Guyana News

The partly nude body of a 68-year-old woman was yesterday afternoon discovered with her throat slit, in a bedroom in her home.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – With the government’s new housing programmes, free houses will not be made available anymore.

The High Court has ratified the appointment of Richard Surage as judicial manager of the St.

The West Indies Cricket Board today said that former West Indies Captain and opening batsman Chris Gayle has made himself unavailable for the Pakistan series in favour of playing in the lucrative Indian Premier League.

Repairs to a section of the Good Hope Stelling that faltered on Monday afternoon were expected to be completed late yesterday afternoon.

An East Bank contractor died in a highway crash yesterday after the vehicle he was travelling in had a blow-out and slammed into a curb.

A Bank of Guyana employee died after her motorcycle collided with a Route 42 minibus on Mandela Avenue early yesterday morning.

Guyanese visiting from overseas have been the target of armed bandits three times this year and according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud the situation is not alarming.

Several private sugar cane farmers yesterday morning were told that they will benefit from a $600 million package which the authorities have made available in the form of support to them.

Four men are wanted by police for questioning in relation to break and enter and larceny.

The consortium that recently completed drilling an exploratory oil well in the Rupununi has applied for permission to begin drilling another but the delay in releasing results of the first well has seen Canacol Energy Inc’s stock drop towards the lowest closing price in seven months.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) plans to use its annual government subvention to restore City Hall, but Mayor Hamilton Green says he is still awaiting word from experts he consulted before works can begin.

The British High Commis-sion, in an effort to support counselling services, has provided the Help & Shelter with funding.

Guyanese Jimmy Smith has been appointed the new Director General of the Inter-national Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in Nairobi Kenya.

Septuagenarian Ray Anthony, alias ‘Rambo’, admitted to a charge of break and enter and larceny yesterday at the New Amsterdam Court but Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo remanded the prisoner and postponed sentencing until May 6.

A taxi-driver accused of causing the death of a greens vendor last Friday by driving in a dangerous manner was granted bail when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

Garden Land Nursery, along Brickdam, was robbed on Monday night. According to a female manager, who asked not to be named, it was the latest robbery over the last three to four weeks.

The Guyana Bauxite & General Workers Union (GB&GWU) yesterday sent letters to Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir and Chairman of the Trade Union Recognition and Certification Board (TUR&CB) Justice Prem Persaud asking them to intervene in the ongoing dispute with the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI), in keeping with their legal responsibilities.

Eugene Thomas, 57, of Thomas Hill, Mabaruma, Region One, died a week after she was bitten by a snake, prompting her family to call for an investigation into the actions of the doctor in charge of the Mabaruma Hospital, who delayed referring the case to the city although he had no medication to treat her.

Fourteen students from the Haslington-Victoria area on the East Coast Demerara are set to benefit from a five-year scholarship from the Rose Philadelphia Annual Scholarship Fund.