Guyana News

A 24-year-old Aishalton resident is currently in a stable condition after he was stabbed with a knife by a relative at a farmhouse.

A two-day meeting between CARICOM and the United Nations opened yesterday and it is expected to focus on areas of economic and sustainable development for CARICOM, including debt sustainability and financing for development, which will touch on the issues of blacklisting and the withdrawal of correspondent banking relations, CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque has said.

Omalo Dick, who was charged last month with stealing 170 pounds of chicken, was yesterday sentenced in his absence to six months in prison for the crime.

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) has launched an investigation to determine whether a vessel on which a large amount of cocaine was seized in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) is registered in Guyana.

President David Granger returned to Guyana earlier today after his scheduled medical evaluation at the Centro de Investigaciones Medico Quirurgicas (CJMEQ) in Havana, a release from the Guyana Embassy in Cuba said.

(Trinidad Newsday) The Government is insisting on a stance on non-interference in the political impasse in Guyana.

CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque today said that the Secretariat continues to closely monitor the situation in Guyana but that it would only intervene if the democratic and judicial processes break down and if both parties – government and opposition -deem it necessary.

Attorney and chartered accountant Christopher Ram has moved to the High Court for an order to stop the national house-to-house registration exercise that is currently being conducted by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), while saying that it is being undertaken in violation of the Constitution.

Breaking his silence on the decision to proceed with the start of national house-to-house registration, Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield has advised the Private Sector Commission (PSC) that the process was based on the directions of the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) and will continue until further direction is received from a “duly constituted” Commission.

While warning that the ongoing national house-to-house registration exercise “threatens peace and stability,” the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday said it would not accept any voters’ lists generated by the activity.

Expressing concern about the call by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo for PPP supporters to not participate in the ongoing house-to-house registration exercise, the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) has warned that such action is unlawful and could have negative consequences.

A Corentyne woman died yesterday afternoon in a fire that she started to torch the house she shared with her husband and two children.

A South Sophia man is now dead after he was shot to the neck during a confrontation at a pool party in the wee hours of Sunday morning.

A Guyanese woman is now being held in custody in Trinidad after she allegedly misbehaved while on a flight to the island.

The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) has rejected a proposal floated to apply a 40 per cent Common External Tariff (CET) to refined sugar entering the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), while warning that refined sugar-dependent companies could be forced to close and jobs lost.

Director of the State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA) Professor Clive Thomas has said that unless the police force files court action against those involved in the smuggling of 476 pounds of gold to Curaçao, the gold will remain in the possession of the island’s government.

A fire of unknown origin gutted the home of a pensioner and seven others at Middle Road, La Penitence yesterday afternoon.

A minibus driver was yesterday charged with causing the deaths of two of his passengers who died after his bus toppled along the Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara Public Road in May.

A pregnant woman is now free on $5,000 bail after she denied dousing a People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) supporter with dirty water during a protest last Friday.

Royston Rowe, who was recently released from prison after serving two years for armed robbery, is now back behind bars after being charged with the unlawful possession of a gun.