Guyana News

The proprietors of True Value Pharmacy at Charity, Essequibo Coast are counting their losses after their business place was broken into on Wednesday night.

Tahseen Sayed Khan is the new Country Director for Caribbean countries, the World Bank announced yesterday.

As part of Vice-Chancellor (VC) Ivelaw Griffith’s efforts to stimulate and support research and scholarship at   the University of Guyana (UG), the VC’S Research Fund was recently established with $1 million from private fundraising and the UG Press is to be established as an imprint of Ian Randle Publishers (IRP).

A crowd larger than last Friday’s turned up outside City Hall today to protest against metered parking.

The Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) is making progress with its investigation into the allocation of lands at `Pradoville 2’ to cabinet members of the former administration and their close associates, financial investigations expert Dr Sam Sittlington said yesterday.

Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region 9, Carl Parker is to appear in a Georgetown court today following a sexual assault allegation levelled against him.

Talks have begun between the city and SCS for “far less onerous” parking meter rates, according to the Ministry of the Presidency but that concession yesterday may be too late to stave off legal action amid mounting anger over the project and another protest is set for today outside City Hall at midday.

A father of four died yesterday after he was shot three times at Adventure, Corentyne, by a bandit who robbed him of an undisclosed sum of money and phone cards.

Two men clad in black barged into a house at Tain Settlement, Corentyne on Tuesday night and shot a mother of four dead after demanding cash.

Circulars from the Bank of Guyana (BOG) on February 2 to currency traders have fixed the spread between the buying and selling rates to no more than $3 and setting other stipulations which observers say constitute the biggest rollback in the free trade of foreign exchange for decades.

Corruption and money laundering are cancers plaguing Guyana, British High Commissioner Greg Quinn said yesterday, stating that his government remains committed to helping this country in its fight to eradicate them.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday issued a bulletin for two men wanted in relation to a fatal fire two weeks ago at Kaneville Housing Scheme fire which claimed the life of eight-month-old, Romain Seth.

The Guyana National Industrial Company Inc (GNIC), has paid government holding company, NICIL $148M of the $148.8M which it owed for unpaid debts.

A team of experts from the United Nations is here to consider how the constitutional reform process “could be realised”, according to a press release yesterday from the Office of the Prime Minister.

A distributor attached to the National Milling Company of Guyana was yesterday afternoon relieved of his licenced firearm and $4m in cash by three gun-toting bandits on Station Street, Kitty.

The man who allegedly murdered Debra Blackman, the waitress who was shot dead at the Chinese Delicious Restaurant on D’Urban Street three years ago, was yesterday brought before a city magistrate and charged with the crime, along with the attempted murder of former magistrate Fazil Azeez.

Attorney General Basil Williams SC and an opposition team met yesterday to discuss the criteria for nominations to fill the vacancy of Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) but no progress was made.

A man who chopped another with a cutlass, was yesterday sentenced to seven years in jail when he appeared before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow at the High Court in Georgetown, where he admitted to committing the act.

Bids were opened on Tuesday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the upgrading of roads at Perseverance, East Bank Demerara and No.76 Village Corentyne, Berbice for the Central Housing and Planning Authority.

Around 1000 residents of Lima Sands on the Essequibo Coast are expected to receive potable water, for the first time, as the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is in the process of installing an entire system comprising a well, transmission distribution and service connections to the community.