Guyana News

A mechanic and a mortician, who were charged with possession of around half a pound of marijuana late last year, were freed after the charge against them was dismissed yesterday.

Fifteen youths who made up the 11th batch of apprentices in Republic Bank Guyana’s Youth Link Apprenticeship programme, graduated yesterday.

Two fraud charges against a taxi driver were dismissed by a city magistrate yesterday.

The Mayor and City Council was on Monday briefed on an incident involving a city food shop that was ordered to undergo cleaning, after an inspection by the Food and Hygiene Department revealed substandard conditions.

After homeowners registered complaints about structural imperfections at their Perseverance, East Bank Demerara homes, Minister within the Ministry of Communities, Annette Ferguson, on Tuesday assured them that corrective works will begin on the houses within a week’s time.

The Caribbean College of Surgeons (CCOS) has successfully trained four specialist surgeons attached to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s (GPHC) Department of Surgery, to perform thyroidectomy procedures.

A youth who was found guilty of stealing a gold chain will be spending the next six months in jail.

The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) has dispatched two excavators to clear the foreshore at Number 43 Village, a move meant to improve drainage in Black Bush Polder.

People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Executive Juan Edghill yesterday condemned government plans to initiate Budget 2020 but the Ministry of Finance (MoF) justified its actions, saying it is simply planning. 

A 62-year sentence was yesterday handed down to an emotionless 22-year-old  man who, weeks before said he wanted to be honest with the court about having raped three females—two children and an adult.

With the country waiting years for this development, the Guyana Forensic Science Laboratory (GFSL) will on Friday commence DNA testing of several samples from crime scenes following the acquisition of a key piece of equipment and the training of four staff members in its use.

Even as he sought to reassure the public that the allegations made against Crime Chief Lyndon Alves will be properly probed and the truth found, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday said that he sees nothing wrong with the force’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) conducting the investigation.

Civil group, ‘Mourning Family and Friends in White’, yesterday staged a protest outside the office of the leader of the opposition Bharrat Jagdeo, and called on the government to launch an investigation into the extrajudicial killings that happened under the PPP/C administration.

Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, has filed an appeal to the ruling handed down by Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, ordering that he be jailed for 21 days if he fails to pay over to Trinidad construction company Dipcon, the more than US$2 million owed by government for road construction works.         

Armed bandits invaded a Campbellville, George-town house in broad daylight yesterday and attacked a 48-year-old Indian national before carting off $1.3M in cash and a quantity of gold jewellery.

Later this afternoon, 59-year-old Mahadeo Dasrat will be sentenced for the offence of raping a woman two years ago.

Makeup artist, Lolita Callender, known as ‘Lola,’ was yesterday sentenced to six months in prison by a British Virgin Islands court.

An autopsy yesterday confirmed that Vickram Brijmohan, the 22-year-old who was discovered dead in his Good Hope, East Coast Demerara home last Sunday with a cord around his neck, took his own life.

An Enmore, East Coast Demerara fisherman is currently confined to bed due to injuries he suffered last Thursday when he was attacked and robbed some 200 feet from his home.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) yesterday said that persons trespassing on its La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Demerara compound would be prosecuted.