Guyana News

The Committee of Supply of Parliament yesterday voted for a provision that would see the Casique Suites and Banqueting Hall being advanced a sum of $33M, in the same way Buddy’s Hotel received an advance of $168M in the form of room purchases for the Cricket World Cup.

The body of a 14-year-old boy was fished out of a canal at Bagotville, West Bank Demerara on Wednesday after he had apparently gone for a swim the day before and never returned.

The Ministry of Agriculture and the Guyana Revenue Authority are hosting Value-Added Tax sensitisation programmes for sugar industry stakeholders.

Six women from the Diplomatic Spouses Association (DSA) yesterday undertook a house-painting expedition under the auspices of Habitat for Humanity Guyana Inc’s Women Build Project (WBP) at Westminster, West Bank Demerara.

A man who was accused of breaking into a woman’s home and raping her four years ago at Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara was set free on Tuesday after a High Court jury returned a unanimous verdict of not guilty.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday granted bail to a teenaged boy who allegedly fondled a 12-year-old girl on Christmas Eve day.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan remanded to prison a man accused of robbery when he yesterday appeared to answer to the charge at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Two men appeared in the Leonora Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday on a charge of stealing over $270,000 worth of items from the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) and were remanded to prison.

Magistrate Fazil Azeez at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday granted bail to a 12-year-old boy who appeared for the second time before him on a charge of unlawful wounding.

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A sixth Mazaruni Prison escapee, Dhineshwar Sooklall of Wakenaam, was yesterday nabbed by the Joint Services, one week after the jail-break in which he and eight others fled from the high security facility.

Given the raging controversy over the casino gambling bill there is an expectation that it would be sent to a select committee prior to passage based on parliamentary precedent and today’s key sitting will be presided over by Deputy Speaker Clarissa Riehl.

A young man of Riverview, Ruimveldt was brutally shot to death in Middle Road, La Penitence last evening by two men who calmly rode away on a pedal bicycle.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon says he sees no room at the moment for revisiting the cut-off in GINA advertising in the Stabroek News (SN) and any change would have to be dictated by financial and economic considerations.

The body of Hazrat Alli, the missing passenger from a boat collision near the Bartica Stelling on Tuesday night, was yesterday afternoon found at Kaow Island, Essequibo River.

Lethem has been without power since Wednesday night and the Rupununi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) plans a protest there tomorrow when Prime Minister Sam Hinds is supposed to be in the area.

The PNCR-1G and its supporters who are lobbying against the impact of the Value Added Tax (VAT) changed the route of a protest march staged yesterday by making a detour west into Regent Street instead of east into Church Street.

Casino gambling legislation is a means by which criminal elements in Guyana can conceal their various activities including extra-judicial killings and a number of other illegal activities.

Local beef exporters would need to ensure that beef products are competitive in quality, price and service.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday met representatives of the Export Import Bank of India (EXIM) to pave the way forward for specific developmental projects that could be funded by the bank.