Guyana News

A Charlestown man facing charges of assault and using abusive language to the mother of his three children appeared before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Recognising that it is a public health issue, the Ministry of Health said it will now take a lead role in addressing intimate partner violence (IPV) and violence on the whole.

(BVI Platinum News) – Police are conducting investigations after the body of a male Guyanese native was discovered on Thursday morning, under a guinep tree on a vacant property alongside Fine Foods Supermarket on the eastern end of Tortola.

Executive Director and Chief Distiller at Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL), George Leslie Robinson, 63, has died.

Police are yet to receive a lead that could result in the arrest of a suspect in the murder of Jahave Browne who was found with a bullet wound to the chest at Bonehead, Omai on September 26.

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

  Satrohan Mannaru, 21, of Mibicuri South, Black Bush Polder, was today charged with the murder of Indranie ‘Cynthia’ Basdeo, 14, who was stabbed to death at a school playground last Friday.

Channel 6 was back in operation just after lunch today after broadcaster CN Sharma received an official letter from President Bharrat Jagdeo saying that the suspension has been lifted until December 1.

Executive Director and Chief Distiller at Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL), George Leslie Robinson, 63, has died.

HARARE, (Reuters) – The head of the worldwide  Anglican Church met Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe today  to hand him a dossier of abuses against the church and its  priests in Zimbabwe and demand an end to a campaign of  persecution.

(BBC) Renowned Indian singer Jagjit Singh has died in Mumbai (Bombay), aged 70.

The Guyana Press Association today condemned attacks by President Bharrat Jagdeo and his advisor, Gail Teixeira on the media at yesterday’s rally by the PPP in Kitty.

(BVI Platinum News) – Police are conducting investigations after the body of a male Guyanese native was discovered on Thursday morning, under a guinep tree on a vacant property alongside Fine Foods Supermarket on the eastern end of Tortola.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police and members of the Customs and Excise Division have targeted local agents involved in the transportation of diesel and contractors who own heavy machinery as purportedly being at the centre of a high-level probe involving a billion-dollar diesel scam.

(Trinidad Express) A 24-year-old Guyanese woman was raped by a lone intruder who forced his way into her Cunupia home during the early hours of yesterday morning.

Demerara Bank Limited has opened a branch at Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara as of today.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has again expressed concern about what he describes as the formidable level of corruption in the country’s legal system.

The PPP assailed the opposition and “vulture” media in its second major rally held in Kitty yesterday with speakers urging that youths be educated about the past and turn out to vote on November 28 – the date announced for national elections.

President Bharrat Jagdeo last evening announced that he will be temporarily lifting his four month suspension of CNS Channel 6 until December 1 saying that he does not want the opposition parties to have any excuse for the “resounding defeat” that awaits them at the November 28 polls.

The gunman who was captured on October 7 after an armed robbery on the Dutch Bottle Café yesterday died in hospital after being found unconscious in the police lockups.