Guyana News

Police Commissioner Henry Greene yesterday declined comment on an abuse complaint filed against him by a woman at the Brickdam Police Station.

The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised police to charge Office of the President (OP) Press Officer Kwame McCoy for allegedly gun-butting a man last month.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport has decided to scrap a fund-raising drive by its social committee for a Christmas party, after concerns were raised about letters soliciting donations sent to contractors used by the ministry.

Alliance For Change (AFC) executive member Khemraj Ramjattan says that his party is supportive of the call by APNU’s David Granger to have a tripartite budget committee established and called it a wonderful idea which would enhance transparency.

The Youth Coalition for Transformation (YCT), a group of young activists affiliated to A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), said that it had nothing to do with a list of businesses slated for boycott as reported in an article published in Sunday’s edition of the Guyana Times.

UNICEF Representative Dr Suleiman Braimoh yesterday presented a $3M cheque to the Guyana Legal Aid Clinic to be used to provide services specifically for children.

Santa Rosa, North West District villagers say that many of them still don’t have a full understanding of the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), which they will need to make a fully-informed decision on whether they should opt-in.

Photos by Anjuli Persaud In an initiative aimed at helping to preserve and expand Guyana’s cultural heritage, the Moray House Trust was last evening officially launched in memory of late Stabroek News Editor-in-Chief David de Caires.

The Guyana Elections Com-mission’s Media Monitoring Unit (MMU) found that “strong editorial control” was abandoned in the broadcast media in the month leading up to the November 28 polls, which included the violation of the media code by the airing of campaign material the day before the elections.

Police Corporal Sherwin Smith who is charged with the September 15 murder of Counsellor Ralph Turpin reappeared on Monday in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court for the commencement of the preliminary inquiry (PI).

A man was yesterday placed before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer  charges of simple larceny and fraudulent conversion.

Ramdeo Kumar was on Monday placed on $250,000 bail after he appeared before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer the charge of causing death by dangerous driving and two other counts.

More than 500 persons yesterday graduated from the Board of Industrial Training’s National Training Project for Youth Empowerment (NTPYE) and Single Parents, at a ceremony at the National Cultural Centre.

The residents of Bel Voir Court, Georgetown have been complaining that their garbage has not been collected for over two weeks, causing an unhealthy backup of their rubbish and they would now have to pay private contractor Cevons Waste Management $400 per barrel for disposal services.

(Trinidad Express) Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) is working towards self-sufficiency without a fuel subsidy by the end of next year.

Charitable organization ‘Feed a Child for the Holidays’ last Saturday  began its Christmas cheer giving with donations to the St.

The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) in a press release yesterday said that the deadline for posting international mail for

An Agricola man who was charged with robbery with aggravation was placed on $75,000 bail yesterday when he appeared at the Georgetown Magis-trates’ Court.

At about 2130h on Monday night, the police say that ranks searched a man at Takaka Landing, Cuyuni River, in whose possession was found an unlicensed .

REDjet, the Caribbean’s low fares airline, has   welcomed the Caribbean Airlines  Chairman’s announcement that CAL will be launching a ‘low cost service’, contending that this shows how REDjet’s low fares and number one customer service is leading the way for consumers.