Guyana News

Scores of persons on Friday evening turned up at Parade Ground for the APNU+AFC’s “Too legit to quit” youth rally.

Bail was on Friday granted to a Linden resident, who was accused of trafficking cocaine and cannabis.

A 24-year-old Berbice resident was taken into custody on Friday afternoon, after he was allegedly found in possession of just over four pounds of cannabis during a stop and search exercise.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corpora-tion (GPHC) is currently treating seven Chinese nationals, who were medevacked from Matthews Ridge, in Region One, with flu-like symptoms following the death of another worker who displayed similar indicators early yesterday morning.

Tejwattie Jinkoo, the mother of the Corentyne woman who was brutally murdered yesterday after being run over and then stabbed and chopped by her husband, had been assured by her daughter just prior to the attack that the man would not hurt her.

The Cruise Director of the visiting cruise ship MV Serenissima was attacked and robbed early yesterday morning on Lombard Street, Georgetown, as he was returning to the ship following an outing.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday initiated training for thousands of workers required for its new national house-to-house registration exercise, which could begin by mid-May.

With several Venezuelan immigrants now working in various jobs around the city, Citizenship Minister Winston Felix has warned that hiring them is illegal if they are not in possession of work permits.

Joyce Davis, the American woman who has been reported missing in Region Seven, had sailed the world for 16 years before settling down at Almanac Creek, Essequibo with her husband in 2006.

The Government of Guyana has retained a former Attorney General (AG) of Belize to assist in its handling of the no-confidence motion appeal cases currently before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

Nand Persaud and Company Limited has been awaiting approval to complete an airstrip at Number 36 Village, Corentyne, for three years, according to Chief Executive Officer Mohindra Persaud, who says the project could revolutionise rice farming in the region. 

President David Granger on Friday told a Regional Youth Caucus that government is interested in developing opportunities for young people to be involved in the process of governance.

A fire at Manchester, Corentyne, has left an elderly woman hospitalised and the home she shared with four others destroyed.

A simple thank you from the mother of a patient who took her own life was enough to drive young Dr Colleen Bovell to branch off into clinical psychiatry; the gratitude from that mother was because Bovell had treated her daughter humanely, when everyone else had written her off.

A Linden miner is now nursing gunshot wounds after he was shot while pursuing three bandits who robbed a Wismar, Linden family on Thursday evening.

The police in Berbice are searching for a 15-year-old boy of Angoy’s Avenue, in New Amsterdam, after his mother led police to the discovery of a rifle that was hidden in an empty lot near their home. 

Six juveniles escaped from the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) at Onder-neeming, Essequibo last week in the second break-out from the facility to occur within a two-week period.

One person is dead and at least six others are hospitalised following what appears to be an outbreak of a flu-like illness at the Chinese-owned Guyana Manganese Inc in Region One.

A Corentyne taxi driver this morning used a car to hit his wife down and then proceeded to stab and chop her to death.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday an-nounced that when the National Assembly reconvenes on April 11th all government Members of Parliament (MPs) will be present as Cabinet has not taken a decision on those members with dual citizenship.