Guyana News

Police have issued wanted bulletins for four men in connection with break and enter and larceny.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba’s Communist Party chose  the old guard to oversee a new economic course for the  Caribbean island today, selecting President Raul Castro  and First Vice President Jose Machado Ventura to lead the  country’s highest political body.

A clothes vendor was this morning denied bail by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton, when he appeared before her charged with attempted murder and robbery under arms.

A La Grange woman is dead after a Route 42 minibus collided with the motorcycle she was driving.

A section of the drawbridge at the recently opened Good Hope/Supenaam stelling on the Essequibo Coast collapsed under the weight of a vehicle, triggering traffic congestion in the area late yesterday afternoon.

The two men who were apprehended on Friday evening last after the Berbice cocaine bust yesterday appeared Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

REDjet, billed as the Carib-bean‘s first low fare airline, yesterday officially launched its operations here and it plans to stimulate travel within the region with its “war on high air fares”.

South American businessman Jose Arturo Castillo Balcazar was allegedly fatally shot by a soldier at Eteringbang on Saturday.

The main opposition PNCR has called on the Education Ministry to revisit the programme content and guide for the Educational Television Broadcasting Service (ETBS), which it says was launched before it was ready.

The Ministry of Agriculture and the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute have been working with farmers in Region One to develop new crops such as spices, including turmeric, black pepper, ginger and nutmeg, the Government Information Agency said in a release.

Trust in the police force is critical to nation building and democratic stability according to a new report from the Vanderbilt University-based Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) which says that the level of trust here is 42.3 out of 100, ahead of the figures in Trinidad and Jamaica.

The parents of a 17-year-old girl of Rosignol, West Bank Berbice are distressed that they got her married to a 25-year-old US-based Guyanese, who has turned out to be a drug user.

The Georgetown Public Hospital in a release yesterday said that its Occupational Safety and Health Officer has said that the type of cockroach that has plagued the Female Medical Ward is the German species, which did not originate there but was taken into the hospital.

The family of pensioner Elfreida Benjamin, who died after she was hospitalized following the use of expired medication reportedly given to her by a public healthcare facility, has decided to seek legal advice on how to proceed with the matter.

Guyana led the way in developing the “economics of trees” and citizens must be proud of the collective achievements, President Bharrat Jagdeo has said but he warned of the consequences if forests are considered in isolation from climate policies.

Despite a cut in the excise tax on gasoline, prices at the state-owned Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil) remain the same, which an official explained may be due to stations selling previously purchased stock.

Almost a week after it was made public that he was living with the child he is accused of raping, Vibert Henry on Sunday moved out of the Canal Backdam, Port Kaituma home.

The second and third of seven witnesses in the robbery under arms trial of Tyrone “Cobra” Rowe, who is accused of committing the offence against Mark Hunte, testified on Friday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A taxi driver was last Sunday night shot before being beaten unconscious while he was visiting a female friend at Arapaima Street, East La Penitence.

Navindra Shamlall, the man who was found dead at Eccles over the weekend, died from drowning compounded by blunt cranial trauma and relatives say that they are not ruling out foul play.