Guyana News

An East Canje cattle farmer was found dead with four gunshot wounds yesterday at a dam in Gangaram Settlement and his family suspects that his death is linked to a recent spat over land.

Godfrey Gill, 22, and Sherwin Clark, 27, the two men who police say are responsible for murdering Better Hope pensioner David Ramkissoon, were yesterday charged with the crime as well as armed robbery.

In his absence, self-professed drug lord Barry Dataram was yesterday sentenced to 60 months in jail for trafficking cocaine, while his three co-accused, including his common-law wife, who was also a no-show, were acquitted due to a lack of evidence.

A Crop Extension Officer attached to the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) died after a vehicle she was travelling in toppled on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway in the vicinity of Bamia Creek yesterday.

The Buddy’s Pool Hall and Night Club on Sheriff Street have been closed  following a fall in business and a medical school is now operating in a part of the huge building.

The 14-year-old, of Mahaica, East Coast Demerara, who lost his life in the freak accident at Abary Creek on Monday evening, when he was reported to have been pinned by a canter truck, was helping his rice farmer father when the mishap occurred.

The police were up to last evening working towards enhancing camera footage and are carrying out several operations around Georgetown in an effort to apprehend the suspects in Monday morning’s shooting in front of the Rio Inn Nightclub which resulted in the death of a teenager.

Police have arrested a second suspect in the murder of Gafoor’s manager Terry Lackhan and say he has since confessed to the crime.

The five Haitian men who were intercepted at Wismar, Linden on Saturday, while on their way to Brazil, were yesterday charged with illegal entry into the country and fined a total of $100,000 for the crime.

An 18-year-old man is now under police guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital after being shot by an off-duty policeman following a robbery on the West Ruimveldt Public Road on Monday night.

Police yesterday arrested two men who hijacked a car on Norton Street, Georgetown, after ejecting its passengers.

The police rank implicated in the shooting of a bystander, Jean Rodrigues, in the vicinity of the Timehri Bus Park, has been reassigned as the police force completes the investigation.

A Sparendaam resident, who was yesterday charged with attempted murder, was released on $100,000 bail after denying the charge.

Police are preparing to send their file on the September 15 pit bull attacks at Leonora, West Coast Demerara for legal advice, according to acting Divisional Commander Leslie James, who says an autopsy confirmed that the deceased in one of the cases died due to injuries he sustained as a result.

Esau Gibbons, 21, and Kevin Abrams, 17, who were caught red-handed after burgling the home of attorney Paula Nicholson, were sentenced to three months in jail on Friday after admitting to the crime.

Saying they have been embarrassed and traumatised because of “false corruption allegations” made against them by an illegal operator, Guyana National Broadcasting Authority Board (GNBA) directors Vic Insanally and Anthony Vieira yesterday welcomed an independent probe promised by Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo.

The driver of the bus that toppled along the Nismes Public Road, West Bank Demerara on Monday evening, resulting in the death of the conductor, was blinded by the headlights from a car on the road, according to one of the passengers.

A Beterverwagting man, accused of having more than 14 kilogrammes of cannabis in his possession for trafficking, was yesterday denied bail by a city court.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) yesterday said that the submarine cable across the Demerara River which was damaged earlier this year should be back in operation in November.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Colin Alleyne, the man accused of killing elderly Montrose caretaker Danrasie Ganesh, will soon come to a close as two more witnesses are left to testify.