Guyana News

Three Mabaruma children are now hospitalized following an accident in which a car slammed into a lamp post, injuring them in the process.

Businessman Omprakash ‘Buddy’ Shivraj and some of his employees are being accused of assaulting and threatening members of a National Insurance Scheme (NIS) inspection team last Friday, when they visited his New Providence, East Bank Demerara construction site and seized wage records and time sheets.

Managing Director of Channel 6 CN Sharma has said he is being “harassed” about his programming, explaining that the “authorities” want to dictate who can appear on the airwaves.

US-based Guyanese businessman Edul Ahmad, who was last Friday slapped with mortgage fraud charges, allegedly conspired on numerous occasions, to obtain mortgage loans from lenders through fraudulent means, according to a complaint filed against him in the New York Eastern District court by FBI Special Agent Bryan J Trebelhorn.

By the end of July next year, Guyana’s public health sector should be given a boost in dealing with patients in the high dependency as well as intensive care units, as a result of a critical care nursing programme launched yesterday.

Seventeen passengers escaped unhurt after a speedboat sprang a leak in the deep waters of the Essequibo River on Sunday afternoon.

Two men were yesterday charged with involvement in last week’s raid at Five Star Backdam, North West District, during which a Brazilian was shot multiple times and others were robbed of over $2 million in raw gold and a gun and ammunition.

The body of a 29-year-old Corentyne woman was discovered with suspected stab wounds at the Number 61 Village foreshore around 6 am on Sunday.

The PPP said yesterday that New York-based businessman Ed Ahmad who was charged by the US FBI with mortgage fraud has not made any financial contributions to the PPP/C’s 2011 political campaign “nor can he be considered in any way part of the PPP structure or the PPP/C government”.

Thomas St Rose, a Survival Supermarket guard, was yesterday charged with stealing money from a shopper’s basket, an act which Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton heard was recorded by a surveillance camera.

The final New Building Society (NBS) multimillion-dollar fraud preliminary inquiry (PI) has been hit with yet another delay, this time due to the absence of Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

A man who stole a quantity of mangoes was yesterday fined $25,000.

The first wife of the late president Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, Sheila Lataste Burnham, died last Friday at her daughter’s home in St Vincent at the age of 90.

Amerijet International is celebrating 20 years of providing all-cargo service to the Piarco International Airport in Trinidad and Tobago and the South Caribbean.

Norman Holder of Lot 6 James Street, Albouys-town, Georgetown, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

A farmer was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $120,000 on a charge of false pretence, stemming from a gold purchase he made.

Three women, charged with abusive language, were remanded yesterday by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Former administrator of St Ann’s Home, Sister Beatrice Fernandes OSU, has died.

Caribbean Airlines says it created history inGuyanaas it helped the Georgetown-based, Alpha United Football Club to get toCosta Ricafor a Concacaf tournament.

The PPP this evening said that New York-based businessman Ed Ahmad who was charged by the US FBI with mortgage fraud has not made any financial contributions to the PPP/C’s 2011 political campaign “nor can he be considered in any way part of the PPP structure or the PPP/C Government”.