Guyana News

Family members of Afraz Sattaur and his common-law wife Razena Hassan, who were involved in a collision along the Mahaica, East Coast Demerara roadway on May 6, remain displeased with the lack of progress in the matter.

President David Granger yesterday attended the funeral service of Jules Kranenburg, a former Minister of Public Works and Communications with responsibility for transport under the Desmond Hoyte administration.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be conducting a Community Clean-up tomorrow at Good Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Test captain Jason Holder is among five West Indies players released by the West Indies Cricket Board to play in the initial phase of the Caribbean Premier League starting at month end.

LOUISVILLE, Ky.,  (Reuters) – Religious and political leaders joined celebrities, sports stars and tens of thousands of ordinary people today in bidding farewell to Muhammad Ali, the boxing champion who jolted America with his showmanship and won worldwide admiration as a man of conviction.

The Police are investigating the murder of Pooman Baljeet of Madewini, East Bank Demerara, which occurred about 2100h, yesterday.

A raid was last night carried out on a house in a gated community at Versailles, West Demerara and over 150 lbs of marijuana was found.

-says ‘cancer’ of overcrowding must be tackled -cites testimony of ‘indescribably harsh’ prison conditions   The Prison Commission of Inquiry (CoI) has concluded that the prisoners were mostly to blame for the deaths of 17 inmates at the Camp Street prison on March 3 and it has urged the formation of a committee to focus on reducing the overcrowding in the prison system where at least 60% of the population are on remand.

Having sent conflicting signals, City Hall last night announced that Astrolobe Technologies will not be considered for the parking meters project as it “lacks both the human and technological competencies to install and manage parking meters in the city of Georgetown.”

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) is currently seeking legal advice on whether City Hall has the right to implement a $25,000 container tax which the city council is enforcing, even as it awaits a meeting to discuss the issue.

The opposition PPP yesterday accused government of not naming all the ministerial advisors it has employed and said that they hope the error, deliberate or otherwise, is corrected soon.

The Ministry of Education has expressed sympathy to the family of Yogendra Persaud.

According to a Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) press release, over 100 ranks of the Guyana Police Force were allocated house lots in Kildonan/Chesney and Number 76 and 77 villages yesterday at prices ranging from $92,000 to $300,000.

The Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) says it is astonished at government’s reported plan to shift the tourism portfolio  to the Minister of Business and  it charged that APNU+AFC’s manifesto commitments remain “largely undelivered”.

Cabinet has granted its no-objection for  four  representatives from within the Ministry of Public Security to attend a training session hosted by the International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL).

New GPC and the International Pharmaceutical Agency (IPA) were among companies getting Cabinet’s no- objections for contracts to supply the health sector.

A third man was yesterday charged in relation to what police have said was a staged robbery involving RK security guards outside the Demerara Bank branch at Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara last month.

The police yesterday continued their hunt for an individual who it is believed played a key role in last week’s grenade lobbing incident outside of Kaieteur News even as close to a dozen suspects and the vehicle suspected to have been used by the perpetrators remain in custody.

Two men were yesterday granted bail after denying a charge of armed robbery when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Two months after solo charges of larceny and conspiracy to commit a multi-million dollar larceny were levelled against former Guyana Power and Light (GPL) director Carvil Duncan, he appeared before a city court yesterday, where the charges were amended.