Guyana News

(Trinidad Express) The Parliament will be transformed to an arena-type setting today as Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar takes on the role of a self-styled “matador” to attack Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley, dubbed the “raging bull”.

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka beat Australia by nine runs in a triangular series one day international at the Melbourne Cricket Ground today.

(Trinidad Express) The present Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the West Indies Players’ Association (WIPA) and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) will remain in force until the dispute between the two parties is decided in the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago at a future date.

(Trinidad Express) Moments before the guilty verdict yesterday, child killer Marlon King moved to stop the decision being delivered to offer evidence he thought might save him from the hangman’s noose.

Up to last night a search and rescue mission was ongoing for four men who are missing after the tug and barge they were on sank and ran aground respectively on Wednesday night in the vicinity of Iron Punt along the Waini Coast in Region One.

For the police force to restore its good image and public trust, corrupt ranks need to be rooted out, President Donald Ramotar said yesterday, while also urging more quality investigations to reduce failed prosecutions.

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) will be hosting a lottery for 360 mining lots, according to the Government Information Agency.

President Donald Ramotar yesterday refused to answer questions on the fate of Police Commissioner Henry Greene and his admission that he had sex with a woman who was the subject of a criminal investigation and who had gone to him for help.

The increase in serious crimes, especially murders in the interior regions, and reports of police corruption will be given special focus during the three-day Annual Police Officers’ Conference that opened yesterday, acting Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell said.

President Donald Ramotar yesterday chaired his first meeting of the National Stakeholders’ Forum where over 100 representatives of civil society took part in what has been described as a satisfying and fruitful engagement.

Seventeen-year-old Samuel Cornelius who is accused of murdering Anfernee Bowman on Monday was remanded to prison yesterday by Magistrate Sueanna Lovell  after he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Head of the EU Delegation to Guyana Ambassador Robert Kopecky yesterday pledged the support of his office to the mangrove restoration project, during a visit to several sites along the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) where the tropical shrub is being replanted.

Government has deployed a mobile pump and excavator to Mahaica to aid in the draining of farmlands and to carry out dam maintenance in response to the La Nina rains as efforts are made to save a 3,000 acre rice crop.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) says adverse weather conditions on Wednesday caused a number of network faults and power outages but its crews worked diligently to restore power to the affected areas.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday remanded a man to prison after he was accused of assaulting his pregnant, common law spouse.

Cabinet has given the green-light for a $1.299B contract for the installation of force mains, riser mains and the rehabilitation of sewer stations in Georgetown, under the Sanitation Improvement Programme, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon said on Wednesday.

The Youth Coalition for Transformation (YCT) has disassociated itself from a Guyana Times headline, “YCT distances itself from APNU,” saying it as an attempt to confuse the populace and “stir up political quarrel.”

A 14-year-old Charlestown Secondary School student has disappeared after running an errand for her mother, who fears someone has kidnapped her.

Lakeram Prashad, the driver who allegedly caused the death of call centre worker Rozena Razack last July, has had his driver’s licence suspended, police said yesterday.

A Lamaha Springs teen was yesterday placed on $600,000 bail after he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court facing six counts of breaking  and entering the homes of Lamaha Springs residents and stealing jewellery and household articles valued over $4M.