Guyana News

The cook for a cargo ship is missing and feared dead after the vessel capsized in the Demerara River yesterday afternoon.

A Charlestown man was critically wounded after gunmen opened fire on him, injuring two others in the process at a football match at the National Cultural Centre tarmac in the city last night.

Fisherman Vishwanauth Narine was stabbed to death by another man in front his Plastic City home yesterday morning, as a result of a dispute over a missing gas cylinder.

In the wake of a mother blaming negligence and procrastination by doctors and nurses as the cause of her 12-pound newborn’s death, the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) yesterday denied culpability.

Low cost regional carrier REDjet, which attracted many passengers in Guyana and other parts of the Caribbean, yesterday formally signalled its closure and applied for bankruptcy protection.

Georgetown, particularly its central district, was inundated yesterday, with water rising to as high as two feet in some areas.

Attorney-at-law Deborah Backer yesterday described as a diversion, the imminent move by Prime Minister Sam Hinds to re-table a motion to have the National Assembly ensure that Members of Parliament submit annual declarations, in keeping with the requirements of the Integrity Commission Act.

Jason Abdulla, the witness for former president Bharrat Jagdeo in his $10M libel suit against Kaieteur News columnist Freddie Kissoon, yesterday testified that he was unable to recall the contents of most of the articles he compiled to support the case, after an accident left him with lapses in his memory.

Land access to sections of Kumaka, in the Mabaruma Sub-Region has been cut off after the nearby Aruka River severely eroded parts of the waterfront in recent weeks.

The beleaguered $300M Amelia’s Ward road works have been halted for more than a week now due to inclement weather, even as regional leaders prepare for a new inspection.

The Linden Utility Services Co-op Society Limited (LUSCSL) yesterday commissioned a $3.8 million Wood-Mizer sawmill to begin work on its concession at 28 Miles, Mabura Road, following warnings by the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) that it would be repossessed for lack of utilisation.

The second National Drama Festival (NDF) was launched yesterday with new incentives for budding actors and playwrights.

Chairman of Region Seven Gordon Bradford has denied that he offered support to the newly-installed Bartica Interim Management Com-mittee (IMC).

The body of Collin Sealey, the prisoner who jumped into the Mahaicony River after escaping custody, was found along the foreshore of Mahaicony yesterday morning.

A man was arrested yesterday in connection with an unlicensed weapon found by a police patrol at a mining camp at Arimu Backdam, Cuyuni.

Two of the three men accused in a 2004 murder at Hampshire Village, Corentyne were acquitted earlier this week after Magistrate Fabio Azore ruled that a prima facie case had not been made out against them.

A man, who stole four hats from his former employer and in a separate incident stole money from a woman, was sentenced to 12 months in jail when he appeared before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A man who assaulted a woman living in the same house with him was yesterday remanded to prison, after he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday to answer another charge of common assault.

Days after his car was stolen from his garage, Blairmont, West Bank Berbice resident Pooran Sewkaran managed to recover the vehicle on Wednesday abandoned at Mahaica.

All 16 member governments of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) have pledged to renew their hurricane and earthquake insurance for the 2012-2013 policy year.