Guyana News

An Enmore businessman yesterday lost in excess of $3 million to an armed bandit who confronted his employee and snatched the bag outside the Princess Hotel, Providence.

Although some City Council workers did not get salaries for December, the staff members of the Treasurer’s Department were paid in full and were also granted incentives—a disclosure that yesterday prompted calls for an investigation and the suspension of City Treasurer Andrew Meredith.

Electrical appliances belonging to home owners were damaged during a power surge at the Reliance Settlement, East Canje on Boxing Day.

Burglars broke and entered two Charlotte Street businesses yesterday morning and stole articles and cash estimated to be over $1.5M in total.

Still in the festive season, Georgetown will come alive on Saturday night as persons usher in 2012 at various New Year’s Eve events planned by promoters seeking to capitalize on the last big event of 2011.

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud yesterday said that he is still awaiting a directive from acting Police Commissioner Leroy Brummell on the sexual abuse probe against Top Cop Henry Greene.

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud yesterday revealed that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised that no charges be instituted against the man who was allegedly caught holding a ballot box at the Camptown Community Centre on elections day.

A fishing crew from the No 66 Fisheries, Corentyne was attacked and robbed of over $2M in fish, an engine and other items around 9 pm on Christmas Day and left stranded at Nickerie, Suriname.

Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy has issued a stern warning to Mahaicony Rice Limited (MRL), saying that he will not tolerate the company failing to pay rice farmers promptly.

A young East Coast Demerara woman doused herself in kerosene yesterday then set herself afire after an argument with her boyfriend.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton remanded five persons who appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ court charged with assault and making use of threatening language to each other.

Magistrate Hazel Octave Hamilton placed an occupant of the Night Shelter on a six-month bond to keep the peace after he threatened to kill a female orderly at the facility.

Although the Hope Canal project is just over 10 per cent complete, new Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy says he is optimistic that the project will be finished by its 2013 deadline, even as he promised to address the concerns of residents and farmers located in the vicinity of the worksite.

Outgoing Chairman of the Caricom Conference of Heads of Government (HoGs) Dr Denzil Douglas said the people of the region should be proud of the community’s leadership on tackling Non Communicable Diseases and to ensure the community’s livelihood.

Teddies Diapers presented hampers to 20 newborn Christmas babies as it continued a decade-long tradition on Christmas Day at hospitals in Georgetown and Berbice.

The Commonwealth Observer Group in its final report on the monitoring of elections in Guyana on November 28, 2011 said that State-owned media gave the PPP/C Government coverage over Opposition parties on a scale of at least 8:1, not including a large amount of Government news of direct benefit to the ruling party.

Legal practitioners in Berbice, concerned at inordinate delays, in the passing of land titles at the Land Registry, are calling for an enquiry into its operations.

The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC) says growth in private sector credit is expected to be moderate as a result of the new parliamentary dispensation which it said may lead to uncertainty about government’s policy agenda.

The family devastated by a fire on Christmas Eve day that claimed the lives of two people next door on Public Road Kitty is beginning to pick up the pieces even as investigations continue to determine its cause.

A suspect has been arrested for the murder of miner Oscar De Roche, who was shot and killed during an argument at Enachu, Cuyuni, North West District last Friday.