Guyana News

Retired Assistant Superintendent of Police Lewis Goulding may have been saved from being a victim of the Bartica massacre by a woman who stopped him on the street as he was heading there on the night of the incident that left 12 persons dead.

  An application was yesterday made by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to forfeit the sum of $9 million from convicted drug lord Barry Dataram and his co-accused.

Seven persons were held for questioning on Tuesday by detectives of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) from Georgetown, who are working to determine how Faiyaz Narinedatt of Number 70 Village, Corentyne was killed.

Ministers of Social Protection, Volda Lawrence and Keith Scott are of the view that the Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI)/RUSAL has disrespected the Government of Guyana through its failure to attend a meeting to address pressing labour issues.

Colwyn Harding and an accomplice were yesterday remanded to prison when they appeared before a city magistrate on a robbery charge.

A fraud charge against a police officer was on Tuesday dismissed after the court ruled that insufficient evidence was led by the prosecution.

A 46-year old man is now homeless after a fire suspected to be of electrical origin destroyed his two-storey home at Number 69 Village, Corentyne, Berbice on Tuesday night.

Stallholders at the Lethem Public Market are counting their losses after the building which houses the market was broken into on Tuesday evening.

A West Coast Demerara resident was yesterday afternoon arrested at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri after it was discovered that he had swallowed several packets of cocaine.

Two hooded bandits on Tuesday evening broke into a Woolford Avenue building which houses two educational institutions and carted off  an undisclosed amount of cash and valuables.

A joint murder charge which was expected to be read to former Demico cook Alexis Turpin and her lover Stephon Barlow, who are accused of the fatal beating of the woman’s partner in July, was postponed as the prosecution is awaiting further advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

The Amerindian Peoples Association (APA), with support from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), has embarked on a project to promote the participation of indigenous communities in improving forest governance.

After not being able to repay a loan to the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI), construction company Dipcon Engineering Services Limited  (DESL) has entered into receivership and its assets will be liquidated.

The best friend of murdered businessman Oriley Small took to the witness stand yesterday to deliver testimony in the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the charge against his accused killer Morris Prince.

The prime suspect who is wanted in connection with the murder of Michael  Payne on November 11 last, in Albouystown, was arrested about 8.30 last night, in Meadow Brook Gardens, Georgetown.

A suspected bandit was killed during a shootout with police at Vryheid Village, West Canje, Berbice, early yesterday morning.

Government is to present a bill to parliament which is aimed at giving former Prime Minister Hamilton Green a pension that would enable him to live in accordance with the “high office” he occupied between 1985-92 and benefits under a highly controversial act for former Presidents would also be applicable to him.

Superintendent of Police Michael Sutton yesterday recounted what he described as the frightening attack on the Bartica Police Station on February 17, 2008, the day when 12 persons were massacred.

Two cousins, who were arrested after the police discovered almost 100 pounds of marijuana at a Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara apartment, were yesterday charged and remanded to prison.

A labourer was yesterday brought before a city magistrate to face a charge over the murder of Kamarang farmer Dexter Edwards.