Guyana News

A teenager arraigned on two counts of armed robbery and a larceny charge was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A 34-year-old woman accused of stealing electricity was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $20,000 when she appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The NDC office at No. 54 Village, Corentyne, Berbice was on Wednesday night broken into and two security guards attacked by armed bandits, who carted off $50,000.

At about 03:45hrs yesterday, ranks of a mobile police patrol stopped and searched motor car PNN 3252, along Annandale Public Road, ECD, during which an unlicensed .38 special revolver

Two hundred and ten of the 229 Caribbean Airlines passengers who were forced to make the JFK International Airport their home since Monday finally arrived in Guyana yesterday morning with some of them facing more woes as all their luggage was not on the plane.

Mark Mc Watt was last evening named winner of both the Guyana Prize 2010 Poetry category and the Caribbean Award 2010 Poetry category when the Guyana Prize for Literature Awards Ceremony was hosted at the Pegasus Hotel.

  A police constable is now under close arrest after he struck and killed an elderly woman in an accident in the city on Wednesday.

  The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) today announced that it has taken the decision to decommission all National Identification Cards issued before October 2009.

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) today said that it discovered in excess of 3000 used condoms which caused a massive blockage at the corner of Sixth and Light streets Alberttown yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke has two previous convictions in the United States, the Justice Department revealed yesterday in a document related to his guilty plea on racketeering and conspiracy charges.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados Football Association’s (BFA) general secretary David Hinds and long-serving referee Mark “Bob” Forde are now in The Bahamas, where they were scheduled to appear before FIFA’s Ethics Committee’s investigating team yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) Police have made a breakthrough in the August 2 double murder at Salters in St George.

Two hundred and ten of the 229 Caribbean Airlines passengers who were forced to make the JFK International Airport their home since Monday finally arrived in Guyana this morning with some of them facing more woes as all their luggage was not on the plane.

(Trinidad Express) Higher international prices of agricultural commodities are starting to affect local food prices.

(Trinidad Express) The country yesterday recorded its second murder since a State of Emergency was declared on August 21 and curfew restrictions imposed in six areas deemed as crime hotspots.

(Trinidad Express) Security for Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Attorney General Anand Ramlogan has been placed on high alert after police raided an apartment at the exclusive multimillion-dollar One Woodbrook Place and found images of both officials.

 (Antigua Observer) St. John’s Antigua- Thirty-seven-year-old Sherwin Carty, also known as “Baah Bastini” of Guyana, appeared in court yesterday for the first time since police cast an island-wide dragnet for him in connection with an August 18 kidnapping in Ottos.

(Trinidad Express) A reputed gang leader’s run from the law came to an end at a luxurious haven on Tuesday night.

Up to yesterday, close to 250 Caribbean Airlines (CAL) outbound passengers had been stranded here for three days after repeated flight delays.

Chinese company Haier Electrical Appliances Limited has won the bid to supply 27,000 netbooks for the government’s One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project, Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh announced yesterday.