Guyana News

Two young men were yesterday denied bail after they were charged with stealing over $1 million in cash and electronics in an armed robbery.

Director of the Food and Drug Department, Marlan Cole has been ordered to show cause why his prohibition of Ancient County Full Cream Evaporated Milk shouldn’t be quashed.

A group of Queen’s College old students have taken the initiative to rehabilitate the school’s recreational field and have committed to attend to its maintenance for at least the next six months.

A mason of Covent Garden, East Bank Demerara, (EBD), died at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was stabbed on Monday night, and police have arrested a relative of the dead man following reports which suggest that she is the alleged perpetrator.

A security guard of Tabatinga, Lethem, Region Nine, was stabbed to death during an attempted robbery while he was making his way home during the wee hours of yesterday and the police are currently on the hunt for his assailant.

A man, who allegedly threatened to shoot at a police constable, was yesterday morning shot dead by the rank.

Legal action looms against the club patron who allegedly attacked visiting Trinidadian soca singer Rodney “Benjai” Le Blanc on Sunday morning in front of the Palm Court nightclub on Main Street leaving him with a wound that required 25 stitches.

A complaint was made last year to the Ministry of Health by a Berbice nurse against Region 5 councilor Carol Joseph that she was using her office to obtain unusual amounts of a prescription painkiller from the Fort Wellington Hospital.

Bids were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the construction of a Law Enforcement Building Annex at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri under the Ministry of Public Infrastructure.

Although government says it is committed to the protection of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) community, it has informed the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that “much more” has to be done on an approach towards prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as repealing laws that criminalize homosexuality.

A taxi driver, allegedly caught with 32 amphetamine tablets at the Pegasus Hotel, was remanded to prison yesterday after a court heard that he attempted to sell the substance to a policeman.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that he is still awaiting feedback from some potential nominees that he has shortlisted for the post of Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom), while one has already declined.

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.