Guyana News

Patricia Chase-Green has been returned to the position of Mayor of Georgetown after Sherod Duncan withdrew just before the Mayor & City Council was set to vote yesterday for a new mayor.

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo yesterday said that while he is willing to engage with social partners such as the Private Sector Commission (PSC) and the trade unions he does not find their request to have an engagement on the budget while it is being debated in the legislature appropriate.

Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo  yesterday continued his scathing attack on the 2017 budget and said Wednesday’s revelations in parliament about the controversial D’Urban park project were scandalous and the facility could end up with a $1.2b price tag.

The police have been granted an additional 72 hours to further detain three suspects who were held in connection with Monday’s multi-million dollar robbery at the home of a Berbice cambio dealer, in which AK-47s were among the weapons used by a gang of 14.

Superintendent of Police Linden Lord yesterday recounted conducting identification parades at which Dennis Williams and Mark Royden Williams were identified as two of the persons involved in the massacre of 12 men at Bartica in 2008.

Curtis Vasconcellos and Jason Howard have been positively identified as the gunmen who attacked and robbed Tower Suites employees on Wednesday, Commander of ‘A’ Division Clifton Hicken related last evening.

A US$8 million project approved by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will help Guyana ease prison overcrowding by reducing pre-trial detentions and increasing the use of alternative sentencing, among other measures.

Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday accused the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) of victimisation after five of his party’s Members of Parliament were served with letters regarding property tax.

A drug bond is to be built at Paradise, East Coast Demerara with monies allocated in the 2017 budget for Region Four, Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan said last evening even as he shrugged off remarks from the parliamentary opposition that this is nothing more than an attempted solution to the raging Sussex Street bond controversy.

Two government ministers are among 38 persons currently benefiting from government scholarships.

A fireman from Linden was brutally chopped about his body on Wednesday night by a group of men who showed up at his home.

The City of Georgetown now has regulations which govern the specifics of parking within its boundaries, inclusive of metered parking.

A Japanese grant will see the construction of a skills development centre in Waramadong Village in the Upper Mazaruni, Region Seven and over 650 young people in the district are expected to benefit.

A Japanese grant will see the construction of a skills development centre in Waramadong Village in the Upper Mazaruni, Region Seven and over 650 young people in the district are expected to benefit.

Drug convict Dwayne King, who was wounded in the Camp Street Prison, testified in court yesterday that the accused Calvin Bailey had wanted to kill him “long”.

A businessman was on Wednesday granted bail by a city magistrate after he was read an unlawful wounding charge.

Submissions were on Wednesday presented to the court by defence attorneys for the three men accused of the Kaieteur News (KN) grenade attack.

A travel agent was yesterday granted bail after she was charged with intent to defraud a Nigerian of over $600,000 that was to be used to purchase a return plane ticket.

A West Ruimveldt man was remanded to prison by a city magistrate after he was charged with stealing a cellular phone and cash.

A 22-year-old man was granted bail on Wednesday by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan after he was charged with being in possession of 10 grammes of ganja.