Guyana News

Colwyn Harding was on Wednesday granted his release on $50,000 bail after denying that he robbed a woman of over $200,000 in items.

A doctor escaped with just minor burns on his hand after his quarters at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre went up in flames yesterday afternoon.

Police are in pursuit of a suspect in the death of the Herstelling, East Bank Demerara (EBD) joiner, who succumbed to injuries sustained from an attack on Sunday afternoon.

US$17.5m in financing from India for the Suddie, West Demerara and Bartica regional hospitals is closer.

The Guyana Police Force says that under “Operation Assurance 11” ranks of the Police Force will be involved in several exercises between 0800h.

The nurse, whose complaint against an influential APNU+AFC councillor in Region Five was reported in yesterday’s edition of Stabroek News, has been transferred with immediate effect and she firmly believes that she is being targeted over the matter.

A 52-year-old Kildonan man was yesterday charged with the murder of his 82-year-old father, after he allegedly set his father’s house on fire on April 10.

GTT yesterday stated that it has more than enough capacity to handle all of Guyana’s overseas traffic and it called for Digicel’s bypass operation to be audited by an “independent and trusted organization”.

As the Mayor and City Council’s (M&CC) rates recovery drive continues, City Treasurer, Ron McAlman says the council has been able to recover some $14.6 million out of an outstanding balance of $382 million for the Kingston, North Cummingsburg, South Cummingsburg and Lacytown areas.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed yesterday between the Minister of Public Telecommunications, Catherine Hughes and the Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Professor Ivelaw Griffith, for the upgrade of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) platforms on all University of Guyana (UG) Campuses.

A 40-year-old man died after he lost control of his motorcycle and crashed into a vehicle which was parked on the McDoom Public Road, East Bank Demerara (EBD) yesterday morning.

A motorcyclist died early yesterday morning after he collided with the front fender of a parked motor lorry along the Reliance Public Road, Essequibo Coast and his family are blaming the police delay in rendering assistance for his death.

A drug mule was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail and fined $4,060,800 for trafficking three pounds of cocaine, while her alleged supplier was remanded for possession of almost five pounds of the same drug.

Charged in 2016 with causing the death of Kuru Kuru resident, Carl Dundas, the accused, Nathan Heyliger, had the charge against him dismissed yesterday by a city magistrate.

Mohammed Ali who was charged with possession of 113 pounds of cocaine had the charge against him dismissed on Tuesday.

There has been no activity on the forest concessions previously held by Chinese forester Bai Shan Lin, which government is holding on to at the request of the China Development Bank, according to Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman.

Minister within the Ministry of Natural Resources Simona Broomes told a Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Natural Resources yesterday that the development of mining syndicates will directly influence the growth of the economy.

A poor turnout by the Guyana Private Schools United yesterday did not deter the protest action against VAT on private education, outside of the Ministry of the Presidency.

The second and final retrial of Lakeraj Fredericks who is accused of the 2011 murder of Clifton Bonus, is set to commence next Monday before Justice Navindra Singh at the High Court in Georgetown.

The PPP yesterday said it will test AFC MPs in parliament at the next sitting over the latter’s call for a review of the controversial VAT on private education tuition.