Guyana News

The teenager who is accused of chopping his stepfather to death during last week will be making his first court appearance today after the police received legal advice, according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) yesterday ordered an inquest into the death of Tactical Services Unit (TSU) Special Constable Akeem Hyles, who drowned during a trip to the Kaieteur Falls three months ago.

The start of the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Trevor Amsterdam, who is accused of killing fugitive Jermaine Simon, has been rescheduled.

A police officer was unconscious and being readied for surgery last evening after he was accidentally run over by a car on Mandela Avenue.

For the first half of the year, the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) has recorded a 76% increase in illegal fuel seized.

There will be a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the 2006 assassination of former agriculture minister Satyadeow Sawh, his siblings and his security guard, President David Granger said last night, though he could not say when.

Even though a decision on what will happen with the recently destroyed Drop-In Centre has not been made, a source from the Ministry of Social Protection indicated that the building will not be used again and the ministry will be looking to build another structure elsewhere to house the children.

Yannick Shultz, the school boy who was struck down on Saturday afternoon, remains in the Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Russian language classes are to be launched today at the National Library in Georgetown at 5.30 pm.

The Government of Guyana this evening condemned statements made by former President Bharrat Jagdeo at an event in New York where he is reported to have said the APNU+AFC administration is engaged in an “assault on people of Indian origin”.

The United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigations concluded its 3-day financial and intelligence training in Guyana at the Guyana Police Force Officers’ Training Centre on Thursday, a release from the US Embassy said today.

Police yesterday arrested seven more persons in connection with last week’s shocking triple murder at Black Bush Polder including two prime suspects.

Four bandits carted off millions of dollars in cash and jewellery on Saturday night after holding the owner of Sanjay’s Jewellery at gunpoint at his Sheriff Street home.

An electrician died just after midnight yesterday after he was thrown out of the car he was in after the driver lost control and crashed into a fence at Diamond, East Bank Demerara.

Five persons to serve on the long-awaited Public Procurement Commission (PPC) have been selected and a report from the body responsible for the shortlisting, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will be presented to the National Assembly at next week Thursday’s sitting, sources say.

Four months after a controversial trip to China, there has been no favourable outcome on two major issues that Minister of State Joseph Harmon engaged in.

The El Niño dry weather has resulted in a drastic decline in rice cultivation this year, especially in Leguan and the Essequibo Coast and in the Mahaica, Mahaicony and Abary creeks.

Yet another statutory meeting of the Region Five Regional Democratic Council (RDC) was disrupted by APNU+AFC councillors last week and the new Regional Executive Officer (REO) Ovid Morrison has called on the leaders to be more responsible.

A Dutch team will begin work today to model the city’s drainage system as government implements recommendations to improve the drainage system.

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) executive has been reviewing the performance of the one-year-old APMU+AFC coalition government and admits that while all is not going as expected recommendations have been made to remedy that.