Guyana News

President David Granger yesterday said that the “fragile fabric” of the country’s social cohesion could potentially be damaged by what he dubbed “reckless” and “provocative” calls.

  From April 1, 2017, former PNC Prime Minister Hamilton Green is expected to start receiving almost $1.5 million a month in pension payments and other benefits after the government used its parliamentary majority last evening to pass a controversial bill to confer him with the package.

Cane-cutters and cane transporters of the Wales estate and their families and workers from the Enmore estate yesterday staged picketing exercises in front of the Ministry of the Presidency and Parliament building over severance payments and the end of sugar operations at the West Bank Demerara estate.

A Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) pedal cyclist succumbed yesterday afternoon at the Georgetown Public Hospital while receiving medical attention after being involved in an accident at around 3.15 pm.

Nucklus Singh, 21,  is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to causing the death by dangerous driving of Chandanie Dass on 2014-08-02 on the Annandale Public Road, Essequibo Coast.

Although the Mayor and City Council continues to stand firmly behind its contract with Smart City Solutions to implement metered parking in Georgetown, supporters of the Movement Against Parking Meters maintained their lobby for the project to be scrapped at their sixth protest in as many weeks yesterday.

Clayton Alleyne, said to be the head of a loan company, was yesterday charged with attempting to defraud Fantasy Auto Sales of $26.3 million in vehicles.

Two men were hauled before a city magistrate yesterday to answer separate charges of possession of cannabis for trafficking.

Four men, including a father and his son, were yesterday faced with a charge that they had over 10 pounds of ganja for trafficking.

A restaurateur was arrested by lawmen following the discovery of two high-powered weapons at his Met-en-Meerzorg, West Demerara residence yesterday afternoon.

The debate on former Prime Minister’s Hamilton Green’s Pension Bill was for a brief moment sidetracked yesterday when former Attorney General Anil Nandlall declared to the House that Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan was intoxicated and Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo called for a breathalyzer test to be administered.

Just two weeks before his scheduled release, a Lusignan Prison inmate had his right hand severed in an industrial accident while working outside of the prison.

Stating that he is seeing signs that both the Rose Hall and Skeldon sugar estates are heading for closure, Region Six Chairman David Armogan on Wednesday made an impassioned plea to the government to keep them open otherwise he said it would be a serious blow to Berbice.

Jamil Young Junior, also known as ‘Jamil Charles,’ who was charged last year with the murder of Agricola resident Randy Persaud, was freed yesterday due to insufficient evidence against him.

A jury yesterday heard   that murder accused Christopher Da Silva confessed to stabbing 17-year-old Reyad Khan, who was at the time accosting him while armed with a gun.

According to the newly-promoted Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI), Geoffrey Vaughn the ongoing replacement of the Liliendaal Bridge will not affect the soon-to-start work on the sinkhole at the Kitty seawall.

  Residents of Black Bush Polder have voiced their concerns in regards to a plot of land located in Yakusari, Black Bush Polder, which has been used for many years as a play field, but was recently leased to villagers of the said area.

Youths of the Sophia Juvenile Detention Centre will now have the opportunity to participate in karate training, courtesy of the Guyana Karate College (GKC), thanks to the intervention of non-governmental organisation, Enhanced Potential to Inspire Change (EPIC)-Guyana.

A file in relation to last week’s cell phone theft at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, involving a female special constabulary rank has been sent to the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for recommendations.

An excavator operator was yesterday remanded to prison after he was accused of unlawful possession of a firearm and matching rounds of ammunition.