Guyana News

Four days after he was rearrested, Regan Rodrigues, the man accused of murdering political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing, was yesterday brought to the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, where police were unable to get him to go into a courtroom.

Falling on “hard times” was Eon Sampson’s excuse for why police found him with two pounds of cannabis, which yesterday resulted in him being sentenced to three years in jail and fined $3.1 million.

Forrester Gravesande, the Jonestown, Mahaica man accused of fatally beating his neighbour, was charged with his murder and remanded to prison last Thursday.

A Yarakita, North West District, Region 1 resident who pointed a loaded firearm at a Police Constable, was shot and killed by the said rank with his service revolver at about 7.45 this morning at Yarakita Village, the police say.

A 16-year-old pillion rider of Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice, died around 5.30 this morning, whilst receiving treatment at the New Amsterdam Hospital, after the motor cycle he was being towed on collided with a utility pole at about 00:45hrs at Cotton Tree Public Road, West Coast Berbice.

A Central Rupununi resident was just after 2:30 am today pronounced dead on arrival at the Lethem Hospital after being rushed to the medical institution by his reputed wife, bleeding profusely from a single knife-stab wound to the left region of his chest.

(Trinidad Guardian) Soca artiste Rodney “Benjai” La Blanc is recovering at home following a brutal attack outside a night club in Guyana on Sunday morning.

Instead of direct cash disbursements to every citizen from the country’s oil wealth, the government will likely favour disbursing money directly to the regions, which would be more advantageous, according to Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman.

Guyana is no longer the suicide capital of the world, having fallen to fourth place, according to crude statistics on the World Health Organization (WHO) website.

The unidentified body of a woman was found yesterday morning in a room at the John’s Hotel on George Street, Werk-en-Rust.

With heart disease continuing to be the leading cause of death among Guyanese, the recently-established Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) is meeting the needs of patients by offering specialized treatment and care.

Although already overpaid for by $1.1 million, rehabilitation works for the fencing at the Christianburg Wismar Secondary School will have to be re-budgeted for in 2018 to see its completion, and the accounting officer of Region Ten believes “unethical staff” are to blame.

Alliance For Change (AFC) Leader Raphael Trotman says he is concerned that the criticisms that the party has fallen silent on the constitutional reform calls it championed while in opposition, have been vague on what direct fixes were needed.

Residents of Constituency 10, Albouystown/ Charlestown say they have seen changes in their communities, since the election of Team Legacy’s Malcolm Ferreira as a councillor at the March 18, 2016 Local Government Elections.

In keeping with having an open government and having the citizens of the country informed about   his ministry’s progress, Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman said that by the end of 2017 the ministry would have completed 60 outreaches in various communities in every region.

Two weeks after his disappearance, family members of a missing Mabaruma pensioner are still in the dark about his whereabouts.

Four persons were lucky to have not sustained any serious injuries after the car three of them were in slammed into a minibus on D’Urban Street yesterday afternoon, pitching it into a nearby drain.

The Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (Pancap) will host a meeting of youth leaders this weekend in Port of Spain, Trinidad to discuss the role of youth in the response to HIV and AIDS, and draft a framework for regional youth advocacy.

Global REACH Guyana (GRG), an organization that assists other non-governmental organizations with providing financial aid and support to vulnerable groups, the sick, and the abused, recently made a donation of a projector and projector screen to the Rotaract Club of Georgetown Central.

Having distributed more than 2,000 kites over the past two weeks, President David Granger yesterday indulged a bit in the Easter tradition during a walkabout in the National Park.