Guyana News

With uncertainty still clouding who shot Detective Corporal Seburn Elias on Monday, ballistic tests on warheads that would be retrieved from his body during an autopsy today are expected to determine whether it was one of his colleagues or the fleeing prisoner he was pursuing at the time.

A fire started by children playing with matches levelled the home of a family of 11 at Good Intent, West Bank Demerara yesterday.

The Guyana-Brazil Asso-ciation has expressed concern over the murder of three of their members in two days in the interior and Crime Chief Seelall Persaud says the cases are not of profiling but of robberies.

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Lance Corporal, accused of stealing an army-issued handgun, was remanded to prison yesterday.

The police have been given a further 72 hours to detain five youths held in connection with the  murder of Rafael Campbell, according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud who said that from all indications the killing may have been sparked by a dispute over the payment of the taxi fare.

Some residents of Reid Avenue, Timehri, East Bank Demerara, an area commonly known as ‘Alliance Road,’ yesterday protested for a new access road, saying that the stretch of roadway along which they live has been neglected for years.

Customs officials yesterday descended on several businesses in the Orange Walk area and confiscated a quantity of beverages from at least two liquor shops.

An overseas-based Guyanese was up to press time being treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation for stab wounds he suffered at the hands of another man.

Culture Minister Frank Anthony has said that renovating the National Cultural Centre (NCC) could cost up to $80 million, while lamenting that the facility has not been earning.

A Sisters Village, East Bank Berbice man, believed to be mentally unstable, has been missing since mid-November last year, according to his brother.

The family of a 16-year-old girl, who left home and has not returned since Christmas Eve night last year, is pleading for help to secure her return home.

Three men were yesterday brought before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts to face charges of unlawful wounding and common assault after a fender bender in the city reportedly escalated into a street fight.

A passenger on an outgoing flight to Canada was yesterday arrested at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri after a search unearthed a quantity of cocaine concealed in the false bottoms of his suitcases.

Region Six Chairman David Armogan says floodwaters have receded at Black Bush Polder (BBP) and at Liverpool, Corentyne where all drainage systems are functioning and mini excavators have been put into operation to enhance drainage.

Major road repairs are set for regions two to six as several tenders were yesterday received at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), Ministry of Finance compound, Main and Urquhart streets.

A post-mortem examination performed on the body of Judith Singh by Pathologist, Nehaul Singh yesterday revealed that she died from a stab wound to the chest, a release from the police said.

Two brothers, one accused of stealing fake eyelashes and the other a toy gun, were each granted $30,000 bail yesterday.

Sherlock Reid was on Monday charged with possession of cocaine for trafficking after he allegedly tried to dupe two men into mailing over two pounds of the drug, hidden in bible cases, to Antigua for him.

Yogeshwarlall Hardeo received a 12-month-prison sentence and a reminder to honour his parents after he pleaded guilty yesterday to threatening and cursing his mother.

A Guyanese man has been jailed for 20 years in Ghana for cocaine trafficking and three others are to face trial later this month, according to a report on Ghanaweb.com.