Guyana News

A security guard with a prior conviction, yesterday appeared before a city court again, charged with damage to private property.

A teen of Number Two Village, East Canje Berbice was remanded to prison in connection with the recent robbery carried out on a young couple from Cumberland Village, East Canje.

The Terms of Reference (TOR) for the investigations into the allegations of corruption and misconduct made by Kenwin Charles against members of the Guyana National Broadcasting Association (GNBA) Board was today handed over to Major General Ret’d Joe Singh by Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, at his office, at the Ministry of the Presidency.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – West Indies were in full blown crisis today after Babar Azam slammed a record third successive One-Day International hundred to condemn them to 136-run defeat, as Pakistan pulled off an emphatic 3-0 series whitewash and sent the Caribbean side tumbling to number nine in the international rankings.

Members of the Cabinet met yesterday deliberated as a matter of “extreme urgency and grave national importance”, the unsatisfactory results in mathematics nationwide, at the 2016 Grade Six Examination.

LES CAYES, Haiti/GUANTANAMO, Cuba,  (Reuters) – H urricane Matthew twisted toward the Bahamas and Florida’s east coast on Wednesday after killing at least 26 people and damaging a majority of homes in Haiti’s south, prompting the hard-hit country to postpone a long-awaited presidential election.

Retired CANU prosecutor Oswald Massiah was early this morning found dead in his car which was parked at the Parika Stelling, Divisional Commander Leslie James has confirmed.

Board Chair of the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) Board of Directors Nigel Hinds is expected to resign from his position following ongoing issues with the corporation’s Chief Executive Officer Dr Richard Van West Charles, who, according to sources, continues to act “as a law onto himself,” which results in senior staff members being barred from functioning in their positions effectively.

A Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo taxi driver died last evening after he was shot in the chest during a robbery.

A fisherman from East Canje has been missing since Friday and relatives suspect that he may be dead since someone from the boat which he was working on informed them that he had fallen overboard.

A 49-year-old joiner is currently in police custody and is expected to be charged soon with the rape of an eight-year-old girl.

Guyana yesterday blasted Venezuela for the “vituperative” statement it issued on the 117th anniversary of the 1899 Arbitral Award, which was observed on Monday.

The body of an elderly woman was on Monday morning discovered in her Cornelia Ida Squatting Area, West Coast Demerara (WCD) home with several stab wounds and it is believed that she was sexually assaulted prior to her death.

Three years after prominent television broadcaster Chandra Narine Sharma was committed to stand trial in the High Court on charges of having carnal knowledge of a girl and indecent assault, he was yesterday freed after the complainants expressed a lack of interest in pursuing the case further.

In an historic decision, the Bid Protest Committee (BPC) has upheld the Communities Ministry’s award of a $221 million one-year contract to Puran Brothers Disposal Inc for the operation and maintenance of the Haags Bosch Landfill, after finding that the evaluation criteria were followed and that the company had the lowest bid.

Two police officers, accused of accepting a bribe to forgo an assault case, were yesterday each released on bail by a city magistrate after denying the crime.

One week after he found guilty and sentenced in absentia, the police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for fugitive drug trafficker Barry Dataram and his common-law wife Anjanie Boodnarine.

Jamaal December, the police trainee who was charged last month with stealing from a fellow recruit, was on Monday sentenced to two years on probation as well as counselling for recommendation to the USAID’s Skills and Knowledge for Youth Employment (SKYE) programme.

Jewel Coats, the woman who admitted to dumping her baby on a city street because she did not want the child anymore, was yesterday fined $100,000 after she was found guilty of child endangerment.

A 65-year-old woman is now dead after she was hit down by a car driven by an Assistant Superintendent of Police at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara (WCD).