Guyana News

Tracy Fordyce, the driver who hit visiting St Lucian cub scouts and a scout leader on Tuesday along Woolford Avenue, was yesterday sentenced to 10 months in prison after pleading guilty to a dangerous driving charge.

The Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) has added Green Engineering, one of nine new generation subjects, to its portfolio.

A soldier based at Camp Ayanganna was on Wednesday granted bail in the sum of $10,000, on a charge of having a stolen cell phone in his possession.

A convicted felon was returned to jail yesterday after he admitted to being found with a quantity of marijuana.

The Rotary Club of Stabroek, Georgetown recently inaugurated its new President and Board of Directors for 2016-2017, at a ceremony held at the Pegasus Hotel.

The police today said that the driver of the motor vehicle who was involved in an accident with two St Lucian cub scouts has been jailed for 10 months.

The draft State Assets Recovery Bill 2016 envisages non-conviction based, civil recoveries of property over $10m with a 12-year limitation period and wide powers will be available to the agency to be set up under the law to gather information.

Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Raphael Trotman yesterday said that the government will not be “lectured” to in the press on the issue of forestry concessions, while announcing that the arrival of officials from a company in China that may take over the operations of the controversial Baishanlin is being awaited.

Seven men, including the main suspect who was arrested in connection with the Black Bush Polder, Corentyne triple murder were transported to Georgetown on Tuesday evening and are currently being questioned by ranks from the Criminal Investigation Department’s (CID), Major Crimes Unit.

The police yesterday issued a  bulletin for Anthony Jhagroo, who is wanted for questioning in relation to two offences: escaping from lawful custody and the murder of mechanic, Yugeshwar Shiwcharan.

Five police officers attached to the Brickdam Police Station are currently under close arrest after they allegedly stole a quantity of raw gold from some miners last Friday.

A private bauxite mining operation in the Amerindian community of Muritaro on the Demerara River, discovered by members of a “horrified” team from Norway, was shut down by the Ministry of Natural Resources late last year, since the community was one identified to benefit from the Guyana-Norway forest protection scheme.

Attorney at Law Joann Bond will now head the recently-constituted Bid Protest Committee (BPC) established under the Procurement Act, well-placed sources say.

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Clement Rohee says that the statement that Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo made recently in New York about people of Indian ancestry being discriminated against is factual.

Government says it welcomes Venezuelans visiting Guyana legally to shop given the current economic state of the country but that they have to ensure that their entrance is legal.

Immigration authorities within the last year have denied entry to 186 CARICOM nationals because of “insufficient funds” and Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix yesterday defended this stance saying that it is part of the efforts to prevent trafficking in persons.

Environmental matters will soon be removed from under the Ministry of Natural Resources as government believes that not only are the duties of both sectors taxing on Minister Raphael Trotman but they may pose a potential conflict.

“I desperately need your help,” was the plea of a homeless drug addict, who was on Tuesday charged with stealing a brush cutter.

The mother of St. Lucian Cub Scout, Nick Omari Joseph, who was seriously injured following an accident on Tuesday afternoon at Woolford Avenue, flew into the country yesterday as his condition remains critical but stable.

Passengers who were onboard the MV Sabanto when it crashed into the Supenaam Ferry Stelling on Tuesday evening, said everyone “panicked” because they were not sure what was happening.