Guyana News

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Suriname will receive a hospital as a gift from China.

(Barbados Nation) About 50 people from 13 community-based organizations staged a pro-Libya demonstration yesterday and denounced Britain and the United States for their involvement in the conflict in the North African state.

AFC Presidential Candidate Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday said that alleged links between senior policemen and drug lords is an extremely dangerous development that warrants the resignation of the Minister of Home Affairs, the Commissioner of Police and all ranks involved.

The discovery of 72 kilogrammes of cocaine at a house at Block 20 Haslington/Enmore New Scheme, East Coast Demerara has shocked residents, who said the couple that has been arrested had been struggling to make ends meet and there was no indication of illegal activity.

The battered body of a 64-year-old security guard was yesterday morning found at his work site at Providence, East Bank Demerara.

Government’s ramped up support to farmers under Phase Two of the Grow More Food campaign will not solve all the problems in agriculture but hopefully make the sector more resilient to challenges, Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud has said.

Several members of the police force hierarchy are under investigation as a result of allegations of ties between them and the drug trade and police yesterday confirmed that a junior officer has tendered his resignation after being transferred following questioning.

Lowell Hope and Sherlund Joseph called ‘Rudolph’ who are accused of murdering 19-year-old Kenny Creame at Monessee Backdam were yesterday remanded to prison when they appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.

USAID-sponsored radio drama Merundoi returned to the airwaves of the National Communication Network (NCN) yesterday, but there has still been no official word on why the broadcast of the serial was abruptly suspended.

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) will pay all monies owed to Ronald Collins, the former sugar worker it declared dead after a mix up.

The police have issued a wanted bulletin for Kwame Crosse in connection with trafficking

Corentyne farmer Bernard Matheson, who was found dismembered on Monday, had been arrested but later released this year in connection with missing fisherman Ringo Hassan Bidasy.

The Electoral Assistance Bureau (EAB) intends to appoint approximately 22,000 local observers to monitor the upcoming General and Regional Elections,  according to Project Director of the Bureau, Abbas Mancey.

More than three dozen persons lost their homes in an early morning fire on Lombard Street, in the city, which destroyed two buildings and five shacks yesterday.

The police have issued wanted bulletins for three persons in connection with fraud.

“Meh worship, I de trying to get a passage fuh go back to Berbice,” was the explanation given to Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton when she enquired from a man his reason for stealing four kitchen knives from Guyana Stores Limited.

A prisoner was yesterday morning stabbed by another inmate at the Camp Street jail and had to be rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) where he was admitted.

A 30-year-old security guard who is accused of unlawfully and maliciously wounding a woman was yesterday placed on $60,000 bail after he appeared before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus.

A man accused of trafficking in five grammes of cocaine was on Tuesday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development Nigel Dharamlall said on Tuesday that work to the Good Hope/Lusignan Bridge which recently came to a halt was due to the contract being withdrawn from Bovell Construction Company for substandard work, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.