access to free dental services in their area with the opening of a new clinic, a collaborative effort of the Rotary Club of Georgetown Central and the Ministry of Health.

A Foulis man is now the owner of an Apple iPhone 5 after his name was drawn during the first anniversary promotion for Apple products at Global Technology.

Caribbean Airlines today said that flight BW792, a cargo freighter owned and operated by ABX (Airborne Express) departed Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Guyana at 10.52am and returned to ramp at 11.03am due to a fire warning light indicator in the cockpit.

(Barbados Nation) Guyanese national, Hema Baichu and his passenger Everett Crichlow escaped serious injury this afternoon when the cement truck in which they were travelling overturned just off of the St Thomas roundabout around 12:28 today.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egypt’s armed forces overthrew elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi today and announced a political transition with the support of a wide range of political, religious and youth leaders.

Stung by criticisms in a Sunday Stabroek Business Page column over the prices for items in the Timehri airport expansion project and subsequent reports in the Kaieteur News, the Ministry of Public Works today said that the figures include other costs such as labour and profit.

In a case that had shocked and riveted the country, three former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) coastguards charged with murdering Bartica gold dealer Dweive Kant Ramdass were found guilty and sentenced to death yesterday at the High Court sitting at Suddie.

The north wing of the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital was reopened and rededicated yesterday at a simple ceremony at the hospital’s Kingston location three years following a devastating fire.

Gunmen early yesterday morning shot a Brazilian miner dead during an apparent robbery in the Barama area, some 100 kilometres from Port Kaituma, in the North West District of Region One.