Guyana News

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon yesterday continued to face questions over government appointments and contract awards as testimony in President Bharrat Jagdeo’s $10M libel suit against Kaieteur News and columnist Freddie Kissoon continued.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has dispatched to all registered political parties the names of all eligible electors who were registered subsequent to the enactment of the National Registration (Amendment) Act 2011, Act No.

Chris Singh, 22, of D’Edward Village, West Coast Berbice, died by drowning last weekend in the Abary Creek in Region 5.

Gavin Joseph called ‘Blacks’ was yesterday placed on $10,000 bail by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton after being arraigned for discharging a firearm within 100 yards of a public way.

Assistant Commissioner Steve Merai is cooperating with local investigators probing the alleged ties between members of the Guyana Police Force hierarchy and the drug trade, police said in a statement yesterday.

A man who said he used abusive language to his neighbour because “she’s a upstart and always in me [his] business” was yesterday fined $10,000 by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.

A 56-year-old carpenter accused of inflicting grievous bodily harm on a woman was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $100,000 after appearing before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The Ministry of Agriculture’s National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) has commenced a programme to improve and enhance the drainage and irrigation systems in the Mahaica, Mahaicony and Abary areas, a Government Information Agency (GINA) press release stated.

Chutney singer Mahendra Ramkellawan was yesterday acquitted of a charge that he assaulted his wife, after she refused to proceed with the complaint.

Ryan Lewis, while being cross-examined by defence counsel Nigel Hughes, said that murder accused Dwayne Jordan was bored  while the two were rolling down a flight of stairs during a scuffle at a Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara home.

A Bible teacher accused of using threatening behaviour towards a man was yesterday placed on $10,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.

Though garbage contractors have resumed work, illegal dumping by some citizens is stymieing the City Council’s serious effort to clean the city and keep it that way, says City Hall spokesman Royston King.

Agriculture Minister, Robert Persaud yesterday met the relatives of the five missing Berbice fishermen and he assured them that all efforts are being made by Guyanese and the Suriname authorities to locate the fishers.

As a result of the curfew imposed in Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean Airlines Limited has said that all of its flights continue to operate on their regular schedule.

The Leader of The United Force, Valerie Garrido-Lowe has asked the party’s former Leader Manzoor Nadir to give up the seat he currently holds in Parliament.

PORT OF SPAIN,  (Reuters) – Authorities rounded up  nearly 120 people in Trinidad and Tobago after imposing  emergency rule on the oil-rich Caribbean nation this week to  halt a spike in violent crime.

  A Bartica woman was killed on Tuesday night and police arrested the suspect today.

BENGHAZI, Libya,  (Reuters) – A $1.3 million bounty  and an amnesty awaits anyone who hands over Muammar Gaddafi,  alive or dead, Libya’s rebel council said today.

(Trinidad Guardian)  Former West Indies fast bowler and current analyst Michael Holding says that he rates Brian Lara as a technically better player than Sachin Tendulkar. Speaking

(Trinidad Guardian) Media magnate Ken Gordon said a state of emergency in T&T was long overdue.