Guyana News

Minister of Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh, is calling for more involvement by civil society to foster and promote social programmes.

With the installation of an elevator to combat overcrowding of its exit, management of the Gravity Nightclub has assured that they are ready to deal with evacuation emergencies.

At about 2115h last night, police say that Paul Hutson, 43 years, of ‘C’ Field, Sophia, had just returned home when he was held at gunpoint by a man.

Police ranks have been dispatched to Sandhills, Cuyuni, following a report received that the decomposed bodies of a man and a woman, suspected to be Brazilian Nationals, were found tied up at Sandhills, a statement from the police said today.

At about 2130h last night, police say that miner Vivian La Cruz, 31 years, of Zeeburg, WCD, who was a prisoner at the Acquero Police Station, NWD, was found hanging from a metal bar in his cell by one of the legs of his pants.

Twenty-three plot holders in the MMA scheme who owe around $15M to the authority have been publicly warned that they must pay up immediately or risk the reallocation of the roughly 855 acres of tracts to others.

Minister of Works Robeson Benn says his ministry has denied approval to an application by Muri Brasil Ventures Inc to construct an airstrip to facilitate the aerial phase of its survey for rare earth elements, gold, diamonds and other minerals in the New River Triangle.

 Story by Jeanna Pearson with photos by Arian Browne   Approximately eight miles from Georgetown poverty-stricken Indian families are crammed into small dilapidated shacks along a dam near the banks of the Chateau Margot seawall.

A popular Linden businessman was pronounced dead at the Linden Hospital Complex one hour after he was fished from the Demerara River in the vicinity of the Wismar-Mackenzie Bridge yesterday.

Two men were killed last evening when the vehicle they were travelling in crashed head on into a low-bed trailer on the Canal No 2, West Bank Demerara Road.

A Pegasus taxi driver’s body was found dumped in a garbage heap early yesterday morning at Cane View Avenue, South Ruimveldt, with marks of violence to his head.

Natalie Caseley felt proud when the doctor who gave her four-year-old, who was still alert after two doses of anaesthesia, commented that the child was being fed well and was a strong boy.

Panther Recycling Corporation of Ontario Canada on Friday formally submitted its proposal for the construction of a $6 billion modular solar waste recycling facility; it also proposes to build for free, a modern morgue for the capital.

A post-mortem examination (PME) conducted on Sunita Lall confirmed that she bled to death as a result of a wounded throat.

Theiana Andrews, the teenage girl who was shot dead at Moraikobai, Mahaicony Mission around 2 am on Thursday had recently graduated from a forestry course and was expecting a job in that sector.

The Home Affairs Ministry says the shooting death of a construction worker alle-gedly by a member of the Belle Vue Community Policing Group will be investigated with “the expectation of having a satisfactory outcome.”

Two months after the South Road shooting that left three men dead, police are still conducting investigations and one of the fathers of the dead men said that while his son was “not innocent”, he did not deserve to die the way he did.

Minister of Local Government Ganga Persaud said the councillors of the Georgetown Municipality must first make a request to him before the ministry facilitates mayoral elections.

Detective Constable 19182 Andel Doris, who was accidentally shot in the leg by another rank yesterday, at the Fort Wellington Police Station, has been admitted as a patient at the Fort Wellington Hospital for medical treatment.

Three-year-old Jasmine Joseph is still in a critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation but relatives say that she has regained consciousness.