Guyana News

Neville Thomas, the taxi driver who was charged with the rape of a 12-year-old girl, was yesterday committed to stand trial by a city magistrate at the conclusion of the Preliminary Inquiry into the charge.

A 28-year-old murder accused was freed yesterday after a judge upheld a no-case submission made by his attorney.

The Guyana Government (GoG) yesterday criticised an editorial appearing in the Trinidad Express and Barbados Nation over the weekend which flayed it for a press freedom attack on Stabroek News (SN) via the withdrawal of state advertising.

Witnessing the hacking to death of her two young children and surviving the most gruesome cutlass attack, that left her with a severed right hand, 26-year-old Nazaleena ‘Natasha’ Houston is still struggling to overcome the ordeal.

The Demerara Harbour Bridge Company (DHB) has taken legal action against the owner of the Panamanian tug that crashed into the Harbour Bridge in September and caused millions in damage.

The police have sought legal advice on possible charges against the suspects in last Monday’s robbery at the Matthews Ridge Airstrip, during which a quantity of raw gold was stolen, Crime Chief (ag) Michael Kingston has said.

A youth accused of unlawfully wounding a friend was granted bail yesterday after he denied the charge.

Troy Resources Guyana Inc has decided to terminate hundreds of employees while it continues to make efforts to restart operations.

–   151 were murdered by bandits –   239 killed during confrontations with police and in unexplained circumstances –   30 security officers lost their lives Introduction For more than 15 years, the number of persons who died in the violence that followed the February 23rd, 2002 Camp Street jailbreak and the circumstances of their deaths have been the sources of heated disputation.

Boat operators and commuters using the Charity Wharf on the Essequibo Coast, say it is on the verge of collapsing completely and could result in injuries if it is not fixed soon, while Regional Chairman, Devanand Ramdatt has deemed it “a disaster waiting to happen.”

Justice For All Party (JFAP) representative in the APNU+AFC coalition government, Jaipaul Sharma, says that he is willing to “sacrifice” his position in the alliance to facilitate a renewing of the Cummingsburg Accord.

Former President Donald Ramotar has expressed “disappointment” at the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) silence on the government’s constitutional violations saying that it lends credence to criticisms of others who question the organisation’s relevance.

Police in Lethem were yesterday morning summoned to the Tabatinga road in Lethem, Region Nine, where the headless body of a Brazilian man, which bore multiple stab wounds, was discovered.

Regional newspapers, the Trinidad Express and Barbados Nation have urged the David Granger administration to reconsider its actions towards Stabroek News regarding the withdrawal of government ads from the newspaper which it has called an attack on press freedom.

The island of Leguan, Region 3 is now better protected from overtopping with the reconstruction of the sea defence at Success.

The Guyana Bar Association has lauded the accomplishments of the late Chief Justice Ian Chang SC saying that he had made law his life.

Thirty-five employees of the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) who didn’t have a chance to complete high school are being given the opportunity to grapple with core subjects and to write CSEC exams.

The Christmas wish of a Berbice woman is to undergo a much needed surgery for a ruptured brain aneurysm and in order to do so, she is seeking the public’s help to raise funds to offset her expenses.

A Grant New Port, Pomeroon River, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) woman is seeking the public’s assistance in locating her 73-year-old mother who has been missing for two weeks now.

The type of mud available in Dantzig, Mahaicony, is affecting the construction of the earthen flood prevention dam, Head of the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) Frederick Flatts has said.