Guyana News

“If yuh go a crab dance, yuh gon get mud,” Pro-secutor Judith Gildharie-Mursalin told the jury in the Cyon Collier murder trial yesterday, saying that the accused is facing the consequences for the role he played in the robbery which resulted in the death of Chandrapaul Persaud.

(Trinidad Express) A 33-year-old La Horquetta man yesterday appeared before an Arima magistrate charged with murdering a La Horquetta mother, attempting to murder her daughter and pointing a weapon at her son.

MIRPUR, Bangladesh, CMC – Devendra Bishoo continued the impressive start to his international career, when he finished with career-best bowling, leading West Indies to a 229-run victory in the second Test against Bangladesh yesterday.

  A man who was wanted for questioning about the murder of Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris, the 72-year-old Robb Street, Georgetown resident who was shot and killed in her home, turned himself over to police and led them to the location of two rifles on Tuesday evening, police have said.

Guyana is now ranked at 117 on the United Nations Development Programme Human Development index; having moved up two points from last year, a report issued today said, and is one of the countries listed as having medium human development.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – In addition to traditional mining products such as gold, oil and bauxite, there is interest in other minerals to be found in Suriname such as manganese (for paint and hardening iron), iron and nickel.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The government is planning to establish a Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF).

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – “The way you are behaving is not good.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel test-fired a missile  from a military base today, two days after Prime Minister  Benjamin Netanyahu warned of the “direct and heavy threat” posed  by Iran’s nuclear programme.

(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Publishers and Broadcasters Association (TTPBA) said yesterday it did not condone the airing of a phone-recorded video of the Crime Watch TV programme of a 13-year-old girl being sexually assaulted.

(Trinidad Express) Six police officers of the Central Division who allegedly arrested and shocked three men with Taser guns in Chaguanas last year, appeared in court yesterday charged with misbehaviour in public office.

(Trinidad Express) Special arrangements were made yesterday at the Remand Section of the Golden Grove Prison in Arouca to house seven police officers who have been charged with the murders of three Moruga residents.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Spinner Davendra Bishoo completed  his maiden five-wicket haul as Bangladesh collapsed either side  of lunch on the fifth day of the second test to succumb to a  229-run defeat to the West Indies today.

LONDON, (Reuters) – WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange  should be extradited from Britain to Sweden to face questioning  over alleged sex crimes, London’s High Court ruled today,  rejecting his appeal against the move.

Three Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) workers, who entered the agency’s Quamina Street, Georgetown headquarters just before cameras were disabled and fuel markers were stolen last Saturday, have been arrested.

With less than a month before Guyanese go to the polls, a major tussle is in the making  between the incumbent PPP/C and a Moses Nagamootoo-endowed Alliance For Change (AFC) for political momentum in Region 6—with the latter convinced it will make significant inroads in the region.

The refusal of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic’s presidential candidate Donald Ramotar to participate in a presidential debate organized by Merundoi, has forced the organization to opt instead for a “town-hall” styled forum, for which it is again seeking participation from the four major groups contesting the elections.

John Blanchard, the father who allegedly knifed to death his children, made his second court appearance at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry to answer a third charge of murder.

More than 20 vendors who operated outside the Parika Market, on the East Bank of Essequibo, were yesterday pondering their next move after their stalls were dismantled by a Works Ministry demolition team late Monday afternoon.

Residents of the border community of Lethem yesterday managed to contain an early morning fire which gutted a section of the regional hospital in the Region 9 community.