Guyana News

The driver of a Route 42 (Georgetown – Timehri) minibus is now dead and 11 of his passengers are nursing injuries after they collided head on with a pick-up along with New Hope, East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road early yesterday morning.

A 27-year-old mother of two succumbed at a city hospital on Wednesday morning, 11 days after she was struck down by a car while crossing the Chateau Margot, East Coast Deme-rara (ECD) Public Road.

A Tain Settlement motorcyclist died on Thursday evening after he collided with a hire car along the Clifton, Corentyne Public Road.

Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman on Wednesday announced planned salary increases for the staff of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC).

Workers from Guyana Goldfields Inc’s Aurora Gold Mine (AGM) are currently preparing letters to send to the Ministry of Social Protection’s Department of Labour and the company, giving them one month’s notice of a pending strike if the issues preventing them from being unionised are not sorted out as soon as possible.

Government has been discussing reconvening sittings of the National Assembly, Vice Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Dr George Norton said yesterday.

By the end of July, almost 400,000 ounces of gold had been declared for the year, which Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman has said represents a “stead and pleasing upward trend” after a decline last year.

A 26-year-old bus conductor, who held an overseas visitor at knifepoint and robbed him of his phone, was yesterday sentenced to two years in prison after he pleaded guilty to armed robbery.

Haniff Peters, one of the persons accused of stealing more than $1 million from the Woodlands Hospital, was yesterday sentenced to two years in jail, while his accomplice, Susan Daniels, was handed a two-year suspended sentence after the court found them both guilty of the offence.

Days after her fellow inmate Revelana Smith was sentenced to nine months in prison for unlawfully wounding her, the court ruled that Savita Persaud was merely defending herself against her attacker and dismissed the assault charge against her.

Kacey Chapman, one of three men jointly charged with illegal possession of guns and ammunition, was yesterday found guilty of the crime.

A fire, suspected to be electrical in origin, destroyed the one-storey wooden home of a Cliftom family yesterday morning.

The police are seeking the assistance of the public to locate a 25-year-old man who is wanted in connection with the murder of Bartica resident Perion Nicholas Bobb, who was shot and killed more than three months ago.

A father is hopeful that his son can recover and become fully responsive from injuries that he received on the morning just over two months ago.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday issued wanted bulletins for three men who are accused of rape in separate attacks in Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice).

The police today issued wanted bulletins for four men in connection with murder and rape probes.

With evidence of soaring real estate prices and the buyout of most riverfront lands along the Demerara River in Region 4 for the oil industry, Minister of Finance Winston Jordan says that it cannot be dismissed that the feared Dutch Disease is already here in Guyana.

With new GECOM Chairman, Justice (rtd) Claudette Singh having to make a decision soon on the controversial house-to-house (HtH) registration currently underway, the last such exercise took six months in 2008 raising questions about whether the current projected three-month time frame is viable.

A West Coast Berbice pedestrian died and a pedal cyclist has been hospitalised at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after they were struck along the Number 42 Village, West Coast Berbice Public Road yesterday morning.

The Ministry of Natural Resources is to receive a report on the possible implications here of the death of Indian business magnate V.