Guyana News

Attorney Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday presented the teen boy who was tortured while he was in police custody to Attorney General Anil Nandlall, in a bid to get the government to pay out damages that were awarded by the High Court.

A 15-year-old boy of Ketting, D’ Edward, West Bank Berbice was electrocuted after he touched a welding plant that a rice farmer was using while repairing his combine at Cotton Tree.

Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman yesterday ruled to defer three motions tabled by members of the opposition to amend the Standing Orders to reconfigure key committees.

Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh will present his sixth National Budget as Minister on Friday March 30, 2012 even as consultative talks between the Government and Opposition appear dead and buried.

The Home Affairs Ministry last evening said that the use of the Police Central Welfare Fund to facilitate the feeding of ranks during the elections was above board but it however distanced itself from the reported directive of former Top Cop Henry Greene that help should be solicited by commanders from businessmen.

Kalibur Security employee, Terry Mohan  was  granted bail in the sum of $75,000 by Magistrate Sueann Lovell yesterday after pleading not guilty to stealing articles and cash to the value of $3,714,000, property of businessman Fip Motilall.

A truck filled with 54 sugar workers turned over yesterday morning along the Tain Access Road, Corentyne and 43 of them were taken to the Port Mourant Hospital and  some

After pleading guilty to the murder of his common-law wife and expressing deep regret for his actions, a man was sentenced to a 10-year jail term on Tuesday.

A ten-year-old girl has been hospitalised after allegedly being abducted by a man who physically assaulted her and left her in an unconscious state in a clump of bushes in Sophia last Friday.

Contractors attached to Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) while laying pipes were shocked when they stumbled on the remains of a man while they were working in the vicinity of the Wisroc Water Treat-ment Plant last weekend.

Guyana will soon be holding public consultations on corporal punishment, capital punishment and the decriminalization of gay sex in keeping with the country’s commitment at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in 2010, according to Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon.

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo may have started to receive benefits entitled to him under the Former Presidents (Benefits and Other Facilities) Act, according to Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon.

A glitch at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) saw last Tuesday being the date stated for the opening of bids for the supply and delivery of antiretroviral drugs to the Ministry of Health when it should have been on April 10.

Joel Ali, the H. Nauth and Sons Construction Company clerk that claimed he was kidnapped and robbed of $4M in cash on Monday, staged the robbery, according to police.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the Neesa Gopaul case continued yesterday with Simone De Nobrega and Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Hugh Jessamy being further cross-examined.

Wendell Joseph who was accused yesterday of unlawfully assaulting his niece, causing her actual bodily harm was granted bail in the sum of $15,000 by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Devon Anderson who appeared yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on a charge of possession of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking was refused bail by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

A new administrative building is in the works for the

Minister of Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud lauded operations at the Mahdia Power and Light (MPL) plant and ordered that the board be properly constituted, at a meeting on Saturday during a visit to the Region Eight community.

On Sunday, Guyana will join in worldwide commemoration of the UN-declared International Day of Remembrance of the victims of slavery and transatlantic trade in captive Africans.