Guyana News

Police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for a Lusignan, East Coast Demerara businessman in connection with the Block 20 Enmore/Haslington New Scheme multi-million dollar cocaine bust.

A $22.5M Magistrate’s court at Charity, Region Two was commissioned by President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday.

President Bharrat Jagdeo’s move to sidestep senior officers in favour of Commodore Gary Best to head the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) back in 2007 was viewed positively by the US Embassy in Georgetown, which expected that it would strengthen relations.

Cyril Potter College of Education top student Villon Parris recently sat down for an interview with Stabroek News and admitted that he is still stunned at his success, adding that he owes it all to God.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee yesterday met with the grieving families of the missing fishermen at No.64 Village Corentyne, Berbice, where he reiterated the administration’s commitment to ensuring that the men are found.

A $268M contract was inked on Wednesday under the Community Road Improvement Project (CRIP) which will see in Region Six the complete rehabilitation of 27 roads to double bituminous surface treatment or asphaltic concrete, the rehabilitation of four culverts and the reshaping, re-grading and realigning of road side drains.

Then US Ambassador to Guyana, David Robinson cabled Washington on the government’s termination of state advertising in Stabroek News in 2007 saying it was at best a public relations fiasco and at worst a misguided attack on press freedom.

The New Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) says that only a part of the $89M Parika pack house has been leased to an investor.

Four years after its launch, the local stock market was “handicapped” by low trading volume and regulatory problems, US Ambassador David Robinson told his bosses in Washington in 2007, saying that Guyanese preferred to lose their money in traditional investments, real estate or to leave altogether.

Minister of Finance, Dr Ashni Singh on Friday handed over a cheque valued at $5 million to the Salvation Army for its Drug Rehabilitation Programme.

Eid and the days to follow are opportunities to demonstrate the moral upliftment and spiritual evaluation gained through fasting by showing compassion, mercy and kindness towards the creation of Allah, President of the Central Islamic Organization of Guyana (CIOG), Fazeel Ferouz said in his Eid-ul-Fitr message. 

The Guyana Police Force’s (GPF), ‘B’ Division has organized a late night patrol programme aimed at intercepting persons who drive under the influence of alcohol.

A 21-year old Kwatata resident who was yesterday accused of stealing a horse was placed on $30,000 bail after he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A man who told the court that he has no knowledge of breaking and entering  the dwelling place of another and allegedly stealing items valued $278,000 was yesterday remanded to prison after he appeared before  Magistrate Hazel Octave–Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A 30-year-old man who was yesterday charged for malicious damage to property was placed on $20,000 bail after he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

(Trinidad Express) The two alleged gangsters captured last week at the Hyatt Regency hotel, Port of Spain, along with 21 other suspected gang members, appeared in court yesterday, all claiming innocence of the charges levelled against them.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar does not think that the 14-year-old girl who posted a verbally obscene video about her on two social networking sites should be punished.

ATLANTA, (Reuters) – Javaris Crittenton, a former  National Basketball Association athlete who once played for the  Los Angeles Lakers and the Washington Wizards, is wanted on a  murder charge over the death of a woman in Georgia, the FBI  said today.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 10.15 last night at Canal No.

Police today issued a wanted bulletin for a Lusignan, East Coast Demerara businessman in connection with the Block 20 Enmore/Haslington New Scheme multi-million dollar cocaine bust.