Guyana News

Murdered former boxer Linden Mortley was on the police radar for more than a decade for ties to organised crime, including narcotics and firearm trafficking, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said yesterday.

A team of senior RUSAL officials is in Guyana to investigate a complaint by the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) on behalf of Aroaima workers against the General Manager of Operations of the local subsidiary and will meet the Labour Ministry and the union on Friday.

With some $6.5 million in advances still outstanding for the period 1997- 2009, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament yesterday ripped into the regional  administration of Region Nine (Upper Takutu/Upper Essequibo) for its lackadaisical approach in addressing the issue.

Hand-in-Hand Trust Corporation Inc last year recorded an after-tax profit of $14,521,654, after recovering from a challenging 2009, when it registered a loss of $904,490,277 on the back of the writing off of impaired Allen Stanford investments.

Sections of the trail linking Region Nine to the coastland have started to deteriorate after recent heavy rains, leaving both residents of the Lethem border community and motorists on edge.

An infamous car-parts thieving ring called the ‘Salt Fish Gang’ has struck again, this time at Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara and one of its teenage members, who has a matter in court, was caught while police are seeking his accomplices.

A 45-year-old Anna Regina machine operator was on Sunday afternoon admitted to the Suddie Hospital following an industrial accident at his worksite during which he lost part of his right hand.

Hit-and-run survivor Cedric Clement said yesterday he was still undecided about agreeing to a settlement with the driver of the vehicle who caused the death of his daughter Althea Clement and left him nursing injuries in hospital.

Some 100 breeding animals were distributed to livestock farmers from across the country at the Guyana Livestock Development Authority, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara last Friday.

A man accused of narcotics trafficking, possession of stolen property and firearm and ammunition offences, was yesterday refused bail when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The prosecution yesterday made oral submissions to the court in the matter in which social activist Mark Benschop and columnist Freddie Kissoon have been accused of obstruction of municipal works at the Cemetery Road dumpsite.

The 16-year-old pregnant teenager, who was beaten last Friday by a male relative, was on Sunday night readmitted to the hospital in a weakened state and doctors are now monitoring her condition.

A Community Policing Group member and his wife were refused bail when they appeared at the Springlands Court before Magistrate Krishndat Persaud, charged with possession of an unlicensed fiearm.

Ranwattie Rabindranauth, known as “Shirley,” was yesterday fined $25,000 by Magistrate Fabayo Azore for making a false report to police that her neighbour assaulted her.

THE HAGUE/TRIPOLI (Reuters) – The world’s top war crimes prosecutor sought an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, accusing him of killing protesters who want an end to end his four-decade rule.

As the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the treason matter against Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Major Bruce Munroe, his wife Carol Ann Munroe and ex-soldier Leonard Wharton continued yesterday, Quincy Critchlow once again continued his testimony in the witness box.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The IMF executive board was briefed on criminal charges against Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn yesterday and will monitor developments in the case, the fund said in a statement.

Social activist Mark Benschop yesterday cross-examined Assistant Superintendent Rishi Das, when his trial over obstructing the use of the road with his vehicle commenced before Magistrate Chandra Sohan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s presidential front-runner Keiko Fujimori has hired former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as an adviser, trying to bolster her law-and-order credentials without relying on the image of her divisive father, jailed former President Alberto Fujimori.

Two men yesterday appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court where one was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $30,000 for cocaine trafficking, while the other will appear in Court 5 today after he was refused bail in the same matter.