Guyana News

The victims of the Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara accident are said to be recovering slowly with Marvin Wray now no longer dependent on a life support machine.

In downtown Atlanta, a casually dressed young woman with an impeccable hairstyle sits in an office chair filling out a form, the first step that would eventually see her transformed for the world of work.

Spending by the Agriculture Ministry of money voted for the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) has again been criticized by the Office of the Auditor General and a call made again for this to end.

Raul Kissoon, witness for the plaintiff, in the libel case between former president Bharrat Jagdeo and Kaieteur News columnist Frederick Kissoon, yesterday failed to make his appearance, which caused the plaintiff to pay $20,000 each in legal fees for a wasted day to the two defence attorneys.

Michael Whyte of Lot 77 Triumph Village East Coast Demerara was yesterday sentenced to three months imprisonment for unlawfully smuggling 60 packs of Bristol cigarettes into the Camp Street prison when he appeared before Magistrate Priya Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates Court.

Guyana Power and Light (GPL) said that on Sunday March 4 it experienced two total generation system shutdowns in Demerara around 00:10 hrs when a Wartsila unit at Garden of Eden experienced an electrical fault and 14:30 hrs as a result of a burnt jumper on one of the main feeders at Sophia.

Power to West Demerara is expected to dramatically improve in the coming months with the building of a series of new substations and high powered transmission cables to feed power from Kingston by way of submarine cable across the Demerara River.

Executive members of the Guyana Women’s Miners Association will visit Itabali backdam in Region Seven on Friday to meet female miners in the area in an effort to sensitise them about their rights and to listen to issues they may have.

The Guyana Energy Agency, on January 13, through Special Prosecutor, Attorney-at-Law, Gino Persaud, secured a conviction against Delon Prashad at the Charity Magistrate’s Court in a ruling handed down by Magistrate Leron Daly.

A 27-year-old horse cart operator was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to unlawfully wounding his reputed wife, and three months for unlawfully assaulting her when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates Court before Magistrate Priya Beharry.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) are reporting that six persons including a 13-year-old girl were killed in Denham Town in West Kingston this afternoon during what they say was an intense gun-battle between themselves and gunmen.

Family members of accused Ponzi scheme mastermind R. Allen Stanford gathered at Houston’s federal courthouse today, expressing belief in his innocence as a jury deliberated fraud allegations presented in a six-week trial, the Houston Chronicle reported.

(Barbados Nation) Former Opposition Leader Mia Mottley wants Government to set up urgently a company to take whatever assets CLICO has left and pay the poor and sick who have pumped millions into the troubled insurance company.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States should lead an international effort to protect key population centres in Syria through air strikes on President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, U.S.

GPL yesterday experienced two total generation system shutdowns in Demerara. A release from the corporation today said that the first occurred at 0:10 hrs when a Wartsila unit at Garden of Eden (GOE) experienced an electrical fault, and at 14:30 hrs as a result of a burnt jumper on one of the main feeders at Sophia.

GAWU President Komal Chand has warned that some persons and groups are using the name of the late former President Cheddi Jagan in their bid to undermine the working class.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 0715h today on Lombard Street, Georgetown, and which resulted in  the death of Savitree Chandra, 30 years of Covent Garden, EBD.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government and opposition blamed each other today for a violent melee at a campaign stop by presidential candidate Henrique Capriles in which several people were injured by bullets.

(Jamaica Observer) West Indies batsman Runako Morton died in a car crash on the Solomon Hochoy Highway in Trinidad last night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police patrols in the Diego Martin area have been intensified because of a resurgence of gang warfare in the area.