Guyana News

The Guyana Police Force and the Special Constabulary are currently engaged in several capital projects to the tune of some $659 million and the works are progressing satisfactorily.

Residents of Kwakwani, Region Ten yesterday signed up for their Agreements of Sale and initiated the process of acquiring their land titles, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.

The Mahdia Secondary School Dormitory fire death toll has now risen to 20.

The Police say they are investigating the murder of Shivram Mohabir, called Vickash, a 23-year-old mechanic of Lot 40 Triumph Side Line Dam, East Coast Demerara, which occurred at about 7 pm yesterday.

Retired Assistant Com-missioner of Police, Paul Slowe, is labelling as “‘strange” the Joint Ser-vices’ operation that resulted in the shooting to death on Sunday of an alleged accomplice of escaped death row prisoner,  Mark Royden Williams called ‘Smallie’.

Heavy fog on Sunday shuttered the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri  preventing two international flights operated by Ameri-can Airlines and Jet Blue from landing at the airport, resulting in major delays.

Inspectors from the Guyana Fire Service are conducting fire prevention and preparedness assessments at schools and dormitories countrywide which actually began a month before the May 21 blaze at a female dormitory at Mahdia that claimed 19 lives.

Finding that the judge who conducted his trial had not complied with sentencing guidelines, nor considered mitigating factors, the Court of Appeal has reduced to 20 years; the two life sentences which had been imposed on child rapist Mark Campbell.

The Chairwoman of the Lancaster/ Hogstye Neighbourhood Democratic Council was on Sunday placed into custody after she and others were caught removing PPP/C flags from poles along the Manchester Public Road, Corentyne Berbice.

The hearing on the merits of the appeal filed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its challenge to the High Court order that it is to enforce the liability clause in permits for ExxonMobil’s offshore oil operations here, has been adjourned to tomorrow.

Businessman  Kian Jabour, along with other concerned citizens, yesterday staged a protest outside the Office of the President (OP) demanding that the accountable ministers of government step down until the promised Commission of Inquiry completes its probe into the fire at Mahdia on the 21st May that claimed the lives of 19 children.

Fifty-eight inmates at the Lusignan Correctional facility recently graduated from various skills training programmes such as culinary arts, electrical insulation, carpentry and joinery, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony yesterday attended the opening ceremony of the Health Fair and Blood Drive held at the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), Head office on Vlissengen Road, George-town.

Jason Clement was yesterday sentenced to three years’ imprisonment after he was busted earlier this month with ganja at Tabatinga, Lethem.

The Amerindian Peoples Association (APA)  says it is reviewing a decision from the Architecture for REDD+ Trans-actions (ART) Secretariat rejecting its complaint over the manner in which carbon credits were issued to the Government of Guyana.

The police tonight said that Orlando Charles, a 45-year-old pilot and businessman of Lot 45 Middle Street, Georgetown, is to be charged by the Guyana Police Force with 16 counts of Trafficking in Persons.

An Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam woman was today remanded to prison after she was charged with her husband’s murder following her reported confession to investigators in Region Six that the victim discovered her cheating and began nagging at her and as such she decided to poison him.

President  Irfaan Ali departed for Brasilia, Brazil this morning to participate in the Meeting of the Presidents of South American Countries tomorrow.

A 15-year-old girl was today charged with the murder of 19 children who died after the May 21st blaze at the female dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School.

The police said yesterday that members of the Joint Services fatally shot a man who was wanted in connection with assisting notorious death-row prison escapee Mark Royden Williams, while they were transporting him on a trail at St Mary’s Logging Area,  Essequibo River, about 58 miles south of Bartica.