Guyana News

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton yesterday granted $300,000 bail to a 34-year-old father of three charged with driving a motor lorry in a dangerous manner that resulted in the death of Balwant Mangroo.

Two men yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer to the charges of felonious wounding and threatening language respectively.

APNU Leader David Granger has identified the lower than anticipated voter turnout and the PPP/C’s abuse of state resources during the campaign as the main reasons why his party did not secure the presidency at November’s elections.

A special security monitoring committee is being set up for the Ogle Airport to identify and neutralise possible threats.

Minister of Agriculture Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has announced that a consortium of local and international entrepreneurs will soon invest in a biofuel project that will take up more than 100,000 acres of land in the Canje Basin.

A 24-year-old minibus conductor of Linden will be spending more than two years behind bars after he was found guilty of trafficking in cannabis.

The Commissioner of Police and Police Divisional Commanders will be meeting with members of the public at their respective offices to address their issues and concerns, a press release from the Police Public Relations Office said yesterday.

Benita Fredericks, the 13-year-old Essequibo girl taken from her parents’ home last week, yesterday contacted her mother and disclosed that plans are being made for her to be taken to Venezuela with the man keeping her.

A Canadian group has donated an ultrasound machine with a handheld scanner and a laptop computer to store the data, to the Georgetown hospital on Monday.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is advising residents along the coast to take steps to ensure that they have safe water for domestic use.

The eroded Timehri main road has now been filled, after Minister of Transport Robeson Benn intervened and measures are being put in place

The Ministry of Health is urging the public to avoid contact with floodwater and to seek medical care for any injuries sustained or diarrhoeal-type reactions that are common in flood situations.

Junior students at the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) Mabaruma Sub-region recently presented a number of literacy and numeracy aids to the children’s ward at the Mabaruma hospital According to a Government Information Agency press release, the gift included a television set, DVD player,

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton granted an 18-year-old man $125,000 bail when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday charged with stealing a gold chain valued $400,000.

(Trinidad Express) Works Minister Jack Warner yesterday launched a death penalty campaign that will see his supporters in every part of the country collecting signatures for a petition calling for the enforcement of hanging.

(Trinidad Express) There was outrage in Cedros yesterday after cattle “posing a life and death threat”, were killed by soldiers with rifles as part of a Ministry of Agriculture plan to rid the peninsular of stray cattle.

(Trinidad Express) United States law enforcement is on the hunt for a violent fugitive believed to be hiding in Trinidad and Tobago.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Allen Stanford funneled $2 billion of investor money from his offshore bank to pay operating expenses at his other companies, including money-losing airlines and his cricket concerns, a former Stanford Financial Group accountant said today.

PORT SAID, Egypt, (Reuters) – Seventy-four people were killed and at least 1,000 injured on Wednesday when Egyptian soccer fans staged a pitch invasion in the city of Port Said, the deadliest incident since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak from power.

A woman was found dead in her Craig, East Bank Demerara home with her throat slit this afternoon, after a suspected robbery.