Guyana News

Magistrate Sueanna Lovell yesterday fined a man $4,000 on an assault charge and ordered that his wife pay $4,000 court costs after she pleaded for him to be given “a chance.”

Heads of several state agencies are appointed by state boards and not the president or cabinet, Dr Roger Luncheon testified yesterday.

A 40-year-old woman is nursing serious injuries after she was on Wednesday struck down by a speeding motor car while standing on the roadway at Annandale, East Coast Demerara.

A Partnership For National Unity (APNU) yesterday promised to repeal the recently passed Access to Information and Broadcast laws if elected to run the affairs of Guyana for the next five years.

A 40-year-old handyman who allegedly stole in excess of $1 million in items from another man was yesterday remanded to prison after he appeared before  Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A man who pleaded guilty to assaulting his wife along with three counts of threatening behaviour in the North West District was yesterday sentenced to 27 months imprisonment after he appeared before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A fire two months ago left Ramrati Kumarsingh and her family without their home and penniless, but they are slowly getting help to rebuild their lives.

Thirty-four doctors participated in an orientation session on Wednesday as they prepare for placement at various health care institutions countrywide, after having completed their one-year rotation requirement.

The High Commission of Canada will be closed to the public on Monday as it is Canada’s Thanksgiving Day.

Headmistress Beverley Daly and the staff of The Bishops’ High School were recognised for their sterling contribution to the general all-round development of its students at a petit déjeuner on Wednesday at the school, in the Oswald Parry Hall.

The incumbent PPP/C yesterday accused “opposition elements” of defacing the party’s elections posters and billboards, but the major opposition parties dismissed the accusations as “ludicrous” and “rubbish.”

(Trinidad Express) Law enforcement yesterday told the Cabinet that it wants more time.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) today urged the opposition parties against participating in the upcoming polls unless “minimum standards” to guarantee free expression and equal access to media are in place.

The police say they are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 2030h on Tuesday at Rose Hall, Corentyne, Berbice, during which businesswoman Samantha John, 31 years of Swamp Section, Rose Hall, was attacked and robbed by two men, one of whom was armed with a firearm.

The PPP today decried the defacing of a number of its billboards in Kitty yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A popular soca artiste has been questioned by senior officials of the Customs and Excise Division for his purported involvement in a well-organised diesel racket operation on the high seas.

Veteran Ghazal Jagjit Singh is recovering after a brain haemorrhage. According to Bolywoodlife.com

(Trinidad Express)  “Make no mistake about it; the threat of computer attacks in the Caribbean is real.

(Trinidad Express) Contractors are “padding” their payment claims to the tune of millions, Jearlean John, chairman of the Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago (UdeCOTT), claimed yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Two men who were found shot dead inside a car near Ortinola Estate, Maracas, St Joseph, were yesterday described by their relatives as shady characters.