Guyana News

A man was yesterday acquitted by majority verdicts on three counts of rape.

A Guyana Police Force (GPF) officer was brought before the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the Lindo Creek murders on Tuesday to present records from police stations located in the same district around the time of the murders.

City Hall has once again aggravated a residential community by appropriating its recreational space for commercial purposes – in this case Roxanne Burnham Gardens for a barbecue pit.

Former Deputy Mayor Lionel Jaikarran has resigned from the post as Chairman of the municipality’s Markets and Public Health Committee.

A South Ruimveldt man was yesterday granted bail after he denied assaulting a policeman.

Weeks after the Mayor and City Council stopped vendors from illegally trading along a section of Alexander Street, between Robb and Regent streets in Georgetown, Town Clerk Royston King yesterday declared that no vending would be permitted along that part of the road.

Stakeholders, including organisations and individuals in Georgetown, who may want to make submissions and recommendations for the revision of the 2006 Amerindian Act, will have the opportunity to do so on May 21st and May 22nd.

A labourer was yesterday ordered to do four weeks of community service after he admitted to stealing a car battery.

Workers from the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre and the Palms Rehabilitation Department yesterday hosted a Sports and Fun Day for stroke survivors and amputees.

Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson this evening issued a statement on the arrest of his brother in Grenada on a drug charge.

Acting on information received whilst on a mobile patrol in the Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) community last night, police ranks commanded by a Gazetted Officer went to the home of Sherwin Alexander, 38, a grocer of 382 Golden Grove, EBD and conducted a search in the presence of his 44-year-old wife, Patricia Renee; during the process they found a parcel containing 134 grams of cannabis concealed inside of a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe.

Malcom Brown, 30, unemployed of Belmont, Mahaica, ECD was today charged with murder committed on Fareez Yassem.

President David Granger announced yesterday that he plans to meet “very soon” with Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo on the appointment of several service commissions and the latter’s rejection of the nominees to the top two judicial posts.

Three armed bandits early yesterday morning broke into a La Parfaite Harmonie home, where they brutalized a businessman, before making off with a quantity of cash and other items.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has called for the swift naming of a Board for the Guyana Sugar Corporation even as he questioned how the $30B sourced for the corporation’s revitalization is being spent.

Controversial former Head of the SWAT Unit, Motie Dookie, who was posted to the Police ‘A’ Division one week ago following his return from annual leave amidst a probe into whisky smuggling, has been reassigned to Police Headquarters, Eve Leary.

Attorney General Basil Williams yesterday restated that the Government opted to settle some of their outstanding cases since they were “incurable” and denied suggestions that they might be benefitting from “kick-backs”.

The Police and officials from the Child Care and Protection Agency have launched an investigation into the death of a three-year-old yesterday morning under mysterious circumstances in Sophia.

The Head Teacher of a North West District Primary School is now nursing wounds to his head and neck after an irate sibling of a student of the school dealt him several lashes with a cutlass yesterday afternoon.

The National Toshaos Council (NTC) has written to the Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan expressing its great concern about the sedition clause in the Cybercrime Bill and requesting to have an input.