Guyana News

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The government was forced to close off the area around Maripaston in Para after things got out of hand because of rampant gold fever in that area.

(Barbados Nation) Three young men confessed yesterday to killing retired Assistant Commissioner of Police Frederick William Phillips in what “was a robbery gone horribly wrong”.

Guyana has received a better ranking for its efforts to prevent human trafficking during the last year, but the US State Department has criticized the administration for minimizing the potential scope of the issue and not taking action against complicit officials.

The police are investigating the murder of a 23-year-old miner who was stabbed by another miner at Big Creek Landing in the North West District.

Three men were killed and two others injured when the lumber truck they were travelling in toppled down a hill before coming to rest in a ravine at Papaya Turn called ‘Hill Seven’ at Matthew’s Ridge North West District on Sunday afternoon.

Two men and a woman were yesterday accused of attempting to kidnap the son of a lumberyard businessman, as part of what police said was a scheme to target the family members of the rich.

President of Giftland OfficeMax Roy Beepat says that the information which informed Cabinet’s decision to retender for the supply of computers for the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project was flawed and has called for greater scrutiny and clearer guidelines for the transparent evaluation of the new bids.

Minister of Education Shaik Baksh has said that officials from his ministry will be investigating the incident which occurred at the Charlestown Secondary School last Friday.

About 300 schoolchildren turned up at the Rosignol Ferry Stelling yesterday morning to cross using the pontoon MB Sandaka, only to discover that it was not working.

The main opposition PNCR has not been dissolved, collaged or merged, party Vice Chairman Basil Williams has said, while stating that all party leaders are on board for the upcoming elections.

The persons who kidnapped Yarrowkabra teens, Marissa Carrington and LaShawn Ann Mootoo are being described as `professionals’ and police are continuing their hunt for them as well as the place where they were held captive for three days.

Councillor Ranwell Jordan yesterday declared that the city needs to approach the government in addressing the issue of salaries owed to workers.

Republic Bank, for the third consecutive year, received the Business of Excellence Award for its HIV workplace programme.

Moments of inattention as she worried over the ill-health of her youngest child on Saturday cost Elizabeth Francis dearly, as her two eldest slipped away to a nearby canal to bathe and drowned.

The Small Business Development Finance (SBDF) Trust was able to fund 685 micro and small loans valued at over $274 million last year, and achieved a surplus of $17.6 million for the year, according to Chairman Sattaur Gafoor.

Guyana began participating in the Internation-al Monetary Fund’s General Data Dissemi-nation System (GDDS) on Wednesday, marking a major step forward in the development of the country’s statistical system, a press release said.

Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang recently reduced a $1.2M bail sum to $20,000 for a Montrose man who was charged with fraudulent conversion.

Quacy Howes, a vendor, was yesterday remanded to prison by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine Beharry, on the charge that he broke into a store and stole $1.6 million in items.

A Stabroek News staff member is hospitalized in a serious condition, as a result of a hit and run accident in which she was involved on Sunday night.

Winston Kattow, the father who left his wife and three children homeless when he set their Friendship, East Bank Demerara home on fire on Thursday last, has not yet been apprehended by the police.