Guyana News

Leonard Albert, a 46-year-old Port Kaituma cook, was yesterday sentenced to 23 years in prison for the rape of a six-year-old boy.

Guyana Water Incorpo-rated (GWI) customers will have to pay increased rates from October 1st as the company will be instituting the second phase of tariff increases approved by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) last year.

A West Coast Berbice man was found dead on a dam aback of Naarstigheid Village, West Coast Berbice, with a suspected bullet wound at the back of his head yesterday morning.

Following a visit to hurricane-hit  Bahamas by a CARICOM high level delegation yesterday, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has allocated almost US$ 1 million in relief funds for the government and the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) has deployed three Emergency Medical Teams which will focus on clinical care for survivors.

Bar owner Freeman Fordyce has been freed of a charge of assaulting a policeman after the lawman in question failed to show up at the court hearings. 

A construction worker, who is wanted in Canada for a series of charges including attempted murder, was one of two men jointly charged in a city court yesterday with conspiracy to forge documents and uttering forged documents.

A hire car driver has since been placed into police custody after he allegedly ran over a vagrant with his motor car on the New Amsterdam Public Road.

A decision on former Town Clerk Royston King’s challenge to his dismissal as Town Clerk by the Local Government Commission (LGC) is expected to be made by the High Court next Friday.

The city garbage collection schedule has returned to a state of normalcy according to Mayor and City Council’s Public Relations Officer Debra Lewis.

The suspect in the murder of 18-year-old Rivaldo Williams is expected to surrender to the police today for questioning, with his attorney, Bernard Da Silva.

The issue over the development of a community ground at De Kinderen, West Coast of Demerara, has been resolved, the Department of Public Information (DPI) has reported.

A Williamsburg Village, Corentyne, mason was yesterday found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter at the High Court in Berbice.

The opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic has once again called on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to begin preparation for elections now.

Two Guyanese teachers who were in The Bahamas when Hurricane Dorian devastated that island chain have been found safe and sound.

The Guyanese man who was arrested in Queens Village, New York for allegedly setting fire to a house around 11 pm on Tuesday, killing 63-year-old Bibi Jazmin, was said to be her co-tenant and her niece’s boyfriend. 

An unemployed youth was yesterday sentenced to two years behind bars after he admitted to charges of obtaining money by fraud and escaping from police custody.

Police prosecutors on Wednesday, closed a narcotics possession case after the last witness’ testimony was completed.

Magistrate Judy Latchman yesterday remanded three men to prison after they plead not guilty to a joint charge which stated that they attempted to rob a resident of Republic Gardens.

In a short while, yet another group of creative people from the agro processing and craft sectors, predominantly, will be heading for a high profile product display and marketing opportunity in the United States.

A man was on Wednesday remanded to prison after he was charged with wounding another person, who now remains hospitalised in a critical condition.