PPP member Desmond Morian has moved to the court seeking to bar APNU+AFC members Winston Felix and Keith Scott sitting in the National Assembly unless their names are extracted from their coalition’s list.
Man held by cops At about 1300h. today, the police say that Sharon Baldeo of Diamond Housing Scheme, EBD, was in a mini-bus that stopped at Eccles, EBD, to allow a male passenger to exit.
Amid signs that Venezuela is trying to limit condemnation from Caricom on its May maritime decree that targeted huge swathes of Guyana’s Atlantic waters, President David Granger and Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge yesterday ramped up pressure on the regional body to take a strong stance while pointing out the threat to the wider community.
Registrar of Lands Juliet Sattaur was yesterday sent on leave to facilitate an investigation into the operation of the registry and “certain financial matters,” Minister of State Joseph Harmon has revealed.
A Bartica businessman was yesterday charged with misappropriating $120 million given to him to purchase gold when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
An excavator operator has been remanded to prison after being charged with the murder of Hardat Kissoon, who was shot once to his chest and robbed of a bag containing money on June 1 while he was in a minibus heading home.
Government by the end of yesterday was to make a final decision on the board of Atlantic Hotel Inc (AHI), the special purpose company for the controversial Marriott Hotel, Minister of State Joseph Harmon announced yesterday even as he made it plain that Winston Brassington will be removed as its Chairman.
As the new government continues its attempts to ascertain the state of the various ministries they have inherited, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has dispatched a team to assess the accounts and administration of the Guyana High Commission in India.
Cabinet on Tuesday approved US$100,000 ($20 million) in emergency funding to the Iwokrama Rainforest Centre to cover expenses such as paying staff of the cash-strapped forest reserve facility as international funding has dwindled over the years.
After meeting for the first time yesterday at the Agriculture Ministry, four members of the Commis-sion of Inquiry (COI) into the sugar industry will make their first visit to the crisis-ridden Skeldon factory today.
As government continues to put measures in place to get its State Assets Recovery Unit (SARU) up and running, Guyana will be sending a representative to Rome, Italy for an 11-day training programme dealing specifically with this issue, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said yesterday.
Five persons have been identified as having fraudulently accessed fuel from the Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil) through an arrangement set up by the former administration and Minister of State Joseph Harmon said they would be asked to pay for the fuel even as investigations continue into the racket which has ensnared three government ministries.
Three men were set free and placed on a bond after the charge of stealing $1.3 million in items was dismissed against them.
A labourer was placed on $75,000 bail yesterday when he appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan charged with break and enter and larceny of a stall in La Penitence Market, Albouystown.
The prosecution will make closing arguments today when the trial of two men accused of killing Colleen Forrester and stuffing her body in a septic tank continues.
Time ran out for a man yesterday when he was charged with stealing two clocks from the Ministry of Public Health and subsequently placed on bail.
Caught with cannabis is his pocket, a bus conductor was yesterday fined and ordered to perform community service at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Minister of State Joseph Harmon said yesterday that the work of the National Assembly will continue into the scheduled recess period as there is much to be completed, particularly the presenting of the national budget.
The three suspects who were taken into custody in connection with the murder of Port Mourant businessman Rampersaud Shivcharan have been released on station bail.
The damaged Sussex Street koker which had caused parts of Albouystown to be flooded last week, will cost the Government $3M to repair.
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