Guyana News

Seven overseas-based Guyanese medical specialists and surgeons attached to a New Jersey-based outreach organisation hosted a free clinic and conducted 39 surgeries during a week-long exercise at the West Demerara Regional Hospital.

The Police yesterday said that during the month of October, 2011, there were 14 reported incidents where taxi-drivers were attacked and robbed by a man armed with a handgun who entered their vehicles on the pretext of being a passenger.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday remanded an 18-year-old man to prison after he appeared before her to answer  two counts of robbery under arms allegedly committed at Linden.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee yesterday lashed out at former commissioner of police Winston Felix and APNU presidential candidate David Granger for their recent criticisms of the security sector and asked them to say what they did to transform the security sector while they were in public office.

A nine-year-old girl was hospitalised after she was severely burnt in a fire on Sunday morning, in which she and her family lost their home.

Small loggers with concessions along the UNAMCO trail are calling on the government to repair and maintain the eroded roadway, saying that its current state is stifling business and crippling their livelihoods.

The man who was struck down and killed while attempting to cross the road at De Willem, West Coast Demerara on Tuesday, has been identified by relatives as an employee of Guyana Power and Light Company’s Leonora Branch.

North-East La Penitence resident Merle Franklyn has been awaiting compensation from the Mayor and City Council after a tree fell on her home more than a year before a similar incident on Sunday claimed the life of a five year-old girl.

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Guianas and the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) on Wednesday inked a $3M agreement to sensitise miners and their communities about the effects of mining on the environment.

Moses Nagamootoo, former long-serving executive member of the PPP, on Wednesday accused Dr Cheddi ‘Joey’ Jagan II of “falsely” claiming that he was again backing the ruling party to promote the legacy of his late father, President Cheddi Jagan.

In the wake of three of its employees being charged with the theft of fuel markers, the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) yesterday said it had scored notable successes in the fight against fuel smuggling.

The relatives of Kester Sancho are still awaiting word from his employer, who they said has not put in an appearance since he fell 55 ft to his death from an unfinished rice mill in Mahaica.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry granted $30,000 bail to a pork knocker charged with unlawful wounding at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on Wednesday remanded a 37-year-old Wortmanville resident after he appeared before her to answer to two counts of break and enter and larceny.

The Police today said that during the month of October, 2011, there were 14 reported incidents where taxi-drivers were attacked and robbed by a man armed with a handgun who entered their vehicles on the pretext of being a passenger.

President Bharrat Jagdeo today granted approval for an 8 percent across-the-board increase to be paid to Government employees with effect from 1st January 2011, the Government Information Agency this afternoon said.

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(Jamaica Gleaner) Embattled dancehall entertainer, Vybz Kartel, and two members of his entourage, who have been jointly charged for the murder of Clive Williams, were again remanded when they appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court today.

Three men today appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to face the charge of murder committed on Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris on June 30 at her Robb Street home.

A Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) operation in Berbice today netted 40 kilogrammes (82 pounds) of cocaine and five suspects including a Canadian national have been held, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee said this morning.