Guyana News

(Trinidad Express) State-owned Caribbean Airlines (CAL) is in danger of being downgraded, People’s National Movement (PNM) Senator Lester Henry said yesterday.

The Donald Ramotar administration yesterday moved to the court to challenge the recent cuts made to the national budget, arguing that the opposition-controlled National Assembly had no power to reduce or set public spending.

The father of a 17-year-old, who died earlier this year from a suspected cocaine overdose, is calling for a full investigation of her death as there is suspicion that she was murdered to prevent her testifying in a cattle rustling case, in Moco Moco, Lethem, Region Nine.

The China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC), the company designated to expand the Timehri airport, yesterday said that its parent company inherited a 2009 World Bank  blacklisting when it took over a company in 2005 that had been sanctioned for a 2002 project in the Philippines.

Last Friday, hundreds of persons across Guyana woke up to discover that their attempts to connect to the internet via dial-up resulted in repeated failures.

A young mother was on Monday night beaten in the streets of an East Coast village by her common-law husband because she left their house without his permission.

Police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for Pooran Jaundoo for questioning in connection with the murder of US-based Guyanese Abdul Majid on April 27, 2012.

Burglars carted away millions from a Stabroek Market jewellery store and officials believe that other market stallholders may be involved.

A sign painter yesterday afternoon cheated death when he was miraculously pulled out alive, but with serious injuries, from under a truck which had crashed into the signboard he was designing at the National Cultural Centre.

There were 35 cases completed in the criminal sessions up to last month, according to the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

Shellon Gillian was found to be a credible witness yesterday  in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and  was reprimanded and discharged on a charge of common assault.

Sandy Freeman and Derek Norton who are neighbours appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday following a fracas that reportedly involved wounding and assault and were granted bail by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.

President Donald Ramotar has said builders and contractors should seek alternative materials as a means of buffering the rising costs of traditional building materials.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) in collaboration with the University of Calgary, Canada and the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) is providing training for staff in radiography and neonatal intensive care.

A jury was yesterday empanelled in the High Court for the trial of Sherwin Barnwell, who is accused of a murder on Christmas Eve in 2006.

A man who threatened to chop off his wife’s head because he was hungry and she had not finished cooking was fined $15,000 yesterday and put on a one-year bond by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.

The second Regional Advisory Group (RAG) meeting for the German Technical Cooperation (GIZ)/PANCAP project “Improving Access to HIV Services For Mobile and Migrant Populations in the Caribbean” started on Monday in Trinidad and Tobago.

Terrence Wills, who faced an indictable charge of larceny from the person in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Monday, was denied bail by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.

Jermain Johnson was on Monday fined $3,000 and committed to do three months community service for possession of one gramme of cannabis.

The man who is accused of stabbing and hammering a mother of ten failed to appear at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday where he was expected to answer to three charges after he suffered a relapse and had to be readmitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital.