Guyana News

The Director of Public Prose-cutions (DPP) has recommended that disciplinary charges be laid against the ten presidential guards who acted as enforcers during the destruction of a conveyor system at Guyana Sandport Inc in July.

Female enrolment both at the secondary and university levels has now far outstripped that of males in the Caribbean and Latin America, raising new concerns about male underachievement, according to the World Bank report on gender equality, released globally yesterday.

A man who pleaded guilty to driving a vehicle under the influence of alcohol and operating the vehicle without being the holder of a licence in the Rupununi was yesterday fined $32,500 after he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The decomposing remains of Sewnarine Deonarine who hacked the mother of his children to death last Tuesday was yesterday morning found in the bushes at Rasta Country, Laluni Creek, Linden/ Soesdyke Highway.

Justice for All Party leader, CN Sharma, said an attempt was made to burn down his television station business after an unknown person severed the fuel line of his jeep that was parked in front of the Robb Street premises.

Opposition coalition APNU has concerns about the absence of protocols on media access and campaigning financing in the Code of Conduct proposed by the Guyana Elections Commis-sion (Gecom) for parties contesting the upcoming polls.

PPP campaign spokesman Robert Persaud yesterday assured that the ruling would maintain a separation between its own funds and state resources in the elections period.

Regional airline REDjet yesterday announced the launch of its service between Guyana and Antigua starting on November 20.

A 42-year-old food vendor who pleaded not guilty to having in her possession three grammes of cocaine for the purposes of trafficking was yesterday remanded to prison after she appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A 37-year-old man who was charged with having in his possession a firearm and ammunition without licence in the hinterland was yesterday remanded to prison after he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Twenty-five-year-old Naomi Samuels of Santa Aratack Mission, Region Three beat nine other contestants to take the crown in the Amerindian Heritage Pageant 2011 hosted on Saturday night.

The owner of the boat in which the captain and a 15-year-old boy were set alight and later died from their injuries said he did not hire the alleged attacker nor did he hire the boy to go to sea.

Police on Sunday discovered a two-acre field of cultivated marijuana plants at St Cuthbert Mission Road, Soesdyke/Linden Highway.

Frandec Travel Service, a subsidiary of Frandec and Company Incorporated, yesterday introduced its Business Services Centre where persons can get assistance in the preparation of US visa application forms and passport forms, typing and printing of documents, photocopying, laminating, faxing, internet and more.

“Every time a pregnant woman comes to our clinic, every time everywhere no exception, she should have access to HIV testing and counselling and know her status,” Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy said as he launched this year’s National Week of Testing.

Republic  Bank (Guyana) Limited  on Wednesday  hosted  a special  award ceremony  at its Head Office, Promenade Court,  in honour of its employees’ children who completed the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA).

It has been more than a month since popular drugstore owner Harold Rachpaul’s brutal murder, and more than two weeks since his neighbour Anthony Ting-A-Kee was also killed, and the police have so far been unable to hold any suspects in either case.

Despite state propaganda, problems faced by farmers of the Parika back Dam, East Bank Essequibo and Corentyne, in Berbice, highlight the bleak picture of their existence, according to AFC presidential candidate Khemraj Ramjattan.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Four earthquakes struck  southern Guatemala today within 2 1/2 hours, shaking  buildings in the capital and killing three people.  

Police on Sunday conducted a drug eradication operation at St. Cuthbert Mission Road, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, during which a two-acre field of cultivated marijuana plants was found.