Marcelle Thomas

Guyana’s Attorney General and the Director of Public Prosecutions are among senior legal officials who have rejected a suggestion by Senior Counsel, Ralph Ramkarran that jury trials should be abolished.

The five men held in connection with Sunday’s Pomeroon River pirate attack have been released on station bail pending advice on possible charges from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

Story and photo by Marcelle Thomas A horrific smash-up yesterday afternoon involving two Route 42 minibuses, at Coverden, East Bank Demerara (EBD) has left three residents of Kuru-Kururu in critical condition, while several others sustained minor injuries.

The baby girl born to Chitrawattie Ramjiwan, the 20-year-old woman who died in transit from the Fort Wellington Hospital to the New Amsterdam Hospital following delivery complications, succumbed on Monday evening at the Georgetown Public Hospital where she was being kept for observation.

Regarded as the best local sculptor of his time, the body of Philip Moore was yesterday interred at Auchlyne, Corentyne after stirring tributes and pledges to ensure he is finally laid to rest at Seven Ponds, Place of Heroes in the city.

Government yesterday declared zero tolerance for illegal mining and for the corrupt processing of documents for non-nationals, informing that from now all middlemen and brokers have been eliminated.

Renowned artist and sculptor Phillip Moore, famous for the towering 1763 monument at the Square of the Revolution, died yesterday at his Lancaster, Berbice home in his sleep.

The police are investigating Wednesday night’s shooting incident in Sophia, where a mother of nine collapsed and died shortly after police ranks fired several shots in an open area where residents were present.

A Sophia mother of nine dropped dead last evening after police fired several shots in an open area with civilians, a short distance from her home.

Even as 80 newly-trained health care professionals from the Technical Division of Health Sciences Education prepare to embark on a new career path, they and their coordinators are calling for an increase in the  $5,000 a month stipend for trainees.

The Agricola family, which lost its fence and front stairway on Sunday afternoon after a car  careened off road and slammed into it, is asking who will pay for the damages since the driver has signalled reluctance.

The dentist who extracted the tooth of a man, who later died at the Georgetown Public Hospital of haemorrhaging and a blot clot in the brain, believes his life could have been saved if he had seen a specialist while admitted to the facility.

Although she was allegedly beaten unconscious with a hammer by her partner, Eurika Garraway yesterday said that she still loves him, still believes he will change and that she will stand by his side.

Some participants have left the 13th Caribbean Sustainable Tourism Conference (STC) with perplexing reactions about the contrasting conditions of Guyana’s environment- a garbage strewn capital and a pristine rainforest.

Despite assurances that there would have been significant participation on the final day of the Caribbean Sustainable Tourism Conference being held here just a handful of hurriedly mobilized University of Guyana students were present yesterday and they did not actively participate in the session.

Amid concerns that there are few local participants and youths at the 13th Sustainable Tourism Conference being held here, Secretary General of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) Hugh Riley said local economic constraints were taken into account by planners of the event and it is the first time youths were not involved.

An argument over a hammock has left a miner from the Five Star Backdam, in the North West District of Region One dead, in the latest incident that has raised concern over the growing violence in the interior area.

A West Bank Demerara man is nursing injuries to his face suffered at the hands of three armed robbers who on Wednesday evening invaded the Best Village home of his employer, terrorized two other workers and made off with over $4M in local and foreign currency along with the home owner’s gun.

Barbers who operate around the city bus parks and the Stabroek Market area were yesterday ordered to immediately cease operations or face prosecution, but the men are calling this move “irrational” and “vindictive”.

Even as the Guyana School of Nursing prepares to more students come early next month, many are expressing concern at the staggering 80.5% failure rate among its last batch.