Guyana News

A collision between a bicycle and a motorcycle on Tuesday evening at Diamond Housing Scheme Access road, East Bank Demerara left one man dead and the other injured.

Minister of Education Shaik Baksh commissioned a modern $8M annex to the Martindale Primary School in Region Two last Thursday, in keeping with a pledge to boost access to education in the community.

Quick response by police led to the arrest of the driver of the getaway car that was used in an armed robbery at Goed Intent, West Bank Demerara during which over $200, 000 was taken and a woman beaten.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry granted a driver $20,000 bail and ordered him to keep the peace when he appeared in court to answer to the charges of exhibiting threatening behaviour toward the mother of his children.

A father who pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm to his nine-year-old daughter while he was disciplining  her was yesterday placed on $30,000 bail at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court pending a probation report.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday remanded a 31-year-old labourer charged with sticking-up and robbing two persons of cash and items amounting to over $1M.

Acting Prime Minister of Dominica, Ambrose George has warned that the region is rapidly mortgaging its food sovereignty while failing to adequately follow-up  on such schemes like the Jagdeo Initiative on Agriculture.

A team of Local Government Ministry officials presented two All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) to two Region Nine communities and outlined plans for further development, during a recent four-day outreach.

APNU Presidential Candidate, Brigadier (ret) David Granger says he will make the Cuyuni-Mazaruni safe and will ensure that Bartica becomes a town.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry ordered a security officer to keep the peace and granted him bail when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court charged with displaying abusive behaviour.

The Institute of Distance and Continuing Education (IDCE) recently opened a training centre at Charity, Region Two to augment the education of adults and students who did poorly at the CSEC exams.

The Guyana Red Cross Society (GRCS) has partnered with CIDA, the Civil Defence Commission and Ministry of Local Government to train 15 communities to manage disaster risks, through its Caribbean Community Resilience to Disaster Risk Project.

SEAL BEACH, Calif.,  (Reuters) – A gunman opened fire  at a busy hair salon in the Southern California coastal town of  Seal Beach today, killing eight people and critically  wounding another, police said.

(Jamaica Observer) Jailed Jamaican dancehall deejay Vybz Kartel may face additional murder charges, a highly-placed police source has told the Observer.

The victim of a fatal accident in the Diamond Housing Scheme last night has been identified as Sarwan Kanhai, 52, of Section `B’, Diamond Housing Scheme.

The police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 1935h last night at Goed Intent, WBD, during which businessman Rohan Bisnauth, 53 years, was attacked and robbed of $220,000.

Sporadic outages of BlackBerry messaging and email service today spread to Jamaica.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A three-day disruption to  BlackBerry services spread to North America today,  frustrating millions of users of the Research In Motion   devices just two days before rival Apple’s new iPhone  4S goes on sale.

LONDON, (Reuters) – An undercover reporter from the  News of the World, the British newspaper at the heart of a  phone-hacking scandal which has embroiled Rupert Murdoch’s News  Corp, denied today he used the practice to break a story  about cricket match-fixing.

(Jamaica Observer) Extradition requests from the American Government for five Jamaicans, among them three prominent faces, are expected to be delivered to local authorities today, a highly placed US Government official has told the Observer.