Guyana News

Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc (TIGI) on Tuesday told a visiting Organization of American States (OAS) team here for a review of Guyana’s actions under the Inter-American Convention Against Corrup-tion that there is a serious conflict of interest around Finance Minister, Dr Ashni Singh and his wife which must be resolved.

Seven men charged with the Rose Hall vigilante killing in May were freed yesterday but soon came under gunfire from lawmen who mistakenly believed that they were escaping from the Whim Magistrate’s Court.

Businessman Salim Azeez was on Tuesday detained in connection with police investigations into the fatal shooting at Mambo Bar but was released less than 24 hours later after his lawyers filed Habeas Corpus proceedings.

The Berbice Bridge Com-pany Inc (BBCI) yesterday advised business analyst Christopher Ram that it would be charging him $50,000 per record requested, a tariff Ram described as “criminal”.

Reacting to the landmark decision by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in favour of Shanique Myrie,  Caricom Secretary General Irwin LaRocque has called on members states which have not yet done so to make the CCJ their final court of appeal.

A day after 43-year-old Chattergoon Persaud, of 458 Church Street, Enterprise, was found dead in Enterprise, police are yet to apprehend the man who is believed to have murdered him.

The Private Sector Com-mission (PSC) on Tuesday neglected to attend a meeting with a Commission from the OAS Mechanism for Follow-Up on the implementation of the Inter-American Conven-tion against Corruption (MESICIC) and past     PSC Chairman Ramesh Dookhoo says the umbrella body dropped the ball.

Guyanese can now benefit from the services of another medical laboratory with the opening of the QualiTEST Brand Laboratory in Alberttown on Tuesday evening.

Relatives of Clifford Singh, believed to have been beaten to death by his partner almost two months ago, say that police are dragging their feet on finding the suspect and are not treating tips given to them seriously.

Lucille Ingram, the 66-year-old Sophia woman who went missing two weeks ago during a visit to the Georgetown Hospital, has still not been found and her sister continues to plead with the public to help find her.

An 18-year-old bus conductor was fined yesterday after pleading guilty to threatening and assaulting his common-law wife.

An Agricola woman was yesterday remanded to prison when she was brought before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on a charge for possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

The Guyana Water Inc has signed on to GT&T’s Mobile Money service paving the way for customers’ payments of water bills using their cellular phones.

Even as the mother of Michael Hamilton, who was gunned down on Monday evening, continues to accuse the police of failing to act on previous reports that her son was being threatened, a lawman close to the investigation says that she never cooperated when they responded.

A local craftswoman, who designs jewellery from seeds, is appealing for assistance to make her participation in the Crafts of America Festival in Ecuador a reality.

More than one year since the launch of Guyana’s first grid-connected solar photovoltaic net-metering system, the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) has announced that it has saved more than $1M in electricity costs.

The construction of a $31.8M teaching block at the St Agnes Primary School should bring additional relief for students of the school who over the years had been in dispute with St Rose’s High with which they share a compound.

A mechanic was slapped with 36 months imprisonment yesterday for stealing a Kindle (an electronic book reader) after pleading guilty at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

One million dollars in loan prizes were awarded on October 4, 2013 at a simple award ceremony held at the Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited’s Corporate and Commercial Credit Department at the Camp Street branch to the top three 2013 graduates of Empretec’s ‘Venture Out for Women.’

Stravo Evans, who was indicted for the murder of Pascal Johnson in 2010, was freed on September 17, by Justice Navindra Singh after he was found not guilty by a 12-member jury.