Guyana News

The man who was killed when a vehicle struck him down at Camp Road and Young Street on Monday evening was yesterday identified as 56-year-old Michael Easton of 277 West Ruimveldt.

At the tender age of 17, Samantha Wackford’s life was changed forever when a man walked up to her in the vicinity of Bourda Market and threw acid in her face, blinding her and disfiguring her face forever.

The National Gallery has opened to the public a Book of Remembrance for the late artist and sculptor Phillip Moore in the foyer of Castellani House.

Police investigators are in search of a man who was seen fighting with Lionel Bert Whyte minutes before he collapsed in front of a popular Main Street hangout spot with stab wounds to his body.

Some of the agencies affected by the recent budget cuts are said to be in dire straits and while their employees are on the job, they may only be able to receive their May 2012 salaries if there is some intervention between now and pay day.

Ignatius France, the man who was arrested in connection with the murder of twenty-year-old Mark Ashby of Mabaruma, North West District, was brought to the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday on the capital charge of murder and was remanded to prison  by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.

Lawrence Allicock who is facing two counts of robbery under arms and Kurt Sommer who is charged with trafficking in cannabis  appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton on Monday in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and returned yesterday to receive dates for commencement of their hearings.

Police are yet to make a breakthrough in the shooting case of two miners, which left one dead, and another still hospitalized.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday defended the financing by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) of the upgrade of the hitherto unused multi-storeyed building on Camp Street, saying that the National Insurance Scheme – the current owner – cannot be saddled with the cost of customising that edifice for occupancy.

A 21-year-old man was on Tuesday sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for the 2008 murder of a 79-year-old Wakenaam, Essequibo Island woman.

The National Library has invited inmates at four prisons it serves to participate in its Annual Essay and Short Story Competition this year.

Police said yesterday that the 56-year-old woman who was found dead at a Waiakabra shop, Linden/Soesdyke Highway early Monday morning died as a result of hypertension.

An investigation has been launched into an incident in which several young men of the remote Region One community of Yarakita were made to strip by police ranks who were investigating a robbery last Friday.

The woman who was driving one of the cars in  Sunday night’s two-car smash-up at Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice, that claimed the life of 23-year-old Raymond Madray, was discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday while four others remain hospitalized.

Seven projects were recently commissioned in Berbice and the Citizen Security Programme will get a further boost when  Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee  commissions  six more in Rose Hall Town, Corentyne and Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam.

Pizza Boys on Tuesday had a grand opening at the  Guyoil Food Court, Diamond, East Bank Demerara with the launching of their new, soft, thin crust pizza baked by an experienced chef out of Trinidad and Tobago.

Russian Ambassador to Guyana, Nikolay D Smirnov will be making a feature presentation on Russian economics and politics at the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) business luncheon today at the Regency Suites.

UNAIDS Caribbean Director, Dr. Ernest Massiah has said in a message on the occasion of International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) today that in the Caribbean “we have developed as a people,” but  “there are still phobias that we must address (and) homophobia is one of them.”

(Trinidad Express) Batting legend Brian Lara has predicted a tough England series for West Indies and says veteran left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul needs to bat higher in the team in order to strengthen an otherwise inexperienced line-up.

A 17-year-old school boy was this afternoon stabbed to death at a lessons place in Campbellville following an argument over “name brand”.