Guyana News

The Ministry of Home Affairs in its monthly report on the operations of its Stray Catching Units said that the units impounded a total of 413 animals during the month of January 2014, in its continued efforts to enhance road safety.

Facing a three-year prison sentence after admitting to stealing a smartphone, a teen was on Friday given a reprieve ahead of sentencing after an attorney appealed on his behalf, while arguing that jail would only make the young man much worse.

A team of volunteers from the Illinois, US Church of the Nazarene on Friday completed a week of rehabilitation work at the Ruimveldt Children’s Aid Centre.

Atlantic Cable Television Network’s (ACTN) incorrect laying of cables on Friday caused interference with Guyana Power and Light lines in Kingston resulting in mass blackouts on Saturday.

The US Embassy today took the unprecedented step of issuing a warning to its citizens here to avoid travelling to the US on Caribbean Airlines flights here from tomorrow through to Wednesday.

Two passengers were nabbed separately yesterday at the Timehri airport with approximately 20 kilogrammes of suspected cocaine in tamarind achar.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) says that the anti-money laundering bill must be rid of all of its weaknesses in crucial talks today prior to its consideration in Parliament tomorrow.

During continuing investigations into armed robberies on the Upper Corentyne, Berbice, the police say that at about 2030h last night, police ranks went to a house at No.

Just over a year after being completed, the $77.7 million Sand Creek Secondary School in south central Rupununi has developed major cracks in the building and parents fear that the building could collapse, a resident of the area has said.

Story and photos by Kenesha Fraser In the early years, according to residents, a white man named Daniel, who owned the sugar factory in the village of Sparta on the Essequibo coast, bought land in the area nearby, and the place was later called ‘Danielstown’.

Some progress was made by government and APNU members of the parliamentary select committee examining the Anti-Money Laundering/ Combating the Financing of Terrorism  (Amendment) Bill during a six-hour meeting yesterday, but the talks will continue today to iron out two outstanding issues, Attorney General Anil Nandlall said last evening.

Police on the West Demerara are investigating the sexual molestation of a five-year-old girl and up to late yesterday afternoon, three persons were being questioned.

GPL’s Chinese-funded US$45 million Transmission Upgrade programme will not put an end to the company’s technical losses says Prime Minister Samuel Hinds who adds that about US$100 million more will be needed to work on secondary distribution circuits and feeders.

A 33-year-old Berbice man was taken into police custody for reportedly abducting a schoolgirl and sexually assaulting her on Thursday morning.

Following a three-day ‘awareness’ trip to the Cuyuni area, Region 7, the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) said it remains concerned about the conditions under which women in the interior are forced to work and about the number of young girls who are still being trafficked.

Political parties should be included under the ambit of new anti-money laundering laws, Accountant Christopher Ram has urged a parliamentary committee.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall has rejected a charge by Opposition Leader David Granger that the anti-money laundering amendment bill gives excessive powers to the Executive, saying that it is no different from similar legislation around the world.

The opposition has brought about real change, according to Opposition Leader David Granger, who says there has been a strengthened National Assembly and greater scrutiny of the executive despite constraints.

No clear government policy has yet been articulated as it relates to possible activities at the New River Triangle in southern Guyana.

Damaged fuel injectors for a generator that supplies electricity to Port Kaituma residents have resulted in a series of outages in the area over the past two weeks, but Regional Vice Chairman Fermin Singh said power will be restored by Wednesday the latest.