Guyana News

Government is relying on dialogue with the opposition, unions and civil society to definitively decide the way forward for the ailing sugar industry, President David Granger said last Thursday while stressing the desire to have unanimity on the choice made.

The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised that the member of the Guyana Fire Service who allegedly struck down and killed boat builder, Clement Skeete more than three months ago be charged.

Jason Howard, one of the men charged with the murder by fire of Good Hope rice farmers Mohamed and Jamilla Munir, was allowed to plead to several robbery charges in a city court on Thursday.

More than one week after Vickram James, who was discovered with his throat slit at Pigeon Island, Corentyne River, succumbed to his injuries, the police are yet to pick up a lead that could result in the arrest of a suspect.

The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is currently in the process of reviewing the file on the shooting of Jean Rodrigues, the woman wounded by a policeman in the vicinity of the Stabroek Market in September last year.

There is no Soca Monarch competition on the roster of events for Mashramani this year, however, a national music festival is slated to be held in later on, which will include this genre.

A Brazilian national was on Thursday remanded to prison after he pleaded not guilty to trafficking three grammes of cocaine.

Firearm and ammunition possession charges were on Thursday read to a mason, who was remanded to prison.

A welder was remanded to prison on Thursday after being charged with being in possession of almost one pound of cannabis.

The Ministry of Finance has pointed out that yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek page 1 headline `Jordan blames `contrived’ reporting for foreign currency panic’ was incorrect as the Minister had used the word `contrived’ to describe the reported shortage of currency and not the reportage on the matter.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Chairman of selectors, Courtney Browne, is hoping the incident between Test batsman Darren Bravo and the West Indies Cricket Board can be solved quickly, so the player can return to action.

The PNCR today denied a report in the Guyana Times  that senior public servants had been requested to attend its General Council meeting on Saturday.

Minister of Finance Winston Jordan has blamed recent reporting of what he labelled a “contrived” shortage of foreign currency for creating “a climate of speculation and hysteria.”

Travelling along the Corentyne highway, you could miss Wellington Park, which is considered the smallest village on the Corentyne or maybe even in the entire Berbice, with its 12 houses and population of less than 50 persons.

Alfred De Younge, the man who is accused of burning the mother of his two children in a suspected acid attack last Thursday, was arrested yesterday after he was involved in a vehicular accident in Linden.

A 28-year-old minibus conductor is now in police custody assisting with investigations in last evening’s stabbing to death of a Leopold Street resident near the Stabroek Market.

The copies of the medical certificates and birth certificates of the nine boys allegedly raped by Muslim scholar Nezaam Ali have mysteriously disappeared from the case files and the distraught mother of three of them, is now convinced that efforts are afoot to sabotage the case to ensure that the alleged perpetrator is spared jail time.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) yesterday said that its constitution does not prohibit the party’s leader and other senior office holders from serving more than two successive terms in the same post.

Minister of Natural Resources and Alliance for Change (AFC) executive Raphael Trotman says that he too would be accepting nominations to be party leader and would consider it an honour to serve in the capacity once more.

Attorney Ronald Burch-Smith has clarified that his comments in the report, ‘Jagdeo open to submitting new Gecom list,’ which was published in the January 21st edition of the Stabroek News, were made by him in his personal capacity and not as a representative of the Guyana Bar Association.