Guyana News

Police yesterday destroyed four fields during a narcotics eradication operation, at Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke/Linden Highway.

The decomposing body of an elderly woman was yesterday morning discovered in her home at Middle Walk, Buxton, East Coast Demerara and police are awaiting a post-mortem examination to determine how she died.

A woman was hit down and killed yesterday afternoon while driving her bicycle along the Hibernia Public Road, Essequibo Coast.

Electricity supply in Berbice was disrupted today as a result of extensive structural damage caused by a vessel that ran into the Company’s pump house at Canefield Power Station, a release from the Guyana Power and Light said.

At about 1350h. today, police say that Lochanie Yaspaul, 52 years, of Hibernia Village, Essequibo Coast, was riding a bicycle along the Hibernia Public Road when she was struck down by a motor car that was travelling behind.

Police today said that Addisena Benjamin, 24, called “Yai” is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to the murder of Junior Joseph and the attempted murder of Lovern Williams which occurred on May 21, 2012.

(Trinidad Guardian) Security has been beefed up at the Maximum Security Prison, Arouca, after reports surfaced that emissaries of a Latin American drug cartel were planning the escape of alleged drug trafficker Edmund Quincy Muntslag.

Leader of the Opposition and APNU David Granger met with a group of overseas-based Guyanese in New York to discuss ‘the way forward’ for the country including with economist Tarron Khemraj who was associated with the AFC at the last elections.

A Campbellville youth, believed to be the mastermind behind recent robberies on the West Demerara area and Wakenaam island, is being sought by police, who on the heels of 17 arrests are confident that they have smashed the gang responsible for the attacks.

An East Coast Demerara man was crushed to death last night after the overloaded Route 48 minibus he was conducting slammed into a car at the intersection of Brickdam and Louisa Row before landing on its side.

ABC Academy Principal Bernard Chandra was yesterday charged and placed on $40,000 bail after he allegedly assaulted and threatened to kill his wife.

A jury yesterday convicted Guyana-born Gerard Lopes Belmonte, 23, of the murder of his adoptive mother, Natalie Belmonte, rejecting a defence claim that he had consensual sex with her and then passed out while someone else killed her.

A St Ignatius Secondary School student is reportedly clinging to his life in a Brazil hospital after he was stabbed by a schoolmate on Monday afternoon.

A diarrhoea outbreak in the Wai Wai village of Masakenari has claimed the life of a child but the outbreak has been successfully contained, the Guyana Informa-tion Agency (GINA) has reported.

Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh lauded the importance of investing in education at a bursary awards ceremony sponsored by Benjamin’s Bakery of Buxton in honour of six students who were successful at the recent National Grade Six Assessment.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after they were arraigned on robbery with violence charges, while one of the accused faced four additional charges.

A Fyrish lumberyard proprietrix was yesterday beaten and robbed by two men who visited the business place under the guise of customers and later escaped with an undisclosed sum of cash.

Two persons were yesterday granted bail and placed on a bond to keep the peace after they allegedly assaulted each other.

A security guard who was allegedly found selling drugs in a sting operation by the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) on Monday night was yesterday refused bail when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Chairman of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA) Board Ramesh Dookhoo says the airport modernisation project will continue from an allocation of US$20 million ‘mobilisation advance’ made under the 2012 national budget but is unable to say how far that amount will carry the US$138 million project.