Guyana News

Almost six months after an Elections Day incident which left a presiding officer nursing back injuries and an elections observer with a damaged phone, the matter was called for the first time in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A 20-year-old Berbician yesterday died in transit from the Fort Wellington Hospital to the New Amsterdam Hospital, following delivery complications, but at least one doctor knowledgeable about the case believes the woman could have been alive if she had gone to the hospital sooner.

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security yesterday received US$75,000 ($15.4M) from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for a project to help combat human trafficking by giving support to the victims and their families.

An American citizen yesterday appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton and had his charge of entering the country illegally dismissed.

Chairman of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Winston Brassington says the company is assessing the full impact the $1 billion budget cut will have on its ability to hold to its current tariff – in the light of sustained increases in fuel prices – and to do maintenance.

The lawyer for Guyanese businessman Ed Ahmad, who has been indicted in New York over a US$50M mortgage fraud, is looking to stall the May 21 commencement of his trial in order to address a “complicated, recently emergent issue.”

A man was yesterday placed on $450,000 bail after he was charged with the offence of simple larceny at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Hazel-Octive Hamilton.

Police late Thursday night found the car of murdered GTM manager Lionel Bert Whyte parked on a street at Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, Berbice but so far there has been no sighting of the suspect.

Magistrate Faith McGusty sentenced a 25-year-old Victory Valley man on Thursday to three years jail after he was found guilty of robbery under arms and break and enter and larceny when he appeared in the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court.

The CIOG is extending gratitude to Mehran Trading Company for providing a bus to augment the services its hearse department offers to the Islamic community.

A Stanleytown couple was relieved of $11,000 as well as jewellery and other items, after two gunmen posing as relatives invaded their home on Thursday night.

Some Orealla and Siparuta residents have said that there were improprieties in the recently held Toshao and councillors elections and are calling for a fresh poll.

The funeral of Guyanese iconic artist and sculptor Phillip Moore will be held on Tuesday in Berbice, in a simple style mirroring the life he lived.

The Ministry of Home Affairs’ Citizen Security Programme (CSP) saw thirty-three youths in the Port Mourant, Corentyne area graduate last evening and Minister Clement Rohee pointed to the need for opportunities for them.

Residents of Watooka, Fair’s Rust, Richmond Hill and other nearby communities in Linden, Region Ten will soon get some measure of relief from traversing pot-holed roads as $13.9M has been allocated in the regional budget for road works, while Bosai has pledged $5M to the local authorities to augment this sum.

Twelve University of Guyana students in a group of 75 international peers are undergoing a six-week online course to gain knowledge and expertise in the global education topics that they will be facilitating in local secondary schools, according to press release from One World Youth Project(OWYP).

A Brazilian citizen was charged with having a quantity of cocaine in his possession for the purpose of trafficking in the Rupununi and was placed on $50,000 bail by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

The two men accused of murdering 17- year- old Sasenarine ‘Suraj’ Persaud of Number 70 Village on April 29, 2012 made their second appearance at the Springlands Magistrate’s Court this week and were further remanded.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through its Guyana HIV/AIDS Reduction and Prevention Project Phase 11 (USAID/GHARP 11) has engaged four local NGOs to complete the Business Planning for Health (BPH) programme, a press release from USAID said on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Express) Transport Minister Devant Maharaj yesterday said that former Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) chairman Arthur Lok Jack used a private jet to conduct business and let the State carrier pay for it.