Guyana News

A security guard attached to Hand-in-Hand Trust Corpora-tion, Middle Street, Georgetown branch was yesterday afternoon shot during a foiled robbery attempt on the financial institution and the police during a roadblock shortly after, managed to detain a man suspected to be the driver of the getaway car.

A father of three was shot in his abdomen yesterday morning in an apparent robbery in  D’Urban Backlands  just after 6 am.

As investigations continue into the shooting to death of West Ruimveldt resident, Paul Rodney which occurred earlier this week, a man who is nursing a gunshot injury to his leg along with a female staffer from a city pharmacy were yesterday arrested for questioning.

The Guyana Analyst Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) has launched an investigation into the improper labeling and use of the chemical Antinfek to treat water at a local bottling company.

Steve Allicock one of the men accused of the murder of Albouystown resident Wendell Tappin, was yesterday committed to stand trial for the crime.

A boat operator was yesterday brought before a city court where he was charged with the murder of Venezuelan Henry Mendonca.

The Mayor and City and Council (M&CC) has paid approximately $20 million, a fraction of what it owes, to the city’s two garbage disposal contractors after they threatened to suspend their collection services.

Police are said to be investigating an incident at the Camp Street Prison which resulted in an inmate being admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) nursing chops to his upper body.

The wife of the Number 70 Village, Corentyne carpenter, whose lifeless body was discovered on the public road on November 1, is now scared for her life after receiving death threats to stop the investigation into her husband’s murder.

With Deputy Regional Executive Officer of Region 3 Ameena Marlyne Hinds behind bars in the US for allegedly attempting to smuggle 3 lbs of cocaine into that country, a vacancy for her position has now been created and the Ministry Communities is expected to make that appointment as the long awaited Local Government Commission (LGC) is yet to be established.

The fourth South Rupununi Safari is scheduled to start today and continues up to the 29th.

Following a meeting with incoming Secretary General (SG) of the United Nations, António Guterres, Guyana was told that he was satisfied with the process the incumbent Ban Ki-moon is undertaking pertaining to the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy.

A city magistrate on Tuesday set dates for the commencement of trials in relation to Anjanie Boodnarine, the reputed wife of convicted drug  trafficker Barry Dataram, who is facing charges of forgery, fleeing the jurisdiction and leaving the country illegally.

The Parliamentary opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) views the implementation of parking meters in the city as an indirect tax and as an added burden to the consumers.

Junior Communities Minister Valerie Patterson on Tuesday defended government’s move to replace turn-key homes with condominiums and duplexes, saying that not only has multi-unit housing been tried and tested during the former PNC government but that it caters for the development of urban communities in a modern Guyana.

Nineteen students of the Sophia Training Centre on Tuesday graduated from catering and entrepreneurship programmes, the initiative being part of Cuso International’s move to reintroduce the 4-H club to Guyana.

More than 60 young people will benefit from training at the newly launched Bertram Collins College of the Public Service as part of efforts to improve the public service, GINA said.

MV Logos Hope, the world’s largest floating book fair, is scheduled to dock at the La Penitence wharf next month.

St. Stanislaus College last Friday held its annual graduation and prize giving ceremony, where its recent Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) graduates were awarded.

The trial of Mark Thompson, who is accused of murdering Brazilian miner Jose Rodriguez De Oliveira is underway before Justice James Bovell-Drakes, and a 12-member jury at the High Court in Georgetown.