Guyana News

Rozena Razack, who was struck down on July 21 on Lamaha Street, yesterday succumbed to her injuries at the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The Brazilian police are looking for a Guyanese man wanted in connection with drug trafficking, according to the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) website.

Nominees for the Guyana Prize for Literature will be shortlisted soon and President Bharrat Jagdeo will confer prizes on the winners at a convocation ceremony planned for August 31.

The Ministry of Education has committed over $179 million for repairs and maintenance to 49 city schools, in order to make them habitable in time for the September term.

A former houseparent at President’s College is angry about what she has termed “an unfair and politically motivated dismissal.”

Disability awareness groups in several regions will benefit from new communication equipment to boost an ongoing awareness programme.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton on Tuesday remanded a man accused of having an unlicensed gun and ammunition and attempting to commit a felony with the said objects, when he appeared in court to answer the charges.

A mechanic was yesterday shot to his left leg after being robbed of his gold chain at his Garnett Street, Newtown, Kitty home.

CARICOM is concerned about the distress and damage wrought by flooding in Layou, Dominica last week Thursday, following the overtopping of the Layou River and breach of the Mathieu Dam.

LONDON, (Reuters Life!) – After a painstaking, six-day  search of a million-pound luxury yacht, the UK Border Agency has  seized its largest ever haul of cocaine — enough to satisfy  around a third of Britain’s annual demand for the drug.

The body of farmer Hemchand Manram, who went missing on Monday when a tour boat capsized in the Mazaruni River, was recovered yesterday morning.

Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton remanded a man accused of an armed robbery when he appeared on Tuesday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A nine-year-old boy was struck down by a car on Agricola Public Road, East Bank Demerara, while he was chasing after a cow.

BOSTON, (Reuters) – Security experts have discovered  an unprecedented series of cyber attacks on the networks of 72  organizations globally, including the United Nations,  governments and corporations, over a five-year period.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident that occurred at about 1630h today at Ruimzigt, WCD, and which resulted in the death of pedestrian Joshua Daniels, 8 years.

The police say they are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 1215h.

The body of Hemchand Manram, 33 years, of Canal No. 1 Polder, WBD, was recovered at about 1100h.

The police say they are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 0230h today at Ithaca, WBB, during which contractor Jermaine Benjamin, 37 years, was attacked and robbed by five men, one of whom was armed with a firearm.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Ramjit Dindial, 35 years, of Lusignan North, ECD, who died at the GPHC, today.

Two men were yesterday remanded over the murder of a Hogstye, Corentyne farmer and a third suspect was found dead from a bullet wound.