Guyana News

Donald Rodney, brother of historian and politician Dr. Walter Rodney who was assassinated back in 1980, is seeking to appeal his 1982 conviction for possession of explosives without lawful authority.

A 24-year-old pillion rider is now dead and the motorbiker is hospitalised, after the bike on which they were travelling was involved in an accident along the 111 Miles Mahdia, Potaro Road early yesterday morning.

Large sections of the East Coast of Demerara suffered long hours without electricity yesterday, after the Guyana Power and Light Inc.

Thirty-eight-year-old businessman Ryan Sugrim, was yesterday remanded to prison for the murder of his wife, Zaila Sugrim.

A total of seven vehicles were severely damaged yesterday morning, after an alleged speeding driver lost control of his car along the Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara Public Road.

More than a week after 20-year-old Patrick Fraser was gunned down while liming with friends at an abandoned house in Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara, the police have arrested one suspect and are on the hunt for another.

Following a decision by the Finance Committee of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) the city’s Rates Collection Unit will from Thursday take to the streets in an attempt to recover some $8.4 billion in rates owned to council.

Residents of Black Bush Polder yesterday told Stabroek News that they “slept sound” on Sunday evening, after B Division’s lawmen moved into the backlands and killed three suspected bandits during a shootout that afternoon.

The trial against attorney Ryan Crawford, in relation to offences racked up during a controversial traffic stop last year, is set to continue on July 29, at the Mahaicony Magistrate’s Court.

The second and third lotteries to facilitate the distribution of medium scale mining blocks, are scheduled for this Friday, May 24 in Port Kaituma, and June 14, in Bartica.

When the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) meets today it will discuss the contents of the Ethnic Relations Com-mission’s (ERC) report into its hiring practices but another report which has proved controversial; a legal opinion by its own Legal Officer Excellence Dazzell has not made the agenda circulated to members.

The Ministry of Education’s (MoE) Unit for the Blind yesterday launched a week of activities in observance of Blindness Awareness Month 2019.

A mason was today charged with the murder of Antonio Dos Santos, who was shot in front of a nightspot in Bartica.

Police yesterday shot and killed three suspected bandits in the Johanna, Black Bush Polder back-lands, who they believe are part of a gang responsible for a spate of robberies on the Corentyne over the past month.

A West Demerara taxi driver was yesterday morning found dead with her head partially submerged in a trench among a clump of bushes at Lust-en-Rust, Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara (WBD) and the car she drove is missing Dead is Indira Bipat called `Jenny’, 47, a mother of two of Samaroo Dam, Klien-Pouderoyen, WBD.

Saying that errant public officials including ministers have been given enough time to declare their assets and liabilities, opposition parliamentarian Anil Nandlall on Friday  called on the Integrity Commission to commence legal proceedings.

A Diamond, East Bank Demerara family was left traumatised after four bandits pounced on them while they were having a celebration on Saturday night, beating and robbing them of valuables and cash.

Two Corentyne schoolgirls have fallen ill after two male classmates allegedly threw an unknown substance into their drink and water bottles late last week.

With expected production just months away, CNOOC Petroleum Guyana Limited (CPGL) has advertised for a Liftings/Operations Coordinator who will oversee the collection of the company’s share of oil.

Three bandits, who were armed with a gun and crowbars, pounced on a Mibicuri South, Black Bush Polder woman on Saturday, beating her and robbing her of money and a quantity of jewellery before escaping.