Guyana News

Former Chairman of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) and now Minister in the Ministry of Finance Juan Edghill says the cutting by the opposition of $99.4 million for the  entity in this year’s budget has effectively shut it down as  it cannot pay salaries nor meet its operating expenses like electricity, water and internet bills.

An armed gang stormed a mining camp at 23 Miles Issano on Sunday and escaped with raw gold and an All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) after tying up miners, in the latest attack highlighting security concerns in the country’s gold fields.

APNU MP Ronald Bulkan has condemned the installation of an interim management council at the Bartica NDC and the man who headed the body for 17 years said that the change was made stealthily by the government.

The driver of a pick-up truck is on the run after he struck down a motorcyclist, United States citizen, Micaiah Young, 21, along the Bath Settlement Public Road around 9 am yesterday.

Two rifles including one fitted with a telescopic lens were yesterday afternoon discovered in a Kitty house and up to press time last evening two brothers were in police custody in connection with the find.

Four armed men last evening stormed into the No. 58 Village, Corentyne home of market vendors Mohabir Dhanraj and his wife, shooting the man in his leg and beating the woman before escaping with cash and jewellery.

The UK Royal Society of Literature stated in a press release on Monday that Rahul Bhattacharya has won the 2012 Ondaatje Prize worth £10,000 for his first novel ‘The Sly Company of People Who Care’ based on his year-long sojourn Guyana.

On May 9th, when Nathan Samuel James’ unmanned boat was found drifting in the Pomeroon River, the visible damage on the vessel led his family to believe that it had been hit by another vessel and he fell overboard and drowned.

A pensioner of El Dorado, West Coast Berbice was badly beaten on Monday afternoon with a broom by a teenager who had snatched his walking stick and thrown it away.

Grant-a-Dream on May 28 donated items valued over $1M to the Paediatric Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.

The Guyana Association of Private Security Organisations (GAPSO) has expressed concern over the lack of any consultation on the  increase announced in the minimum wage, considering that the group is a major stakeholder in the security sector.

Shawn Hopkinson and Coretta Hopkinson were yesterday advised to seek counselling when they appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court accused of assaulting each other.

The businessman who fled the scene after crashing the car in which his employee lost his life on Saturday night has turned himself in to police and negotiated a compensation agreement with the dead man’s family.

Workers at Enmore Sugar Estate yesterday began a planned three-day strike to sound their dissatisfaction over the terms of an agreement for salary increases for years they were underpaid by GuySuCo.

The family of the contractor wanted over the month-old murder of a Trinidadian teen is still receiving threatening calls from a person claiming to be a relative of the dead girl and who has said both suspects have been captured and are being tortured.

The Government Analyst/Food and Drug Department says that foreign language food and drug labels are proliferating in the country and it warned again that English labels are required on all imported commodities and it will be seizing products that don’t comply.

Approximately six weeks after 24-year-old GR taxi driver Balram Jadoonauth was gunned down execution-style in front of his Dennis Street, Campbellville home the police are yet to crack the case.

The fire that claimed the home of Yasin Hamid, of Felicity, East Coast Demerara is suspected to be a result of a kerosene stove left alight by his wife earlier during the day.

Nazeema Persaud, the granddaughter of murdered Kaneville businessman Barbot Paul, yesterday took the stand at the trial of the man accused of murdering him.

A Sophia man landed in the hospital last evening after an assailant hit him to the head with a piece of wood and there is fear that his condition may deteriorate since he has previously undergone a series of surgeries to the head.