Guyana News

Former President of Guyana Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday lashed out at the opposition for cutting the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) funds from the budget and said it will hold the country back and retard growth.

Director of Pest Control Plus Mohammed Baksh was last night shot by two gunmen, in an attack on Thomas Street, Georgetown and succumbed this morning, police said.

An elderly Chateau Margot resident shot himself dead with a shotgun yesterday, shortly after firing at his daughter and trying to break into the apartment where she hid from him.

CEO of the International Pharmaceutical Agency (IPA) Lloyd Singh yesterday charged that there is still to be a level playing field in the award of contracts for the supply of drugs, while saying that his company is still trying to find out why it failed a pre-qualification process undertaken two years ago.

City Hall has been asked to respond to the findings of a recent probe that suggest major fraud in its operations, including “phantom” workers on the payroll, payments to front companies and abuse of its assets.

The Donald Ramotar-led administration has appealed the decision by acting Chief Justice Ian Chang to throw out its challenge of the numerical make-up of the National Assembly’s Committee of Selection and other key committees.

Britain is to plough ₤1.5 million into boosting Guyana’s agricultural exports as the Department for International Development (DfID) takes over an agricultural diversification programme from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

A man died of severe burns about his body yesterday after he accidentally set himself on fire, by falling asleep with a lit cigarette at his Ogle, East Coast Demerara home.

The body of an epileptic resident of No. 28 Village, West Coast Berbice, was discovered in a drain close to his home, where he is believed to have drowned yesterday.

Despite hundreds of millions spent on infrastructural development, Block 22 Wismar, Linden remains beset by deteriorating roads and major erosion.

Four masked bandits armed with a gun terrorised and robbed an Albion, Corentyne family in an attack on Thursday night.

Two of the four Venezuelans who were burnt about their bodies when a fuel boat exploded at Morawhanna, in Region One, last Sunday, have succumbed to their injuries.

The family of Gerald Fraser, the cook who was aboard cargo vessel Miss Elissa that capsized in the Demerara River last Friday afternoon, has given up hope that he will ever be found.

The Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) has suggested that Pamela Lashley, whose 12-pound baby died during delivery, is suffering from post-partum depression or psychosis and indicated its willingness to provide counselling to her.

Kwame McCoy’s trial on charges of assault and threatening language continued yesterday with two witnesses taking the stand but the defence was granted a needed adjournment after serious blunders while taking the evidence.

The assault and threatening language charges against radio broadcaster Malcolm Ferreira were yesterday dismissed after the virtual complainant (VC), his wife, told the court that she no longer wished to proceed.

Two men accused of breaking into a building and stealing $2 million in cash and other items were yesterday granted bail in the sum of $250,000 each by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Kwesi Wilson, who was allegedly stabbed to death by accused Eon Williams, had earlier attacked the man with a knife, a witnessed testified on Thursday.

Pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh yesterday testified that a stab wound to the right side of the chest was the operating factor resulting in Nohar Bahadur’s death, when the trial of Sherwin Barnwell continued yesterday in the High Court before Justice Franklyn Holder.

The US Embassy on Thursday, in celebration of Secretary Clinton’s Global Economic Statecraft Day, hosted a roundtable with entrepreneurs to discuss economic opportunities and areas of possible collaboration in supporting small enterprises.