Guyana News

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Cricket’s controversial decision  review system (DRS) will no longer be mandatory and its use will  be left to bilateral agreements between participating boards,  the International Cricket Council (ICC) said today.

(Reuters) – Cricket Australia (CA) has hit back at  allegations Australian players are involved in match-fixing,  saying the claims made by a sports agent were “baseless and  outlandish”.

Constructing the Amaila Falls hydropower plant at a cost of US$835 million will not reduce the cost consumers have to pay for electricity and may not be the answer to the country’s energy needs, the AFC’s economic advisor Dr Tarron Khemraj says.

A privately owned airstrip is being developed in the village of Yakishuru, in Region One, in order to protect gold and diamond miners travelling in and out of the region.

There is only one functioning computer system in the city’s treasury department, resulting in bottlenecks in tax collection.

One of the men captured last week by police in connection with the Piari Landing robbery, has been identified as the mastermind in a previous robbery that occurred in the same area a few weeks prior.

A 24-year-old woman is now in critical condition after she was struck off her bicycle by a pickup last evening on the East Bank highway.

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) Dr Steve Surujbally on Thursday briefed newly-accredited British High Commissioner to Guyana Andrew Ayre on preparations for the upcoming general elections.

Approximately one month after students and parents protested the shoddy condition of the Golden Grove Secondary School at least 80 per cent of renovation works have been completed.

The owner of the local cargo vessel, which was intercepted in St Lucian waters laden with drugs and weapons, has surrendered to police, who are still checking out “the story” he has given.

Satrohan Mannaru, 21, of Mibicuri South, Black Bush Polder, was yesterday charged over the stabbing to death of his ex-girlfriend Indranie ‘Cynthia’ Basdeo, 14, at a school playground.

CNS Channel 6 resumed operations just after noon yesterday on receipt of President Bharrat Jagdeo’s formal letter stating that the ban had been temporarily lifted until December 1, but the candlelight vigils in protest will continue.

A British national is in police custody after a spliff of ganja was found in his suitcase at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri yesterday afternoon.

A Critchlow Labour College student and an alleged accomplice who are accused of robbing another man at gunpoint of a quantity of gold valued in excess of $2 million  were yesterday remanded to prison after they appeared before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A post-mortem examination performed yesterday on the body of Foulis businessman Purushotam Nauth revealed the cause of death as gunshot injury.

A 29-year-old man who allegedly stole two cell phones valued a total of $215,000 from another man in a Main Street restaurant was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail after he appeared before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A 30-year-old man who allegedly assaulted his wife because she accused him of having an affair with another woman was yesterday placed on $20,000 bail after he appeared before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Kelvin Poonsammy, the gunman who invaded the Dutch Bottle Café last Friday, died as a result of perforation of the lungs and blunt trauma to the head, a post-mortem examination has found.

Two persons were yesterday discharged from hospital, while two remain in a critical condition, following Friday’s vehicular collision in the vicinity of Middlesex, Pomeroon and the subsequent hospitalization of the eight persons involved.

A 31-year-old man who is charged with assault causing actual bodily harm and threatening behaviour was yesterday placed on $20,000 bail and put on a bond to keep the peace until his trial is over by Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.