Guyana News

The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miner’s Association (GGDMA) has been waiting for over a year for talks with Police Commissioner Henry Greene on crime in interior mining areas—a situation that President Bharrat Jagdeo dubbed “unacceptable” during a meeting with miners yesterday.

Hundreds of people flocked the Lyken’s Funeral Home yesterday morning to bid farewell to the three Soesdyke children who were viciously slaughtered last week.

If elected, A Partnership For National Unity (APNU) says that it will revisit the deals between the government and bauxite companies Rusal and Bosai, since both companies have failed to deliver on promises made to Guyanese.

The Rights of the Child Commission (ROC) in collaboration with UNICEF yesterday launched an assessment report of a two-month study on birth registration in four regions in Guyana and President Jagdeo later signed a declaration.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) yesterday called for former New Building Society (NBS) senior staff Maurice Arjoon, Kent Vincent and Kissoon Baldeo to be paid all the benefits due to them that accrued during their interdiction according to the law, in view of the fact that they have been freed of all charges.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will review opposition proposals on its draft code of conduct for parties contesting the elections and may incorporate them if “workable” into the final document.

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Dr Steve Surujbally yesterday denounced recent attacks on the media, saying that they are  not conducive to the atmosphere for upcoming elections.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is expected to hold talks with the management of the National Communications Network (NCN) to review its offer of five minutes of free programming per week for parties contesting the elections on the state-owned radio and television.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is appealing to over 40,000 registrants to collect their national Identification Cards.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry sentenced a 26-year-old electrician to two weeks in prison, after he pleaded guilty to striking a woman across her face with a belt.

The two police officers who were flung from the motorcycle they were travelling on at the junction of Middle and Carmichael streets on Wednesday evening have been admitted to the Male Surgical Ward at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

After spending almost three weeks in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital, 10-year-old Sameer Samshuddin will soon be transferred to the open paediatric ward where his parents can have 24/7 access to him.

Residents of Linden who turned up yesterday for the Ministry of Housing’s one-stop-shop house lot distribution had mixed reactions to the criteria set for persons of various income brackets and economic standing as it relates allocation and the size of land.

Chicken is now being offered at $200 per lb for

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry remanded a clothes vendor accused of robbery with violence when he yesterday appeared before her in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says it is offering assistance and technical advice to Mahdia and is working assiduously to restore water supply to the community in the wake of Tuesday’s protest outside the company’s office.

Detective Corporal Rodwell Sarrabo testified when the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the matter of setting fire to the Supreme Court for which Colin Jones, Randy Mars, Jafar Simpson, Basil Morgan and Anthony Watson  stand accused, continued on Wednesday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A couple was the latest target of gun-toting bandits; attacked at a Sheriff Street Chinese restaurant on Wednesday and forced to drive to the seawall before being relived of cash and jewellery.

(Trinidad Express) Former PNM ministers have asserted that they are not racists, nor did they selectively favour people to receive scholarships during their tenure.

SIRTE, Libya,  (Reuters) – Disturbing images of a  blood-stained and shaken Muammar Gaddafi being dragged around by  angry fighters quickly circulated around the world after the  Libyan dictator’s dramatic death near his home town of Sirte.