Guyana News

The National Assembly yesterday reflected on the achievements of former parliamentarian Abdul Kadir, who died in a United States prison after being convicted of terrorism-related offences.

Dinesh Dias, one of the four men arrested by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) on Tuesday night after a fire extinguisher filled with cocaine was found, yesterday took full responsibility for the narcotics and he was sentenced to four years in jail and fined just over $5 million for the crime.

Peter Ramcharran, the former Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) accountant who was faced with 39 counts of fraud after being deported from Canada last month, yesterday pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.

Umadat Persaud, the driver who struck and killed 30-year-old Angelle Barry on Sunday along the Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara (WBD) Public Road, was on Thursday granted $500,000 bail after denying that he caused her death by dangerous driving.

The reading of an attempted murder charge against Nigel Henry and Jermaine Alonzo, the two men who allegedly attacked gold miner Oris Moonsammy at Baramita, in Region One, has been deferred until next month after police were unable to secure a translator who could relate the allegations to the men.

Fugitive Troy Thomas was finally arraigned in a United States court on Thursday for the 2011 murder of a man in Queens, New York.

Against the backdrop of the extradition of an American fugitive to New York, United States Ambassador to Guyana Sarah-Ann Lynch last evening pledged her country’s continued support on the security front.

If government had stuck to the original Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion design, there would have been no reason to implement the recent $7,000 roundtrip security fee since the increase in traffic would have absorbed expenses, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo says.

A visiting doctor and nurse from Ghana have been performing cataract surgeries at the National Ophthalmology Hospital (NOH) at Port Mourant, Corentyne.

The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) yesterday launched its second annual Health Expo and is seeking to target a larger audience.

Attorney General Basil Williams has announced that Guyana will begin implementation of the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption by the start of June.

The police in ‘A’ Division are on the hunt for two suspects who allegedly shot and injured two men, including a passer-by, during a misunderstanding on Thursday at the corner of D’Urban Street and Mandela Avenue.

The body of security guard Mohammed Al Rasheed, who fell into the Demerara River on Wednesday, has been recovered and an autopsy has confirmed that he drowned.

Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) yesterday blamed a circuit breaker fault at the Garden of Eden Power Plant for the shutdown of the Demerara-Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS) that left its customers without power on Thursday.

Transparency Institute Guyana Inc today said that conflict of interest here is  a huge problem.

  Four new APNU+AFC coalition Members of Parliament (MPs) were sworn in this afternoon, when the National Assembly reconvened.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has dismissed an application filed by attorney Sanjeev Datadin on behalf of former government parliamentarian Charrandass Persaud to prevent today’s planned sitting of the National Assembly.

Following more charges against it by the opposition PPP,  the media company owned by Public Telecommunications Minister Catherine Hughes appears to have confirmed that it placed advertisements on behalf of her ministry and others.

President David Granger yesterday named two new members of Cabinet and reassigned four others following the resignation of those Ministers who hold dual citizenship.

A 22-year-old cabbage farmer was yesterday charged with the murder of 18-year-old David Toney, who he is accused of fatally stabbing during an altercation over payment at the Timehri docks for loading produce onto a truck last week.