Guyana News

Mayor and City Council (M&CC) Treasurer Andrew Meredith yesterday said that the city would be unable to pay its workers this month.

The Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation said it conducted emergency works on the bridge last Monday.

A security guard from Professional Guard Service died on Sunday afternoon in the vicinity of Avenue of the Republic after she was struck down by a motorcycle.

Persons who are yet to uplift their new identification (ID) cards have until polling day to do so, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon said yesterday.

An Essequibo man was last Friday found guilty of the murder of his brother and was sentenced to death by hanging by Justice Franklin Holder, at the Suddie High Court.

The Rosignol Fisherman’s Co-op Society Limited (RFCSL), which owes the Guyana Power & Light (GPL) $26 million, has had its electricity disconnected.

Two men and two women are in police custody after an illegal weapon and five kilogrammes of marijuana were found in the Section ‘C’, Enterprise, East Coast Demerara house they were in.

The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Nankishore Phuljaria, 61 years, of Annandale, ECD, whose body was found in a trench at Good Hope, ECD, at about 0630h.

The police say they are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 0830h today at the “One Love”  Pawnshop at Vigilance, ECD, during which two female sales clerks were attacked and robbed by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun.

Police Constable Cleon Moriah was today charged with manslaughter following investigations into the death of Terry Wayne Jack of Orealla, who was shot while at the Orealla Police Outpost on July 04, 2011.

A fire this afternoon destroyed the top storey of a Cummings Street, Albertown house.

The police say they are investigating an accident that occurred at about1500h yesterday at Avenue of the Republic, Georgetown, and which resulted in the death of Rubena Hutson, 56, years, of Independence Boulevard, Georgetown.

Natasha Johnson, who was severely burnt when her Plaisance home went up in flames on July 4, succumbed to her injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital this morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) Former FIFA vice-president and president of CONCACAF, Jack Warner, was warned by the CONCACAF general secretary that the payment of the expenses for the special meeting of regional football delegates at the Hyatt by Mohammed Bin Hammam “would raise ethical issues.”

(Trinidad Express) The daughter of burn victim Nowmattie Ramnat-Ramphal said she will not rest until she finds out exactly what happened to her mother the night she died.

(Jamaica Observer) At near 3:30 am on Sunday morning a weary audience inside Kingston’s National Indoor Sports Centre applauded the newly-crowned beauty queen, Shakira Martin as she made her first walk as Miss Jamaica Universe 2011.

(Jamaica Observer) FARM, Westmoreland — Angry residents yesterday hacked, then set ablaze the body of 25-year-old security guard Roche Tomlinson which was found in a banana field a day after he shot dead the mother of his two-week-old daughter and his mother-in-law.

(Barbados Nation) Two Caribbean prime ministers and this country’s Minister of Health are at odds with president of the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners (BAMP), Dr Carlos Chase, over last week’s criticism of doctors trained in Cuba.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – If he gets the required permit from the Surinamese government, entrepreneur Bidjaikoemar Ori wants to start this year with the construction of a facility for so-called ‘green coals’.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Scientists have found a  “superbug” strain of gonorrhoea in Japan that is resistant to  all recommended antibiotics and say it could transform a once  easily treatable infection into a global public health threat.