Guyana News

Two Guyanese and three Jamaican men are in custody after a police search unearthed a gun, among other items at a Cummings Lodge home on the East Coast Demerara yesterday.

Sugar would be dead without the political commitment of the administration, President Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday at the opening of the new packaging plant at Enmore, where he predicted a brighter future for the industry under a Donald Ramotar-led government.

More than five months after a massive fire destroyed the historic Humphrey building on Main Street, the Guyana Fire Service has completed its investigation and concluded that the fire was the result of an act of arson.

The operations of the Region 10 Regional Democratic Council (RDC) are expected to be disrupted over the next few days, after extensive damage to key offices during a fire on Sunday.

Two armed bandits yesterday held a gun to a husband and wife, who usually sell groceries at Bourda Market, and grabbed $575,000 from them; the incident has left the couple pleading for security to be beefed up.

At least 16 persons have been arrested as police intensify investigations into the armed robberies at Number 11 and Number 56 villages, in the Corentyne that left one man shot and another nursing chop wounds.

A truck collided with a car on Mandela Avenue on Sunday night, killing taxi-driver Quincy Kellman and leaving his eight-year-old daughter an orphan.

Officials from the Region 3 administration came under intense scrutiny yesterday from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament after they were unable to properly account for a quantity of wooden piles that had been seized from a defaulting contractor back in 2005.

Two Canje residents had their driver’s licenses suspended pending the outcome of a causing death by dangerous driving case following a fatal accident last June.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) said yesterday that maintenance works at its new Kingston plant have come to an end, five days ahead of schedule but a second round is expected to begin later this month.

Gecom has started conducting the mandatory claims and objections exercise of entries on the Preliminary List of Electors (PLE) for the imminent general and regional elections.

A 27-year-old-year-old emotionally disturbed Guyanese man has been charged with stabbing his mother to death in their Brooklyn apartment last week Wednesday.

Developer of the Amaila Falls hydropower plant Sithe Global will this week be holding community meetings in Linden and Georgetown to discuss the recently released Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Report (ESIA).

The man accused of murdering his younger brother after throwing a lit stove on him was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Even as residents protested the move, Bartica speedboat operators yesterday hiked the fare for travel between the interior community and Parika to $2,500.

Seven-year-old Althea Clement died on Sunday evening, after she and her father were struck down by a car in a hit and run on the Wales Public Road, West Bank Demerara.

The preliminary inquiry (PI) into the Charlestown murders of Cedrick Blackman and Ann Cham-A-Koon with which William Light has been charged commenced yesterday before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani rejected allegations yesterday that the killing of Osama bin Laden near Islamabad by US forces showed Pakistani incompetence or complicity in hiding the al Qaeda leader.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – NATO planes pounded Libyan government targets yesterday but stalemate in the rebel war to unseat Muammar Gaddafi has presented Western powers with a dilemma over whether to offer covert aid to the cause.

All systems are in place for REDjet’s inaugural flight between Guyana and Barbados today and the regional airline has expressed delight at the initial response it has been receiving from the travelling public.