Guyana News

A Sophia electrician was remanded to prison yesterday after being accused of shooting at a store owner after a dispute.

The Ministry of Communities yesterday signed an $11.8M contract with Samuel Wright, an environment management consultant from Linden, for public consultations on a draft national solid waste management strategy.

The Guyana Water Inc will officially commission its Lethem, Region 9 office within the next three weeks, the utility said yesterday in a press release.

The National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) is encouraging farmers who are interested in exporting their produce to have their farms certified.

A Linden man was yesterday charged with multiple counts of larceny stemming from a series of break-ins over a four-month period.

Mohalall Raj, 48, of Enmore, was yesterday morning found hanging by his sister in law.

NICE, France,  (Reuters) – An attacker killed up to 80 people and injured scores when he drove a heavy truck at high speed into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in the French Riviera city of Nice late today, officials said.

President David Granger has ordered that a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) be held into the recent fire at the Drop-in Centre which claimed the lives of two young children and former Guyana Defence Force spokesperson Colonel Windee Algernon has accepted the offer to conduct it.

The University of Guyana today announced that a graduation fee of $10,000 will be charged from November and it said that lecturers will be sanctioned for late grade submissions.

Opposition Leader, has said that the $25,000 container tax  that City Hall has implemented is anti-business and he also voiced grave concern at the Bank of America (BOA) withdrawing corresponding banking from Guyana.

Following a fire that claimed the lives of two young brothers at the Drop-In Centre on Hadfield Street on Friday, civil society activists and the children’s parents staged a picket outside of the Child Care and Protection Agency (CCPA) office yesterday calling for answers over the deaths and the state of the building.

Chandrashekhar  Itwaru,  43, slashed the belly of      ex lover  Jasmattie Isaacs,  after he was thrown out of his mother in law’s house , at Ankerville, Port Mourant , Corentyne, after complaints  of abuse were highlighted.

The charred remains found following a fire at a Wales, West Bank Demerara house two weeks ago, is suspected to be that of Elvin Ceres and DNA samples have been taken for testing.

An East Canje, Berbice man was yesterday jailed for three years by Magistrate Alex Moore, after he pleaded guilty to breaking into a Bath Settlement home and carting off approximately $1 million in cash and jewellery.

President David Granger last evening reaffirmed his Government’s commitment to the protection and provision of a good life for all Guyanese, especially for children.

While the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) won the presidency easily in 1992, it was one seat short of a majority in Parliament and needed one of the two smaller opposition parties to help it to get there.

The report of the inquiry into the allegations made against officials of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) by self-confessed drug lord, Barry Dataram has not yet reached cabinet and Minister of Home Affairs Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday assured that government does plan to make it public.

Private school, the ABC Academy has decided to close its doors after many years in existence.

The Guyana Police Force has welcomed the Caricom arrest warrant treaty which is slated to take effect before the end of the year, noting that it is a means of tackling cross-border crime.

Less than one day after he surrendered to the police, the suspect in the fatal beating of mechanic Yugeshwar Shiwcharan escaped from the lockups at La Grange Police Station early yesterday morning and efforts are being made to locate him.