Guyana News

(Trinidad Express) Former secretary general of the Commonwealth, Sir Shridath Ramphal QC, says the region should have been celebrating the 50th anniversary of the West Indian nation on May 31.

(Trinidad Express) Two security officers were shot late Saturday night in an incident at Santa Maria hotel at Bhagna Trace, Chaguanas.

(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley has criticised United National Congress (UNC) deputy political leader, Dr Roodal Moonilal, for imputing that his wife, Sharon Rowley, had any inappropriate dealing in Calder Hart’s acquisition of property in Tobago with State funds.

A 38-year-old mother of ten  was on life support up to press time last night at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH)  after she was stabbed and hammered mercilessly by her partner at their Freeman Street, East La Penitence home yesterday morning.

A 36-year old man, who allegedly stole two pieces of metal from a Norton Street scrap metal dealer, was yesterday morning found dead aback the Princes Street incinerator in the city.

A 45-year-old father of three died before he could be pulled from a car which crashed into a ditch on Carifesta Avenue early yesterday morning and the driver has since vanished.

Preliminary investigations into the  fire that destroyed the building which houses G Bacchus Enterprises, formerly MFK Trading on Hadfield Street, indicate that it was electrical in nature and dozens of persons may now be on the breadline following the inferno.

The much-hyped concert featuring the son of the late reggae icon Bob Marley, Damian ‘Junior Gong’ Marley as part of the inaugural Food, Arts and Music Festival (FAM Fest) was a success with an estimated 20,000 persons in attendance.

The Bartica Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) had been dissolved and an Interim Management Committee (IMC) installed despite opposition by some residents at a Local Government Ministry enquiry held in the township in March.

AFC Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan says that the process and the criteria used in the allocation of land for officials at ‘Pradoville Two’ is one of the issues that will be probed when National Industrial, Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) officials are called before a parliamentary committee.

By John Richards A call was made on Wednesday for the provision of facilities and equipment, in particular computers, at Mahdia, since that community did not benefit from the One Laptop Per Family project.

Although deeply divided on several issues, residents of Kwakwani and other nearby communities united for Independence Day on Friday night.

A man who said that he had an unlicensed 9mm pistol and nine live rounds of ammunition for his protection and not to harm anyone  was jailed for  four years and fined $200,000 on Wednesday by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The relatives of Judy Joseph say that they cannot accept that she died as a result of hypertension since too many things including why her pants and underwear were pulled down, are still unexplained.

There are now two approved bus routes between Guyana and Brazil and persons wishing to provide transportation services can apply to the Ministry of Home Affairs to do so.

Former Commissioner of Police, Laurie Lewis has been hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) following complications related to his pre-existing kidney ailment.

As part of a project to address the human rights of the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgendered (LGBT), the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) has developed a draft Child Protection Policy meant to guide persons from the organisation in reporting cases of child physical and sexual abuse.

PPP executive Ralph Ramkarran has called for the decriminalizing of same sex relationships saying that the present laws are archaic and that the society should be liberal in outlook and socially progressive.

President Donald Ramotar, Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh and Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon led the government team in discussions on international, regional and domestic issues with a group of International Relations academics from the University of the West Indies (UWI).

The Muslim Youth League/Anna Catherina Islamic Complex (MYL/ACIC) Computer School was officially reopened two Friday ago boosted by a donation of computers from the US Embassy.