Guyana News

Five men who were allegedly involved in high seas piracy were yesterday remanded to prison when they appeared before Magistrate Krishndat Persaud at the Springlands Court.

Armed bandits on Wednesday night attacked the Western Union outlet at Church Street, escaping with $10 million in cash, but police later recovered a major portion of the money and arrested seven people, including an employee fingered as the mastermind.

Christmas, to the average child, is a time of excitement spent with family when they receive presents; except when they unfortunately have no family and have difficulty lowering their expectations,

Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur, and Managing Director of BK International, Brian Tiwarie, yesterday continued to trade barbs over the delay in the granting of concessions for the group of companies and the tardiness of the processing of clearance documents.

Romeo Jones, 24, an MMC security guard who was charged with killing accused battery thief Kwesi D’Andrade on January 31 last year was committed to stand trial in the High Court after a prima facie was made out against him for the charge of manslaughter.

A 51-year-old man appeared yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court  charged with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking  after he allegedly tried to mail two boxes to Canada that were  subsequently found to contain icing sugar with  cocaine.

A 57-year-old man is now dead after being involved in an accident at Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara, and his family are suspicious concerning the circumstances.

Vice-Chairman of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine said that the party has completed the verification of Statements of Poll and is now working on analyzing the findings of the verification process.

Works to upgrade the stellings meant to harbour the two just-arrived China-built ferries on the Essequibo River will be completed by year end, according to contractor Brian Tiwarie of B.K

The Guyana Police Force says that approval has been given for the Youth Coalition for Transformation, the youth arm of APNU,  to hold a march around the streets of Georgetown today, Friday December 23, 2011, commencing at 1530h.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) will be introducing a new Motor Vehicle Licences (MVLs) system from January 1 where vehicle owners can purchase licences from the GRA office nearest their location, among other features.

The company operating a large gold mine at Marudi Mountain in the Rupununi has signed a contract for further drilling to be done next year.

The Bollywood Divas Mega Concert has been postponed for the fourth time, owing to the bad weather and the artistes’ hesitance about travel to Guyana after reports of potential post-election disturbances, according to organizer Chandini Ramnarain.

The body of a man that was discovered in a canal at Prospect, on the East Bank of Demerara still remains unidentified at the Lykens Funeral Parlour.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved US$360,000 (equivalent to $72,000,000) to aid in the preparation of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for the Georgetown- Lethem Road.

The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) has deployed its pontoons with excavators to the Windsor Forest sluice to undertake dredging of the outfall channel to maximize its drainage capacity, in light of the build-up of water in the backlands and residential area in Windsor Forest.

The Housing Ministry on Monday presented allocation letters and lot numbers to 89 families of Plantation Balthyock, after a $46M investment to regularise what was once a squatting area at Blairmont Number One Settlement.

UG’s Centre for Communication Studies (CCS) launched the Centre for Communications Studies Advisory Board which will operate in conjunction with Ohio University’s (OU) Higher Education for Development (HED) Programme and the American Council for Education (ACE).

Mings Products and Services Limited presented five fully-loaded Dell laptop computers to the top five students at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA).

Police on Wednesday discovered and destroyed eight fields of marijuana plants during drug eradication operations at two locations in the Berbice River, but an arrest is yet to be made.