Guyana News

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.

Guyana has registered its concerns to United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon following escalating claims by Venezuela over the Essequibo, the latest being reported overflights for the completing of an atlas and digital mapping, Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge says.

Major General (ret’d) Joe Singh will investigate the allegations of misconduct made by broadcaster Kenwin Charles against members of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) Board, the Ministry of the Presidency yesterday announced.

Eight workers from Demerara Timbers Limited (DTL) at Mabura Hills, Region 10 have been dismissed for protesting outside the company’s head office in Georgetown on Monday to press for salary increases.

Months after refusing to make public an analysis of students’ performance at this year’s National Grade Six examination, government yesterday announced that cabinet as a matter of “extreme urgency and grave national importance” is examining the mathematics results which it is perturbed about.

Stabroek News photographer Keno George and three other persons were yesterday held at gunpoint and robbed of valuables worth over $1 million while they were doing a fashion shoot in D’Urban Backlands.

A man is in a critical condition at a city hospital, four days after he was shot and robbed of a gold chain in full view of his brother outside the Dynasty Sports Club, Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt.

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) has appealed the decision which saw Barry Dataram being convicted of cocaine trafficking but his three alleged accomplices being freed, the unit’s Head James Singh said yesterday even as the police say the search continues for the missing convict who apparently fled Guyana days before the verdict was handed down.

A man has been arrested in connection with the robbery/murder of taxi driver Rolun Jodmie, who was shot once to his chest and robbed of a quantity of valuables allegedly by persons who posed as passengers.

The city’s demolition of dozens of derelict buildings has been put on hold by the City Engineer’s Department for further consultations with occupants and owners.

The trial of Sharlene Oxley, the Pattensen businesswoman who is accused of trafficking a young woman, commenced yesterday in the court room of Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan.

Retired CANU special prosecutor Oswald Massiah was yesterday morning found dead in his car which was parked at the Parika Stelling, East Bank Essequibo.

Some 450 student teachers will each receive a laptop under the government’s One Laptop Per Teacher (OLPT) initiative, which was launched yesterday.

Almost three months after she tragically lost her two sons in a fire at the Drop-in Centre, Sonia George is frustrated since the system that is supposed to help her family continues to fail and all she wants is to have her three remaining children returned to her care.

The Mayor and City Council is spending over $19 million on repair and rehabilitation of bridges in the city.