Guyana News

(Barbados Nation) Threatened with sanctions after being given a 48-hour deadline by FIFA, the Barbados Football Association (BFA) yesterday proclaimed its innocence in bribery allegations levelled at banned former presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam.

A gang of about 30 men, including presidential guards, early yesterday morning stormed into Guyana Sandport Inc.

A woman is now dead and a girl is a patient of the Woodlands Hospital following a hit-and-run accident last evening at Crane, West Coast Demerara.

The Bharrat Jagdeo administration last night denied exerting pressure on CNS Channel 6 boss CN Sharma to pull any of his programming, including the ‘Keeping Them Honest’ talk show.

It is “absolutely” important for opposition political parties to have equal access to state media, says Dr.

Sacked doctor, Vishwamintra Persaud was yesterday released on $400,000 bail at the High Court in Berbice more than one week after he was remanded on charges of sexually molesting a 13-year-old girl.

Griffin Osafo Corbin yesterday became the third person charged with the $6.9M hold-up of two Avon employees.

Amerindian leaders from across Guyana have gathered for the five-day National Toshaos Conference.

American Professor Dr David Lublin yesterday noted that while it is not unusual for countries to use proportional representation as its electoral system, Guyana’s system is more unique than most because of its closed list system which is controlled by the head of the list.

Twenty-nine-year-old Devika Persaud of No. 50 Village, Corentyne whose battered body was found along the No.

While the PPP says indicted businessman Ed Ahmad made no financial contributions to its 2011 political campaign “nor can he be considered in any way part of the PPP structure or the PPP/C government” he was one of the contact persons listed for an April 29 event in the US where the party’s presidential candidate Donald Ramotar was introduced.

A man who the police say was found in possession of an unlicensed gun and ammunition was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The speedboat, which sprang a leak in the Essequibo River with 17 passengers on board, may have struck a pile, investigators believe.

Three men were remanded to prison yesterday for robbing another man.

Bartica’s market has been without water and electricity for about three weeks, and according to the Chairman of the Bartica Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) Gerald Joseph, there is not much that can be done.

A drug trafficker who sold ganja to an undercover police officer was sentenced to five years in jail at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

A woman’s business and home located on Mandela Avenue were yesterday demolished by workers from the Ministry of Public Works, which is currently carrying out a campaign to remove all encroachments to the Public Road Reserve.

A man who allegedly stole a gold chain valued $1.5M was placed on bail yesterday by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Nigel Campbell, 27, of Number 50 Village, Coren-tyne is currently a patient at the New Amsterdam Hospital, after he was struck down by a Canter truck around on Saturday night.

Roy Campbell, who was out on bail on an assault charge, was on Monday remanded after new charges were laid against him.