Guyana News

A Linden chicken farmer who allegedly robbed three persons living in Kuru Kururu while threatening them with a cutlass was remanded to prison on Friday after he was charged with armed robbery.

The National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) is notifying importers of Romaine lettuce of a temporary restriction on the commodity over concerns about the bacteria E.

Kevin Bruce, who was recently accused of pulling a gun on a policeman at a city station, yesterday learned that he will be spending the next two years in jail for having an unlicensed gun and ammunition.

Police in Region Five are moving to seek legal advice on possible charges over the killing of Bushy Park, East Coast Demerara (ECD) farmer David Micah.

A Mon Repos fisherman has been missing since last Thursday when he fell overboard into the Demerara River.

A 24-year-old farmer who was allegedly found with 300 grammes of cannabis when police were attempting to arrest him for threatening a Friendship resident was granted bail on Friday after he denied all the charges against him.

Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman and a team visited and provided assistance to a Region Eight family last Thursday after complaints were made about them being unfairly treated by a miner in the area.

A security guard was released on $100,000 bail last Friday after he denied firing a shotgun in public and causing injuries to a woman who was hit in her eye and knee.

A youth is now remanded to prison after a city court heard that he went back to the location, where he allegedly committed a robbery, to seek employment.

A minibus driver was released on bail on Friday after he denied wounding a man during a fight on Hadfield Street.

A man was sentenced to two years and six months in prison for breaking into a home and stealing a quantity of items amounting to over three hundred thousand dollars.

Several armed men last evening attempted to rob a moneychanger at Number 69 Village, Corentyne and one of them may have been wounded.

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.

A Bushy Park, East Coast Demerara (ECD) farmer was brutally chopped to death on Saturday night after he tried to calm a man who was allegedly on his way to attack another man.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) is anticipating that consensus on the terms of a new Cummingsburg Accord could be reached by the end of this week with its coalition partner A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and has set next Sunday as the date by which that agreement would be signed.

Water from the recent spring tides that flooded yards and farmlands in the villages of Harmony Hall, Rebecca’s Rust and surrounding areas have begun to recede and residents are calling on the Ministry of Public Health to conduct a medical outreach in the affected communities to treat persons who may have contracted any diseases.

A Diamond, East Bank Demerara, man who was arrested in Berbice on Saturday for allegedly raping a young relative, hanged himself in the Whim Police Station lockups hours after being arrested.

The procurement process for a firm to audit the more than US$960 million ExxonMobil said it racked up in pre-contract costs here is nearly completed, Director of the Department of Energy Dr Mark Bynoe says.

It would be illegal to merge data from the recent house-to-house registration process with existing electoral lists and any attempt will “contaminate the entire electoral process,” former Attorney General and PPP/C executive Anil Nandlall says.

A teen’s celebration of his 18th birthday ended tragically when his bloodied body was found on a road, hours after he left a bar in Aranaputa, Region Nine.