Guyana News

(Barbados Nation) Businessman Gray “Doc” Brome is closing down two of his Pizza Man Doc outlets.

(Barbados Nation) Urgent calls have been made for the protection of the elderly and tourists in the aftermath of the recent spate of crime: the killing of an elderly man and his son-in-law, the rape of a St John woman, and the shooting of two police officers.

The Guyana Revenue Autho-rity (GRA) has dismissed a customs officer and suspended three others, following the discovery of $700M in cocaine in a container shipped from here to Jamaica.

Representatives from Good Earth Development yesterday met with President Bharrat Jagdeo to “facilitate discussions for (a) coalition among Guyanese engineers and financiers” to build a railway between Boa Vista, Brazil and Georgetown.

The fate of eight members of the Presidential Guard Ser-vice, who were arrested after a recent raid, will be decided by the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), which is currently studying the case file.

State-owned National Communication Network (NCN) yesterday afternoon pulled the popular radio play Merundoi from its airwaves reportedly over a storyline that dealt with voter education.

Eleven companies yesterday bid to supply netbooks/laptops for the government’s much vaunted One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) programme.

The PPP’s Central Committee has agreed to postpone holding its constitutionally due Congress to focus on the upcoming elections, a decision which party stalwart Moses Nagamootoo feels has robbed the party’s membership of the opportunity to endorse or review the candidacy of Donald Ramotar.

An employee within the Guyana Revenue Authority’s Surveillance and Anti-Smuggling Section (SASS) had his firearm taken away by the police two weeks ago, after he reportedly threatened a civilian at a city night club late last month.

There is nothing preventing proprietor of the Celina Atlantic Resort, Bernard Yhun, from expanding the facility, which is located in the environmentally-sensitive area north of the seawall next to the Kitty pump station, according to his lawyer Manoj Narayan.

A father of three died on Monday afternoon, after the branch of a tree he had just felled landed on his head, in the Three Sisters Backdam, in Canje River.

The Electoral Assistance Bureau (EAB) yesterday received a US$217,285 grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to implement a nationwide domestic observation programme for the upcoming polls.

An investigation has been launched into the recent death of Wakenaam resident Jasoda Lloyd, who succumbed one week after having delivered a stillbirth baby, Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy has said.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton remanded to prison a 24-year-old cook accused of assaulting a woman, when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer the charge.

APNU Presidential Candidate Brigadier (rtd) David Granger has blamed the PPP/C administration for the underdeveloped state of the Upper Mazaruni and has proposed to use revenues derived from the mineral-rich region to develop the area.

One person has been arrested in connection with last Saturday’s Goed Fortuin robbery, and investigators are also ruling out any possible link to a similar attack at Uitvlugt on Monday night.

PPP/C presidential candidate Donald Ramotar says he has no problem with debating any of the persons vying to become president “as long as it is politically good to do so”.

Tomorrow’s Impress Youth Expo, organised by Youths for the PPP/C, is an attempt to address the disregard for youth in political and social change.

Handyman Youganand Persaud was yesterday fined $10,000 for disorderly conduct and bonded to keep the peace by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.

A labourer, charged with unlawfully wounding a woman, was yesterday placed on $85,000 bail at the George-town Magistrates’ Court.