Guyana News

Five armed bandits escaped with a quantity of gold jewellery and an undisclosed amount of cash following a daring robbery around midday yesterday at a De Willem, West Coast Demerara goldsmith’s workshop and home.

Orpheus Johnson, the accused in the murder of Nandy Park miner Travis Rudder, flew into a fit of anger and cursed at the magistrate yesterday after he was committed to stand trial for the crime.

Guyanese students entering the Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS) in September 2017 will be asked to pay an increase in tuition of more than TT$4,000.

Charged in 2015 with fatally beating his elderly, bedridden father with a piece of wood, Ali Mohamed was yesterday sent to the National Psychiatric Hospital at Berbice until he is deemed fit to stand trial.

Kenkassie Lynch, the suspect in the murder of mechanic Terrence Lanferman, who was gunned down at his Mocha home two years ago, was yesterday committed to stand trial for the crime.

Ganga Krishna and Avishkar Bissoon, the welders charged with killing a man and his two young daughters after setting their Robb and King streets home on fire, were yesterday committed to stand trial for the crime.

PPP/C MP Anil Nandlall has written to Attorney-General (AG) Basil Williams SC urging that he appoint a Governing Board for the Deeds and Commercial registries, while saying that its absence they are encountering “innumerable administrative problems” that are affecting their functioning.

The PPP/C’s move to have the government reveal the causes of frequent blackouts in the country and measures it would take to end them was defeated late Monday night even as both sides played the blame game as to who was responsible for state of the Guyana Power & Light, while the opposition maintained that the controversial Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) remained the only hope for the country to access clean, reliable electricity.

Residents of Mon Repos and the surrounding East Coast Demerara communities are pleading with the relevant authorities to fix the deplorable and “almost impassable” Agriculture Road.

Minister of Finance Winston Jordan yesterday clarified that while he had provided to parliament the yearly increases in salaries for public servants, ministers and the presidents during the period 1998 and 2014, he did not total up these increases.

Verdicts are likely tomorrow, for the trio accused of the massacre of the 12 men, including three police officers, at Bartica, on the night of February 17, 2008.

The trial into the murder of Glenn Xavier, who was shot and killed after being robbed at the Corn Bread Mini Mart, commenced yesterday before Justice Navindra Singh at the High Court in Georgetown.

To mark its 26th Anniversary, employees of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) pooled their resources and donated more than $1 million in care items to residents of the Palms on Friday last.

The Police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Police Corporal 16825 Belgrave Bartholomew, 39 years of Itaballi, Mazaruni and who was stationed at Ekereku Police Outpost.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport will not charge the 14 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) on airport security fees nor will it increase the current car park fees by 14%, effective Wednesday February 1, 2017.

KINGSTON,  (Reuters) – West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell was banned on Tuesday for one year for a doping whereabouts rule violation.

Miners have written President David Granger imploring him to rethink new tax measures which they say will squeeze the life out of the industry and they are seeking an urgent meeting with him.

The government used its one-seat majority in the National Assembly last evening to defeat a PPP/C motion calling for the restoration of items that were previously zero-rated under the Value Added Tax (VAT), with Finance Minister Winston Jordan once again arguing that the changes were necessary to stem the continuing decline of revenue yielded by the tax.

With the start of the enforcement of penalties for parking violations, numerous parking spaces in Central Georgetown remained vacant yesterday.

Superbet employees were yesterday robbed of approximately one million dollars by six gunmen after collecting the cash from an agent at Pigeon Island, East Coast Demerara.