Guyana News

Malali resident Wilbert Hall was robbed and shot to the abdomen while in a restaurant at McKenzie, Linden.

Madam Justice Roxanne George yesterday sentenced Ramnaught Doobay to 17 years imprisonment for the 2005 murder of businessman Mark Anthony Gill.

A Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara man was killed and an unidentified child injured after the car they were in crashed into a bridge at Orangestein, East Bank Essequibo yesterday morning.

West Demerara businessman Safraz Khan was attacked and robbed by gunmen in his yard on Thursday night.

Director of the Child Care & Protection Agency Anne Greene yesterday said that her agency is working to get two sisters out of Port Kaituma, Region One following reports that a man charged with sexually abusing one of them is once again living in the same home, even as the trial continues at the Mathew’s Ridge Magistrates Court.

Port Kaituma residents in the North West District of Region One are disputing a recently “completed” multi-million dollar road project, which they say has not been delivered.

Head of the recently established Educational Television Broadcasting Service (ETBS) Dr Seeta Shah Roath has said that new channel was conceived as a resource to aid teachers in carrying out their lesson plans.

Minister of Human Services Priya Manickchand and Guyana’s Permanent Ambassador to the United States Bayney Karran met with senior executives at Sesame Workshop in New York, to discuss bringing the Sesame Street programme to Guyana.

“I make everything from scratch,” says Ian Sealey, who has been selling his handmade kites for the past 25 years.

Furniture maker Mohan Jangbir is an unlikely success. About five years ago, he found himself with very little and with nowhere to turn.

Troy Hanes, 33, was yesterday remanded on charges of unlawful and malicious assault and attempted robbery, when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama  acknowledged yesterday there was a “stalemate” on the ground in  Libya, but said he still expected the three-week-old air  campaign to succeed in ousting Muammar Gaddafi eventually.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Police said on Friday they may  launch a criminal investigation into comments made by News  International Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks about the payment  of police by journalists.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan,  (Reuters) – A suicide bomber  killed the police chief of Afghanistan’s Kandahar province yesterday, the second assassination this year of a top official in  an area that is the Taliban’s heartland and the focus of a U.S. 

SANAA/AMMAN, (Reuters) – Mass protests spread to  the capital of Syria for the first time today and looked  closer than ever to driving out the leader of Yemen, nearly four  months since unrest erupted across the Arab world.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. military said it  shot down an intermediate-range ballistic missile target over  the Pacific yesterday in the “most challenging” test yet of its  work on a planned antimissile shield for Europe against Iran.

The Hamilton Spectator of Canada has reported that a suspect in the shooting death of Hamilton, Canada teen Brandon Musgrave was held in Guyana and flown back to Canada where he is expected to appear in court today.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s biggest corruption  case descended into bickering over the quality of poorly  photocopied witness testimonies and noisy ceiling fans yesterday  as five senior business executives fought to win bail in a  packed and stuffy court.

A Foulis, West Coast Berbice resident died on Thursday night at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), two days after she was struck down by a minibus.

Canadian online publication The Spec is reporting that a second suspect in the shooting death of Hamilton, Canada teen Brandon Musgrave was held in Guyana and flown back to Canada where he is expected to appear in court on Saturday.