Guyana News

A Linden resident was yesterday granted bail after he was charged with wounding a man after a row over missing items.

Three men are presently in police custody, while two others managed to escape, after the police intercepted a car on the Ruby Access Road, East Bank Essequibo on Sunday evening and found an unlicensed pistol and ammunition among a quantity of suspicious items.

A Smithfield, New Amsterdam man was found with more than two kilogrammes (kg) of marijuana during a stop and search operation along the Weldaad Public Road on Monday.

Tenders were yesterday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for a consultancy for the upgrading of the Lethem aerodrome.

The Guyana Medical Relief (GMR), a non-profit organization based in Los Angeles, California says it saw 600 patients in its outreach at Mahaicony on Sunday.

A Buxton, East Coast Demerara resident was taken into custody on Monday, after the police conducted a search at his home and found two illegal handguns and a quantity of live ammunition and cannabis.

A 12-month sentence was yesterday imposed on a man who was previously charged with stabbing a woman during an argument.

President David Granger, this morning, met former Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Justice (Ret’d) James Patterson, who has since demitted office, a Ministry of the Presidency statement said this afternoon.

By Femi Harris-Smith While giving the government and the opposition more time to find common ground, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday set July 12th as the date when it will make orders based on its findings that the vote of no-confidence against the APNU+AFC administration was validly passed, thereby requiring elections, and that the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) was unlawfully appointed.

Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday ruled that Finance Minister Winston Jordan is to be jailed for 21 days if he fails to comply with a previously issued court order to pay Trinidad construction company Dipcon the more than US$2 million owed to it by the government for road construction works.

The opposition People’s Progressive Party is calling on President David Granger to order a “wider probe” into allegations of corruption within a section of the Guyana Police Force (GPF).

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday maintained that elections must be held within three months in keeping with the constitution, while insisting that the national house-to-house registration exercise being demanded by government is unnecessary and a ploy to hold on to power.

Joel Bond, the driver of the vehicle assigned to Mayor of Georgetown Ubraj Narine, was released yesterday on $100,000 bail after he was charged with causing the death of Buxton resident Mitford Cambridge following an accident along the Turkeyen Public Road almost two weeks ago.

The Mayor and City Councillors yesterday voted to have current Chief Engineer, Colvern Venture’s vacation leave postponed until the handover of the Engineer’s Department is complete and the Mayor receives responses to letters written to Venture months ago.

Twenty families who were squatting on a Broad and Lombard streets property, will soon have their homes constructed at Prospect housing scheme on the East Bank Demerara, thanks to funding from the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) and Food for the Poor (FFTP).

According to Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Karen Cummings, the Cuban Government has denied allegations that its security forces are exiling dissidents to Guyana.

A Canadian Chamber of Commerce will soon be launched in Guyana.

An ex-convict was refused bail yesterday after being faced with 11 charges, including nine counts of armed robbery.

Despite now having to lay off a number of staff due to a request from one of their longstanding clients, Emerge BPO, a local Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company, says that the move will not affect the recently announced plans for its new campus.

Several Region One communities will be subject to upgrades to their water infrastructure over the next two months, with many set to gain access to potable water for the first time.