Guyana News

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.

Two young men who share the same address were yesterday bonded to keep the peace after they were granted bail for assaulting each other.

Suspected robber Kirk Bacchus, who was wearing a t-shirt with a Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) logo at the time he was shot dead by police on Monday, was not an employee of the utility company.

Following the deaths of two of its members this month, the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) says it is concerned for all of Guyana’s law-abiding citizens.

A Chinese company is set to edify and prepare local agricultural entrepreneurs at the upcoming GuyExpo to find more efficient, technological and innovative ways in both production and marketing.

Both the East Bank and East Coast four-lane extension projects which are currently ongoing ought to be completed by June of 2014, according to the Work Ministry’s Manager of Roads and Bridges Department, Ron Rahaman.

As it prepares to launch a fitness campaign, the Ministry of Health’s Chronic Disease Unit (CDU) will host a workshop for gym instructors/group leaders tomorrow from 10:00 hrs at the Regency Suites, Hadfield Street.

The Government of Guyana welcomes the agreement between the USA and Russia which “averted a humanitarian disaster had an attack on Syria been launched.”