Guyana News

An Enmore vendor is now recovering in hospital following an early morning attack on his home by masked bandits.

A 59-year-old motorcyclist of Waterloo, Bath, West Coast Berbice lost his life after he was struck by a Toyota Caldina wagon, HC 1217 around 5:50 pm yesterday on the Bath Settlement public road.

Just days after considering buying a car, Enmore villager Francis Koo received a new Mazda Demio when he was named the second and final winner of Courts’ ‘TCL Gives you a Brand New Ride’ promotion yesterday.

Two men were remanded to prison yesterday after denying a charge that they robbed a woman of two cellphones.

The streets of Albouys-town remained covered in over six inches of water yesterday even as floodwaters receded around the rest of the city a day after incessant rainfall.

The Ministry of Health will be sending 11 children with life threatening cardiac problems overseas for surgery, as a result of a collaboration among the University of Calgary, Baby Heart (an international Non Governmental Organisation  and the Ministry, GINA said yesterday.

Two main pumps in Georgetown are not working plus at least one of the sluices along the Demerara River in the city is non-functional and the others are not working at 100 percent, compounding the drainage problems after the recent heavy rainfall.

The board of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is expected to vote on February 28, 2014 on a US$200 million debt package for Guyana Goldfields’ Aurora gold mine project.

Andrew Taylor, who said he was on drugs when he tried to drive off with another man’s car before crashing it into another vehicle, will be spending the next 56 months in jail after he pleaded guilty to a robbery with aggravation charge yesterday.

A $4 million crematorium site funded by overseas-based and local families was commissioned at Crabwood Creek, Corentyne on Sunday.

Thirty-three Toolsie Persaud Limited customers yesterday received late Christmas gifts following the drawing of the company’s Christmas 2013 Promotions last week.

The Kanuku Mountains Community Representa-tive Group (KMCRG) says it successfully held the fourth Rupununi Christmas Fair at the Market Place, Lethem, on  December 21, 2013.

The Ministry of Education today said that  after the receding of flood waters and clean up exercises, the following schools will be reopened tomorrow Thursday January 16, 2014: East Ruimveldt Secondary, Tutorial High School, North Georgetown Secondary, The Bishops High, Saints Stanislaus College, Comenius Primary, St Gabriel’s Primary, St Sidwell’s Primary, Starter’s Nursery, Some schools are not ready to be reopened tomorrow January 16, 2014, and as a result will remain closed.

The police ranks who have been accused of sexually brutalizing a man three weeks ago to the point where he still remains hospitalized, are to be transferred as police conduct a probe, according to Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell.

The body of a 16-year-old girl was found early yesterday morning with her throat slit in a creek aback her Kuru Kururu, Linden/Soesdyke Highway home and her 28-year-old lover in whose company she was last seen was found hanging in the afternoon, relatives say.

By Jeanna Pearson  Photos by Arian Browne   Georgetown was covered in floodwaters yesterday in a now regular pattern that follows heavy rains with residents once again riled up about the pile-up of garbage in drains and canals.

The Ministry of Education last evening said that 12 schools in Georgetown and one in Region Three will remain closed today as a result of severe rainfall which has caused flooding of their compounds.

After meeting separately with government and the United States embassy, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) has indicated to both parties that it believes that the $300M democracy project rejected by the Donald Ramotar administration should go ahead.

A student of the Auchlyne Primary School died after being struck down by a minibus while riding her bicycle on the Bloomfield public road, Corentyne yesterday.

A four-month-old baby girl was on Monday kidnapped from a Buxton, East Coast Demerara daycare centre by a teenager who pretended to be an aunt and following police investigations, the suspect was arrested and the infant reunited with her mother last evening.