Guyana News

Chairman of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) David Granger was yesterday unanimously elected as Leader of the Opposition and stated that he is immediately changing the status quo with regard to the location of that constitutional office.

A Queens, New York man murdered his estranged wife in front of her terrified young daughter — and was held after cops tracked his bloody trail for three blocks, law-enforcement sources said yesterday, according to the New York Post.

Guyanese social history icon and culture enthusiast Godfrey Chin passed away at his Lot 233 David Street residence some time between Saturday and yesterday.

Backed by the Parent Teacher’s Association (PTA), several dozen residents of Port Kaituma yesterday morning protested the “deplorable” conditions the community primary school and surrounding roads.

Head of the Privatization Unit Winston Brassington says ending the contract with Fip Motilall’s Synergy Holdings Inc over its failure to meet deadlines to complete the Amaila Hydro Project road had nothing to do with political expediency, while insisting that monies paid to the company are below the value of the work completed.

Veteran politician Moses Nagamootoo said he willingly put aside his interest in becoming Speaker because the principle was greater than the personality.

There will be more work for the 10th Parliament as “two powerful agendas” take centre stage with great expectations, new Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman, said.

Although still upset over the opposition parties’ decision to elect their own nominee for Speaker of the National Assembly, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds has said the PPP/C administration would press ahead with its agenda.

A 29-year-old farmer of 1806 Grant Crabwood Creek, Corentyne is nursing pellet wounds he sustained while in the backdam around 8.45 am yesterday.

Another road accident at Amelia’s Ward highway has left a resident of Linden in a serious condition at the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC).

A number of measures to bring about vast improvements in the payment of taxes by various categories of taxpayers, including the self-employed, has brought an increase in the level of compliance, Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur has said.

Residents of the community of Aishalton in Region Nine have expressed concern over the recent reinstatement of a high ranking village leader who had been at the centre of allegations of sexual abuse and have called for the matter to be investigated by the authorities.

Three men accused of robbing a Bel Air, West Coast Berbice family at gunpoint last Tuesday have been denied their pre-trial freedom by Magistrate Roby Benn.

Africanised bees have been attacking students of the Central High School and school officials are concerned that all that has been done so far is spraying of the area.

Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud, yesterday outlined several changes that will be implemented in the sector during a meeting with stakeholders as the newly-established ministry moves to devise a strategic plan for the sector.

The police are yet to apprehend the man suspected to have information about the murder of 40-year-old Afrozie ‘Lizzie’ Ali of Lot 56 Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo, whose nude body was discovered at a cemetery in Zeelugt on Sunday.

A man and a woman who both admitted having an unlicensed gun in their possession were yesterday sentenced to three years imprisonment each when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A labourer accused of a $600,000 gold chain robbery was yesterday remanded to prison after appearing before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh on Sunday joined scores of well-wishers and members of the Salvation Army to welcome newly appointed divisional leaders and reaffirm government’s commitment to its programmes.

Ten first-time entrants have made the cut and will be among the 18 singers seeking to take home the $1.5 million first prize and the title of Carib Soca Monarch.