Guyana News

President Donald Ramotar yesterday issued his clearest warning yet to the opposition that their one-seat majority will not result in the passage of bills unless the executive – government – has had input in them.

The corpse of a baby, believed to have been born in the Sunflower Hotel at the corner of South Road and Cummings Street, was yesterday found in a trash can at the rear of the hotel.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) yesterday described Justice Ian Chang’s commutation of the death penalty of four prisoners to life imprisonment as “courageous”, and declared it “a welcome rejoinder to the evasion and  duplicity by popularity-pandering politicians over the years.”

Well known local comedian Linden ‘Jumbie’ Jones and his wife Maria Benschop were, in the wee hours of yesterday morning, robbed of over $250,000 in cash and items by an armed gunman and accomplice at their West Ruimveldt home, two houses away from the West Ruimveldt Police Station.

President Donald Ramotar declared in an interview yesterday with the National Communications Network that former president Bharrat Jagdeo is not ‘steering the wheel from behind the scenes’.

The debate on an opposition motion on Government’s handling of the disposal of national assets through the Privatisation Unit and National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) had to be adjourned because of time last evening.

A man who told his reputed wife that he would shoot her because  a bedroom window which was left open caused their bed to be wet by the rain was yesterday imprisoned for 10 days by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.

A celebration of the beginning of the summer vacation ended tragically for a 14-year-old Guyanese boy, who drowned on Tuesday afternoon after he and others ignored warnings and ventured into the ocean at a New York City beach.

APNU and the AFC last evening used their combined parliamentary majority to move the four service commissions towards financial independence.

The Georgetown Public Hospital has denied that it buried the 12-pound baby born to teacher Pamela Lashley, but claims that the child was stillborn and “the hospital’s policy is not to perform autopsies on stillborn (mascerated) babies”.

Mark Solomon is believed to have been hacked to death because he prevented his assailant from stealing another worker’s gold band hours before, at the Pritipaul Singh Investments (PSI) fisheries complex, on the East Bank of Demerara.

As Kwesi Wilson bled from fatal stab wounds, Eon Williams was seen running away, the sister of the dead man testified in the High Court yesterday.

The prosecution yesterday closed its case in the Neesa Gopaul murder preliminary inquiry and June 29 has now been set as the date for the defence to lay over submissions to the court.

WPA leaders yesterday said the party is willing to speak about the events that preceded the assassination of co-leader Dr Walter Rodney, on the condition that the disclosure is made to a wide-ranging Truth and Reconciliation Commission with the goal of bringing the country together.

An autopsy has found that organ failure caused the death of Charran ‘Ajai’ Dhanai, the 15-year-old of Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, who passed away at the Skeldon Hospital last week after being admitted for a fever.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) in partnership with the Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest), yesterday called on all eligible businesses to apply for CARIFORUM’s Regional Private Sector Development Programme grants to enhance their business growth.

Gopaul Tawari called ‘Onkar’, 42, is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to Obtaining Money by False Pretence committed on Bibi Shamin Zadeef which occurred on 2011-07-15.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 0330h on Tuesday at Republic Road, New Amsterdam, and which resulted in the death of pedestrian Suresh Jagmohan, 18 years, of Belvedere, Corentyne.

Suriname President and Caricom Chairman Desi Bouterse is hosting a high-level youth exchange between Caricom youth leaders and young people from UNASUR aimed at boosting their leadership skills in order to mobilize youth for a greater role in influencing regional policies.

Candidates preparing for the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) and the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) are being provided with study guides  designed to give them  extra support and assistance in their preparation for the examinations.