Guyana News

Government is seeking international assistance to improve the country’s ability to detect aircraft which enter its airspace illegally, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said yesterday.

A 24-year-old man is now in police custody after he was found with two illegal guns and ammunition.

The building that housed the Learning Resource Centre (LRC) at the University of Guyana’s Turkeyen Campus is being repurposed as office space for the university’s Vice-Chancellor and his Cabinet.

Police on the West Coast of Demerara are investigating the discovery of a body that was found on the foreshore at Hague.

Citizens who traverse the Demerara Harbour Bridge will see some relief of the morning congestion by the end of the month as the company announced that it will restart night retractions.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with stealing raw gold from miners in the interior.

Plans for a brand new maternity unit for the New Amsterdam Hospital are included in the health budget estimate of $2.1 billion for 2017 which has already been prepared and submitted, according to Director of Public Health Services Region Six, Jevaughn Stephen.

The former reputed wife of Hamid Latiff, called ‘Crapo’ who is on trial before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow for the 2010 murder of her 16-year old brother, testified yesterday that she had seen Latiff and her brother on a dam, shortly before pulling her brother’s bloodied body from a nearby trench.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday announced several contracts that government gave its no objection to, at last Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday said that as soon as the National Assembly is reconvened and the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) completes Terms of Reference (ToR) for the Public Procurement Commission, President David Granger will swear in its members.

Government has selected its nominees and prepared the infrastructure for the establishment of the Local Government Commis-sion, according to State Minister Joseph Harmon, who said the constitutional body would be “established soon” but would not give a date.

A second person is being questioned by the police in connection with the murder of taxi driver Rolun Jodmie.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Colin Alleyne, the man accused of killing elderly Montrose caretaker Danrasie Ganesh, has been adjourned until next year due to his erratic behaviour in court yesterday during a review of video footage.

A jury has been empanelled for the High Court trial of the five men accused of the massacre of 12 people at Bartica in 2008.

A man was yesterday sentenced to four years in jail and fined $5.7 million after being found guilty of possession of cannabis for trafficking.

A Nismes man, who is accused of abusing the mother of his child, was yesterday granted bail after his lawyer claimed that he was only trying to defend himself.

LES CAYES, Haiti/PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew has killed at least 339 people in Haiti, including dozens in one coastal town that authorities and rescue workers were only beginning to reach days after the storm, officials said on Thursday.

President David Granger is to address Parliament on Thursday, October 13.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) says it will be meeting with a team from China Harbour Engineering Ltd.

A Barbadian man, Frederick Christopher Hawkesworth who had been accused of involvement in a drug ring with several Guyanese in 2004 was found dead on the island on Saturday with a suspected bullet wound to the head.