Guyana News

Linden’s Town Clerk has been directed to go on administrative leave yesterday, pending the completion of an inquiry into her conduct.

A 49-year-old Berbice man was yesterday charged with raping an eight-year-old primary school student.

Following talks between GuySuCo and the Guyana Agricultural & General Workers’ Union (GAWU), cane harvesters of the Rose Hall Estate, who were on strike for six days, have returned to work.

Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Barton Scotland and Senior Counsel Rex McKay were yesterday bestowed with the Order of Roraima, Guyana’s second highest national award, while 84 other national awardees received honours in a ceremony held at the National Cultural Centre.

Major renovations slated for the Ministry of the Presidency are on hold pending a decision to relocate some offices to the National Trust building, located next to State House, on Carmichael Street “There has been no decision yet on the National Trust but as soon a decision is made in that regard, certainly, you will know,” Minister of State Joseph Harmon said yesterday, when asked by Stabroek News for an update on government’s decision to move to the building.

The City Constabulary will be recommending that vending be discontinued under the Stabroek Market clock, following the discovery of a rifle there, according to Chief Constable Andrew Foo.

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.