Guyana News

Michael Caesar, one of the five men committed to stand trial for the murders of 12 persons at Bartica in 2008, is now awaiting sentence after pleading guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter yesterday.

Police in Port Kaituma, North West District are currently probing an incident where an unidentified aircraft was observed “circling” in Port Kaituma airspace last Thursday.

Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan has said that in his preliminary opinion the motion in the name of PPP/C MP Irfaan Ali calling for an immediate forensic audit into the Georgetown City Council including the controversial parking meter project, “lacks jurisdiction.”

The Guyana Police Force has taken some responsibility for last Friday’s fatal crash involving a lorry and a minibus along the Linden-Soesdyke Highway in which two persons died, admitting that there was a lapse in Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).

Acting Commissioner of Police David Ramnarine yesterday disclosed that in an effort to better serve the Berbice area, almost $4 million will be spend to operationalize mounted patrols at Black Bush Polder and its environs out of the Mibicuri Police station.

Charges will be laid out today against the bus driver who allegedly assaulted a handicapped man in the vicinity of the Demerara Harbour Bridge, according to acting Police Commissioner David Ramnarine.

Former Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran and columnist, Anand Goolsarran have chided Finance Minister, Winston Jordan for his attack on Auditor General (AG) Deodat Sharma and his report on the public accounts for 2015.

Three years after it was closed under the former administration the toll booth at the Kara Kara Bridge reopened yesterday, in a bid to increase the revenue in Linden.

Clifton Graham was yesterday cleared of the charge of murdering taxi driver Rawlston Bernard Henry, after Justice Roxane George directed a jury to return a formal verdict of not guilty.

A man and a woman charged with carjacking a taxi driver at Diamond, East Bank Demerara, where they were allegedly caught after other operators foiled their getaway, were yesterday remanded to prison.

Police yesterday requested additional time to complete statements to be served to Anjanie Boodnarine, the wife of convicted drug lord Barry Dataram, who is facing charges of forgery, fleeing the jurisdiction and leaving the country illegally.

The Guyana Police Force, over a three-month period, has received 154 complaints against officers, six of whom were dismissed during last month, while five were transferred to other locations pending investigations into police misconduct.

An 11-year-old boy is currently in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a Brazilian hospital after being involved an incident with a car at Lethem.

When the 11th Parliament meets for its 45th sitting this Friday the government side of the house will be called on to inform the public about all aspects of the D’Urban Park Development Project.

Two armed bandits stormed a cellphone shop located on Albert Street yesterday morning and made off with a quantity of cellphones and watches, the total value of which is so far unknown.

A father of six, implicated in two armed robberies on the East Bank Demerara, was yesterday remanded to prison after denying the charges in a city court.

A Laing Avenue youth was yesterday charged with stealing a ring and cash, valued at $1 million in total, from his boss.

Truck driver Roopnarine Hardiwar, who was on trial for causing the incident at Pearl, East Bank Demerara that left a pedal cyclist dead in 2014, was yesterday found guilty and sentenced to three years in jail.

The police have not yet made any arrests in relation to the last Thursday’s drive-by shooting in Sophia during which Kevin Inniss was shot dead and his friend injured.

Oral Health Month is being launched today with an Oral Health Fair and free dental treatment.