Guyana News

Three men who allegedly attempted to rob a Berbice businessman of $600,000 were yesterday placed before the acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry to answer to the charge of attempted robbery under arms.

The police say they are probing a fatal accident that occurred at about 0700h.

The police say they are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 1930h.

Police say that at about 1915h. last night vendor Nazeema Amoolayan, 35 years, and her reputed husband Oliver Permaul, 30 years, were in the verandah of their home at Tain, Corentyne, when five men, one of whom was armed with a shotgun and the others with cutlasses, entered the premises and held them up.

Former minister of information in the PPP/C administration Moses Nagamootoo this afternoon announced that he has resigned from the Central Committee and as a member of the PPP with immediate effect.

  Ryan Kissoon, called “Dhal Belly,” is being sought in connection with the murder of elderly Robb Street, Lacytown pharmacist Harold Rachpaul.

The Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) seized 30 kilogrammes of cocaine in three buckets on Saturday night in an operation that saw the exchange of gunfire with drug traffickers, who then managed to escape in a boat at the Number 73 beach.

CN Sharma has stepped down as the presidential candidate for the Justice For All Party (JFAP) and has now declared his support for A Partnership for National Unity (APNU).

(Trinidad Express) Outgoing Roman Catholic Archbishop Edward Gilbert yesterday warned of further division among citizens in the face of growing cries of racism and discrimination by politicians.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro  denounced NATO today for its role in the overthrow of  Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, saying the “brutal military  alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of  repression the history of humanity has known.”

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – At a press conference yesterday, President Desi Bouterse expressed anger at the Association of Indigenous Village Heads (VIDS) and its representative Carlo Lewis.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Yesterday afternoon and evening, the situation at Maripaston got completely out of hand.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday vowed to continue his “carrion crow” attack against sections of the media while presidential candidate of the party Donald Ramotar says he plans to work closely with the labour movement if elected.

A Mabura, Upper Demerara man is believed to have been murdered on the interior location’s public road sometime during the early morning hours of yesterday.

By Shaun Michael Samaroo in Toronto Noting that he “still does not know why my wife was killed in Guyana”, Bob Persaud, brother-in-law of slain government Minister Sash Sawh, made an impassioned plea for a change in government as he    declared his support for the Alliance For Change in Canada on Friday.

The body of a Linden vendor was pulled out of the Demerara River yesterday after he drowned.

Since November 2006, there have been at least seven discoveries of grenades outside of state security agencies but police and some security experts believe that the presence of these explosive devices in the public domain is not a cause for concern.

Representatives of APNU and the AFC on Friday said they favour a ‘closed’ list system to select their representatives for the National Assembly so that the electorate would know for whom they are voting.

Not a day passes that Nadira and Nandkissoon do not think about their son, Constable Vickram Singh who was gunned down under “questionable circumstances” while manning the entrance to the joint services scheme on July 2, 2010.

Residents of the Good Samaritan home in Berbice received 13 Care Packages compliments of New Amsterdamers International Inc (NAII) last Saturday.