Guyana News

Students of the Freeburg Secondary School are the recipients of a newly refurbished library space and reading room, thanks to Nulli Secundus, a youth group stemming from the Wortmanville Assemblies of God Church.

Acting Police Commissioner David Ramnarine said last Friday that the police investigation into the 2015 gunning down of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing is still very much alive.

With the increased flow of information between the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and local law enforcement agencies, US Ambassador to Guyana Perry Holloway says he expects there will be “a lot more good news.”

Despite a lawyer’s desperate plea for bail, her client was remanded to prison on a charge of trafficking over 300 grammes of weed in the interior.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Veteran West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo on Monday revealed that the West Indies Cricket Board’s decision to axe “trusted” head coach Phil Simmons on the day of the squad’s departure for Dubai, had left the Caribbean side demoralized for the ongoing limited overs tour against Pakistan.

LES CAYES, Haiti, (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew bore down on Haiti today where towns and villages braced for “catastrophic” floods and mudslides that forecasters fear will be triggered by 140 mile-per-hour (220 kph) winds and up to 3 feet of rain over its denuded hills.

Agriculture Minister Noel Holder today accepted a proposal to commence discussions for an all-weather road from #58/59 Villages to Canje Creek, a release from the Ministry of Agriculture said.

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran and former Attorney General Anil Nandlall yesterday skewered the award of a school feeding juice contract to Surinamese company, Rudisa following a report in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek that mandatory tests were not done by the food and drug department.

A  Professional Guard Service (PGS)  guard was shot and two others grazed by bullets after the armoured vehicle they were in came under a hail of gunfire, shortly before midnight, at Demerara Bank’s Camp Street and South Road branch.

President David Granger says drug trafficking is a key progenitor of crime and he pledged to bring it to an end.

The Government has issued an order to acquire the east quarter of Lot 92 Middle and Carmichael streets under The Acquisition of Lands for Public Purposes Act.

Students of the University of Guyana will be taking to the picket line today in protest at the recently announced  5% increase in tuition fees.

An apology has been issued to parents of female students of Santa Rosa Secondary School, North West District who were stripped and searched last month for missing money.

While the Guyana Police Force says there is no increase in crime here, former President Donald Ramotar differs, saying that not only there is a rise but it is different from  the crimes of the past and is  as a direct result of high unemployment rates.

The Bartica Town Council is pleading with residents and business owners to pay their rates and taxes as the fledgling municipality is “cash-strapped.”

The International Children’s Heart Foundation (ICHF) has completed 175 cardiac-related procedures during its sixth mission in Guyana, which came to an end on Saturday.

Police are monitoring at least 120 Close Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras set up in and on the outskirts of the city and their use has been successful in identifying and charging traffic violators, Acting Police Commissioner David Ramnarine disclosed on Friday.

Acting Crime Chief Hugh Jessemy says police are still investigating the Friday night shooting at Enmore, East Coast Demerara that left three persons injured.

The cane harvesters attached to Rose Hall estate who are currently on strike over a disagreement in relation to daily quotas had failed to meet “agreed standard requirements,” according to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo).

Devon King, who was involved in an accident on the Friendship, East Bank Demerara public road which claimed the lives of two brothers Jonnel Armstrong, 28, and Phillip Armstrong, 27, remains a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.