Guyana News

(Trinidad Express) A 25-year-old Laventille man, who police believed to be on the run from his enemies, was gunned down at his aunt’s home in Sangre Grande on Sunday night.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The price tag for every holiday is SRD 50 million, but if the authorities decide to cut back on the number of national holidays, bringing the total from 15 to five, the country would be able to save SRD half a billion a year.

(Trinidad Express) Hindu Credit Union liquidator Ramdath D Rampersad yesterday testified he was physically attacked by former HCU president Harry Harnarine in the corridor of the High Court during a break in a legal matter involving the two.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar will be leaving today on official business to Belize, New York and Barbados, a release from the Office of the Prime Minister said yesterday.

Women’s rights activists will be picketing to raise awareness of the lack of safe and affordable abortion in Guyana today at 12:30pm, in front of the Ministry of Health on Brickdam Avenue.

(Trinidad Express) Caribbean Airlines could soon be flying directly into Panama.

(Trinidad Express) A total of TT$78 million in cash was withdrawn from the Hindu Credit Union (HCU) even as its members were unable to access their deposits, Queen’s Counsel Edwin Glasgow said yesterday.

A 56-year-old mother of six was yesterday morning found dead at a shop located at Waiakabra, Linden/Soesdyke Highway and the police suspect that she was raped and murdered.

Another security guard was found murdered yesterday, this time at Corentyne, Berbice, and two persons are in custody assisting the police with investigations.

The lifeless body of former Human Resources Manager of the Georgetown Public Hospital and Director at the Guyana and Trinidad Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Lionel Bert Whyte was found with stab wounds last evening.

A sixteen-year-old male was last night admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital with a single gunshot wound to his head.

Farmers along the Mahaica and Mahaicony creeks yesterday agonized over flood losses and they argued that it had been caused by the authorities releasing water via the Maduni sluice, a charged strongly denied by Minister of Agriculture Dr Leslie Ramsammy.

A two-car smash-up on the Cotton Tree Public Road, West Coast Berbice on Sunday night has left one man dead and six others injured.

A repeat offender in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court found himself before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton again yesterday and was remanded on two indictable charges of robbery under arms.

Kaleen Shaw was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on an attempted murder charge.

Four men yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magis-trates’ Court before Magis-trate Hazel Octive-Hamilton on separate charges involving cannabis at Mahdia.

Dellon Johnson was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on a charge of robbery under arms allegedly committed at Potaro.

Members of the St Rose’s High School alumni yesterday donated over US$15,000 in computers, printers, television sets, backpacks and DVD players among other items to the school’s computer room.

The African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) hopes that celebrated artist and sculptor, Phillip Moore, who died on Sunday, will receive special honours on Guyana’s Independence Anniversary.

The Texila American University is embarking on a new nursing programme here come September and its student population is expected to expand from 75 to 200 by the end of the year.