Guyana News

A prisoner held at the Camp Street jail escaped from the facility this morning but was held shortly after following a chase by a policeman.

In response to an invitation by Mayor Patricia Chase-Green to meet and discuss their concerns about the metered parking system, the Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM) has decided to organise a town hall meeting, where the city administration can consult with those persons affected by the project.

  What a name to give to a village, which according to some people is situated ‘behind God’s back’; a village that has no access to public transportation because it is almost four miles off the public road; a village with holes in its roads too big to call potholes and where nothing seems easy.

With the suspension of booting and other penalty aspects of metered parking in Georgetown, cars have returned to the streets.

Justice Brassington Reynolds last Friday ordered that Deputy Registrar of the Deeds Registry Zanna Frank be allowed to perform her duties and be paid wages owed since she started the job.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) says it is disturbed by what it sees as government’s ambivalence to constitutional reform, calling it discouraging.

Alex Griffith, the teenager who was shot in his mouth allegedly by a police officer during 2014, was yesterday afternoon shot again reportedly by another policeman who was allegedly chasing after him for not wearing a motorcycle helmet.

  A 20-year-old man died early yesterday morning after he allegedly lost control of a car he was driving and struck a utility pole before colliding with a fence along the Liliendaal Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

A Jamaican national is one of two suspects now in police custody for the murder of Leilawatie Mohamed, also known as ‘Aunty Leila,’ the mother of four who was shot dead in her Tain Settlement, Corentyne home last week.

– gov’t intervention underway, but stakeholders say should be more strategic A recent report by the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has painted a horrifying picture of the Region One community Baramita, where the incidence of sexual and physical violence is so high among women and children that young girls are forced to walk with broken bottles in their bosoms as a form of protection.

The Ministry of Education is seeking legal advice from the Attorney-General (AG) on the controversial $545.2 million juice contract for its school feeding programme, after a part of the procurement process was annulled due to an error in the evaluation of bids, Chairperson of the Public Procurement Commission Carol Corbin said yesterday.

The disappearance of key documents in the rape case against Muslim scholar Nezaam Ali is currently being looked at by the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), but it is unclear at this point if any effort is being made to replace the documents or ascertain who took them.

The 28-year-old mother and two of her three minor children who were taken to the Georgetown Public Hopsital (GPH) on Friday afternoon displaying symptoms of poisoning are said to be out of danger.

A game of cricket ended tragically yesterday afternoon for a group of boys after one of them, a 13-year-old drowned in the rough waters off the Kingston Seawall.

Mathematics was well-ventilated yesterday as Guyana’s children took to the streets of Georgetown for the annual Children’s Costume and Float Parade.

The youth arm of the PNCR, the GYSM, is calling for a separate ministry for youth.

(Reuters) – U.S. federal immigration agents arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in at least four states this week in what officials on Friday called routine enforcement actions.

Booting and other penalty aspects of metered parking in Georgetown have been suspended as a new rate structure is being developed, government announced yesterday, while the Mayor issued an invite to the group that organised protests against the meters for talks.

  More than a dozen people lost their homes after a fire, suspected to have been deliberately set, ripped through three buildings, including a beer garden, located at Sandy Babb and Railway streets, Kitty, Georgetown early yesterday morning.

A man was charged yesterday with the murder of Romain Seth, the eight-month-old baby who died during the Kaneville Housing Scheme fire last month.