Guyana News

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Energy Secretary Chris Huhne said today he was resigning after being told he would face criminal charges over allegations that his wife took the blame for a speeding offence that he had committed.

Three committees have been established by the government and opposition on security, governance and economic matters and government has also undertaken to facilitate a request by the Alliance For Change (AFC) and A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) to meet with and make presentations to the Tax Review Committee that President Donald Ramotar has established.

Two drainage and irrigation workers died in an accident on the Mahaicony Public Road  yesterday afternoon after a truck hit a cow and slammed into the pickup in which they were travelling.

Nezaam Ali, the Muslim scholar at the centre of the Turkeyen Masjid child abuse scandal, was yesterday charged with three counts of sexual activity with a child by abusing a position of trust, while police continued to investigate four other reports.

The husband of Sita Reddy, the woman who was found dead with her throat slashed in her home at Craig Village, East Bank Demerara on Wednesday, has been arrested after police investigators found inconsistencies in a statement he had given.

As water released from the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) continued to swamp Mahaicony Creek communities yesterday, farmers called for fair compensation and a permanent solution to prevent the recurring flooding.

The suspect in the murder of New Amsterdam fireman Delon Colins, who was recently nabbed in Suriname, was yesterday handed over to the Guyana Police Force, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said.

Residents of Black Bush Polder, East Berbice have suffered losses to rice and cash crops and while the floodwater has started to recede in most areas it has remained stagnant in sections of Johanna and Yakusari.

The newly installed regional authority at Linden has uncovered some 16 incomplete projects most of which have been paid for in full; some 14 of these projects fall under the purview of one officer.

Bandits on Tuesday escaped with gold and diamond jewellery along with home appliances and cash valued $2 million during an early morning burglary at the home of a Craig resident.

Five were recorded in January, representing an increase over the four that occurred during the same period last year.

More than a month after an 18-year-old mother of two died of injuries she sustained during a botched abortion, the Medical Council has launched an investigation into the matter.

The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) did not respond to two requests for its input on the teacher vacancy list for the 2012, according to Chief Education Officer Olato Sam.

Minister of Human Services Jennifer Webster told the Buxton family whose home was destroyed when a plum tree came crashing down on it on Sunday night that government stands ready to provide assistance.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton granted $10,000 bail to a Trinidad-based Guyanese man accused of using abusive language to his wife, when he yesterday appeared in court to answer to the charges.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton granted bail to a woman and two men who appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday to answer to the charge of unlawful wounding, assault and the use of abusive language, respectively.

Minister of Human Services and Social Security Jennifer Webster on Wednesday presented cheques of $20,000 each to the three spouses of the missing crew and cargo members of the Oliver L as the first step in a series of government aid that they would benefit from.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton granted $15,000 bail to a Laing Avenue woman accused of using abusive language to two of her neighbours, when she appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday to answer to the charges.

Twenty-five legal and non-legal professionals completed an Advanced Mediation Training Programme which concluded with a Certificate Award Ceremony at the Little Rock Hotel, New Amsterdam, Berbice, last Friday, the U.S.

A 42-year-old man who allegedly snatched a gold chain from a woman while she was in a minibus was on Wednesday remanded to prison after he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.