Guyana News

Teachers and parents of students attending the South Road Nursery are trying to save the school from being phased out.

Former Ministry of the Presidency Permanent Secretary Omar Shariff and his common-law wife were yesterday each read a charge alleging that they failed to comply with a court order.

The Cuban owner of club in Providence was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with trafficking a woman.

The Court of Appeal last week dismissed the race baiting appeal case involving PPP/C Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, whose lawyer yesterday accused the Guyana Chronicle of being misleading in its reportage on the outcome of the matter.

Michael Caesar, who pleaded guilty to the 2008 Bartica mass killing, yesterday told Justice Roxane George SC and a jury, that the three men currently being tried for the crime were not there when 12 men, including three police officers, were killed.

Former veteran policeman Leon Lindo was yesterday committed to stand trial for conspiring to murder businessman Mohamed Khan, whose decapitated corpse was found at Cummings Lodge in 2015.

Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan yesterday protested the installation of parking meters in front of the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre and the Bishops’ High School.

A Berbice man was yesterday remanded to prison on two counts of rape.

Hauled before a city court on a drug trafficking charge, a woman yesterday told a magistrate that she was framed by police.

A man from Number 19 Village, Corentyne, Berbice was yesterday placed on $200,000 bail on an attempted murder charge when he appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados Pride have dismissed any idea of home pressure when they take on perennial rivals Guyana Jaguars in one of two games on the opening day of the 2017 Regional Super50 here Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump formally withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on Monday, distancing America from its Asian allies, as China’s influence in the region rises.

CARACAS/SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Offering prized bags of flour to police and hurling empty medicine boxes on the floor, Venezuelan opposition protesters launched a new push today to force President Nicolas Maduro from power and end 18 years of socialist rule.

The Police say they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred about 2230h.

A refrigeration technician is now dead and another man was injured after the ice plant they were working in exploded yesterday morning at the Houston Wharf.

Paid parking, which was to be implemented today, appears to be on hold at least for several days after the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) made a late submission of by-laws to Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan for approval.

Former Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran has accused the APNU+AFC government of intimidatory behaviour towards the judiciary and acting Chancellor of the Judiciary Carl Singh.

Three men were last evening taken into custody by police following a raid on a Campbellville, Georgetown residence which unearthed an AK-47 assault rifle with matching ammunition and a 9mm handgun.

A number of persons were over the weekend arrested following Trafficking in Persons (TIP) operations in Georgetown, the East Bank of Demerara and the West Demerara, sources close to the operations told Stabroek News.

Government is relying on dialogue with the opposition, unions and civil society to definitively decide the way forward for the ailing sugar industry, President David Granger said last Thursday while stressing the desire to have unanimity on the choice made.