Guyana News

Renard Romain was yesterday morning sentenced to 10 years in jail for the unlawful killing of fellow miner Seibert Moore, whom he stabbed during an altercation on January 2,  2015.

Six year-old Arianna Hughes, who was among those hurt in an accident along the Kuru Kururu Public Road, Soesdyke-Linden Highway on Sunday afternoon, succumbed to her injuries early yesterday morning.

Head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), Matthew Langevine yesterday said that since taking office a year ago, 25 intelligence reports have been submitted to the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU), the entity’s investigative arm.

The families of the men who remain missing from the horrific April 27 attack in Surinamese waters remain in a state of grief and they want updated information from the authorities.

One of the two suspects arrested in connection with the death of Sean Waldron, the Haslington, East Coast Demerara (ECD) labourer who was found floating in the Mahaicony Creek last week, is expected to be charged with murder today.

The metered parking by-laws will be forwarded by the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) to Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan for his approval on May 18 but the contract which they empower will not come into effect for another 90 days.

Three persons were yesterday arraigned on assault charges following a scrap along the Kingston Seawall, where a husband said he saw his wife out with another man.

Two men who allegedly received a stolen car were yesterday released on bail by a city court after denying the charge.

Eleven staffers at the Mackenzie Office of the Guyana Elections Commis-sion (GECOM), will now function in a comfortable environment, following the inauguration of a new $20M two-flat building on May 10 in Region 10.

Commonwealth Parlia mentary Association (CPA) Secretary-General (SG) Akbar Khan last Friday stressed the need for co-operation between the governing APNU+AFC and opposition PPP/C in the National Assembly.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) says that its recently implemented Rangers Programme has issued 3,050 warnings to residents on the East Bank of Demerara (EBD) on various issues.

President David Granger has charged Guyanese to become more resourceful and to make the necessary provisions for their future generations as their fore parents had done for them.

A labourer was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with snatching a man’s chain.

The Ministry of Public Security today said it is aware of the recent Facebook Post made by an inmate, of himself and others consuming alcohol yesterday at the New Amsterdam Prisons.

GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli troops shot dead dozens of Palestinian protesters on the Gaza border today when the high-profile opening of the U.S.

The Police today said that they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the murder of 34-year-old vendor, Farcey Yassen, of 25 Belmont, Mahaica, ECD.

Another Berbice boat owner remains under arrest here for alleged links to the recent deadly pirate attacks off neighbouring Suriname even as law enforcement from that country is probing the shooting death of one of its cops for a possible link.

Former Head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), Winston Brassington has defended the decision to bring Russian bauxite company Rusal to Guyana saying it was done to save the local industry and Rusal was the only company to show investment interest at the time.

 (Barbados Nation) John and Larissa Jackson have never been able to pick up the pieces of their lives after the gruesome death of their 16-year-old daughter Anna Druzhinina ten years ago.

The evaluation of bids for the new Demerara River crossing is expected to be completed by the end of this month and the process will be moved into the next phase, Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson says.