Guyana News

(Trinidad Express) Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs said yesterday that in the last two months of 2012 there has been a resurgence of homicides.

MILAN,  (Reuters) – An earthquake struck northern Italy today, killing at least 10 people, damaging buildings and spreading panic among thousands of residents still living in tents after a tremor shook the region just over a week ago, destroying their homes.

(Trinidad Express) Works Minister Jack Warner has no case to answer with respect to allegations of bribery purported to have taken place at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, in Port of Spain on or about May 10, 2011.

MANILA, (Reuters) – The Philippine Senate voted today to remove the country’s top judge for failing to disclose his wealth, a landmark victory for President Benigno Aquino as he pushes a campaign to root out endemic corruption in the Southeast Asian nation.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) yesterday reported first crop production falling significantly short of its target and it blamed labour problems and above average rainfall for the poor results even as it appealed for the support of the workers’ unions to arrest the situation.

Sharon Howell, the mother of 10 who was stabbed and hammered mercilessly by her partner on Sunday, had been constantly threatened and relatives believe that plans she was making to return home to Barbados may have motivated the attack.

Yasin Hasim and family, expecting to welcome the newest member next month, are now without a home after fire gutted their house at Felicity, on the East Coast Demerara around noon yesterday.

Story and photo by Marcelle Thomas A horrific smash-up yesterday afternoon involving two Route 42 minibuses, at Coverden, East Bank Demerara (EBD) has left three residents of Kuru-Kururu in critical condition, while several others sustained minor injuries.

The police will be conducting an internal investigation into last Saturday’s fatal shooting of Nidal Watkins even as his relatives say they will be meeting among themselves to discuss a way forward.

Kevin George, the police constable who was shot last Thursday with arrows, chopped in the head and beaten while transporting a suspect to the Monkey Mountain outpost in Region Eight is said to be improving but relatives are upset about his hospital care.

Persons in West Berbice are outraged that although a medical examination proved that an eight-year-old girl was repeated raped, reportedly by a male relative, the suspect has been released.

US Regional Environmental Officer Indran J Amirthanayagam believes that the ordinary person still does not sufficiently understand what REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is, and this must change if they are to contribute to sustainable development in countries like Guyana.

Donna Thomas, whose bloody corpse was found at her D’Urban Street home on Saturday, is believed to have been killed by an abusive partner over the money she collected hours before.

The trial of Office of the President (OP) Press and Publicity Officer Kwame McCoy, who was charged with assault over the gun-butting of Clifton Stewart, saw the final submissions of the prosecution and defence yesterday before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Acting Auditor General Deodat Sharma is still probing how an allocation of $90 million was spent by the Guyana Police Force during last year’s elections and he is unwilling to give a timetable for completion.

Region Eight (Potaro/Siparuni) councillors say they are being “left in the dark” about an invitation for bids for several infrastructural projects which was   advertised in the PPP’s newspaper, the Mirror.

While expressing remorse over his recent conduct, Toshao of the Santa Rosa Village Council at Moruca, Richard Cornelius, is working with the 12-member body to develop the community, having placed a recent alcohol-related incident behind him.

The condition of the 16-year-old girl who was brutally chopped with a cutlass by her lover at Big Creek Backdam, North West District (NWD) is said to be improving and she was yesterday transferred to the High Dependency Unit (HDU).

A labourer was stabbed to death at Wineperu Backdam, Essequibo River last Saturday by a man who has since been hospitalized after being chopped by a bystander.

A man was shot and killed by a security guard on Sunday night after he and another were allegedly caught attempting to steal a transformer in the compound of the Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) wharf on Lombard Street.