Guyana News

The cops at the centre of a shocking baton rape allegation have denied committing the act, according to Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell.

x The number one accused in the murder of a US-based Guyanese man at Windsor Forest ran out of court yesterday after the jury returned a verdict of not guilty in his case while remaining conflicted as regards the three other defendants, who were then remanded pending retrial.

The intestinal injuries sustained by prisoner Colwyn Harding, who has accused a policeman of sodomising him with a baton, resulted after an operation for an incarcerated inguinal hernia, Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran told the National Assembly yesterday.

Persons found guilty of firearm-related crimes will be liable to pay up to $5 million in fines and/or subjected to as much as ten years imprisonment under the newly passed Firearms (Amendment) Bill which also takes aim at trafficking in guns and ammunition.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) MP Joseph Harmon says the questions he is asking of Prime Minister Samuel Hinds concerning the US$32 million fibre optic cable, E-Governance Project are inspired solely by the poor manner in which it is being run.

Colwyn Harding received some relief with the donation of colostomy bags even as just over a dozen citizens yesterday afternoon staged a protest opposite the Public Buildings to demand that the police in his alleged rape be brought before the court without delay and face an immediate trial.

The Private Sector Com-mission (PSC) yesterday said there is merit in a democracy project that the US is pursuing here and urged Georgetown and Washington to pursue an agreement for the benefit of the country.

While power has been restored for the most part, BOSAI Company Secretary, Norman McLean stated yesterday that Linden residents will still have to contend with some power disruptions until the interlocking circuit is fully functional.

The City Council is working to restore malfunctioning pumps in an attempt to avert further flooding in Georgetown, while funeral parlour owners say that burials are being cancelled because of the flooded Le Repentir cemetery.

The Guyana Bar Associa-tion has condemned “the alleged attack and egregious violations of the dignity and rights of Colwyn Harding” and has called for an immediate and independent probe of the matter.

Heavy rainfall over the past two days has led to yet another flood on the Essequibo Coast and in the Pomeroon River.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU)  on Wednesday restated its support for a `social contract’ as a means of attaining an inclusionary democracy.

The Guyana Telephone  and Telegraph Company (GT&T) yesterday signed a three-year sponsorship contract valued $9M with the Tourism and Hospi-tality Association of Guyana (THAG).

The Guyana Association of Women Lawyers (GAWL) has said that it supports the LEAD project sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and urges all stakeholders to encourage and foster dialogue on it to the benefit of the nation.

An optometrist was yesterday ordered to pay $250,000 in compensation or face eight months in prison after slashing the tyres of his wife’s vehicle and damaging her laptop.

Two weeks have passed and police are yet to identify a suspect in the murder of Rudranauth Jeeboo, whose body was found dumped in an isolated area at Caneview Avenue, South Ruimveldt.

Haiti is back on track, that was the message delivered by its plenipotentiary representative to Caricom, Peterson Benjamin Noel when presenting his credentials on Friday in Georgetown.

The National Library, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport on Wednesday evening launched its ‘Distinguished Lecture Series’ where one of Guyana’s literary icons, Arthur James Seymour was inducted into the Library’s Hall of Fame.

Local Government Minis-ter Ganga Persaud’s lawyers have been given an extra seven days to file an answer showing cause why his decision to appoint Carol Sooba as Town Clerk should not be quashed.

Bookland, formerly, the Georgetown Reading and Research Centre, has refined its literacy mission started two years ago of getting books into every household, to the more specific objective: ‘Getting Books in Every Household by January 2017,’ according to its director Rupert Hopkinson.