Guyana News

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday that criminal activity had ground to almost zero since the limited state of emergency was declared on Sunday night.

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.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – England steamrolled India with a  consistent and ruthless display in the recently concluded 4-0  series whitewash but the tourists’ meek surrender of the number  one test ranking was primarily their own doing.

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.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — On Monday, City Entertainment of which entrepreneur Oemar Chiragally is President-Director, received a presidential resolution informing him that the license of the casino has again been revoked.

A drinking spree yesterday afternoon ended tragically, after a woman was stabbed to the heart allegedly by her reputed husband of less than a year.

The Phoenix Recovery Project (PRP) recently launched a Street-Based Intervention programme that offers meals to drug addicts living on the streets while also providing first line treatment, including making referrals for them to get medical help.

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

Residents on the East Coast and West Bank of Demerara yesterday viewed a rare weather phenomenon in the form of  waterspouts in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Guyana Defence Force has denied claims that it tortured one of its ranks by stripping, beating and forcing him to lie on a “wet concrete floor while in custody at army headquarters, Camp Ayanganna.”

Ryan Lewis yesterday testified that moments after he and his wife responded to screams coming from a Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara home, they were attacked by murder accused Dwayne Jordan, who was armed with a hatchet and a knife.

Gavin Joseph, who is alleged to have shot his wife at their Prashad Nagar home on August 12, is to be formally arraigned on a charge of firing a loaded weapon.

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) on Monday commissioned a $69M reconstructed office in Corriverton, Region 6, that is expected to improve the quality of services being offered to NIS clientele in that region, a Government Information Agency (GINA) press release said.

Joseph McPherson was sentenced to eight years imprisonment for the murder of his wife, Fiona Fraser-McPherson, after he pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter.

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) says it is concerned about the loss of lives in Libya as the Colonel Muammar Gaddafi government battles rebel forces seeking to end his more than four decades in power.

Guyanese Francis Vieira, a pilot of the now-defunct luxury charter company Platinum Jet Management, was on Monday sentenced to six months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to defraud charter customers and brokers using interstate wires and to impede and obstruct the FAA, a release from the Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey has said.

A Trans Guyana Airways (TGA) Cessna Caravan careened off the runway at the Mabaruma airstrip in Region One yesterday morning after the aircraft suffered an apparent brake failure.

Chief Executive Officer, Dr Dindial Permaul and two senior veterinarians of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) conducted an unannounced inspection of several hatcheries along the East Bank Demerara and Soesdyke on Monday following complaints of poor quality chicks.

The Craig Milne/Victoria pump station which was rehabilitated at a cost of $61M by contractor Harrychand Tulsi was commissioned on Monday afternoon by Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

After being stranded in the city due to damage to his boat engine, toshao of Kurutuku, Solomon Lewis was further inconvenienced after someone stole the vessel.