Guyana News

A West Berbice father has been taken into custody for allegedly sexually molesting his 13-year-old son.

The city council tractor driver, who ran over an elderly man on Water Street, has been released by police without charge, leaving the dead man’s family furious.

Mohan Singh’s decomposing remains were yesterday morning found in his Triumph, East Coast Demerara home and while foul play is not suspected, police are awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination.

Following a late night meeting on Tuesday, Freddie Kissoon was returned as a columnist for the Kaieteur News, just a day after he was told he would no longer write for the newspaper.

An ex-policeman was yesterday placed on $150,000 bail over causing death by dangerous driving.

Two men were yesterday placed on $250,000 bail each over the allegation that they had fraudulently obtained four flasks of mercury.

Less than three weeks after he was ordered to do community service, a 16-year-old student of the Linden Foundation Secondary School was back before Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Christianburg Magistrates’ Court to answer another charge of break and enter and larceny.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) last Monday upheld the local High Court decision in favour of the Guyana Bank of Trade and Industry (GBTI), ruling that Desiree Alleyne, a director of a defaulting company, repay the Bank $10 million with interest.

Route 42 (Georgetown/Timehri) mini-bus operators plying the route along the East Bank of Demerara yesterday staged a strike for increased fares, leaving many commuters stranded at the end of the day.

Safeguarding the mangrove replanting drive through community involvement is being seen as one of the successes of the ongoing Guyana Man-grove Restoration Project (GMRP).

The preliminary inquiry (PI) into the attempted murder of Police Constables Rajindra Singh and Damintra Intrapaul continued yesterday.

Just over a week after he was granted bail on a breaking and entering larceny charge, Devon Nurse was arraigned on two similar charges.

An Amelia’s Ward man was yesterday fined $50,000 for drunk driving.

Fisherman Noel Abrams was yesterday refused bail by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry after he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on a charge of fraudulent conversion.

The Beterverwagting Post Office was on Tuesday evening broken into and the perpetrators escaped with an undisclosed sum of cash, phone cards and a small quantity of stamps.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Forces loyal to Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara launched a heavy attack yesterday on the bunk-er where Laurent Gbagbo is holed up but appeared to have been repelled, a Western military source said.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya said a UN-mandated British air strike had hit its major Sarir oilfield killing three guards and damaging a pipeline connecting the field to a Mediterranean port.

Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday remanded a man accused of robbing a woman at gunpoint while she was sitting in her car.

LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies are trying to broker a deal to have Yemen’s president step down and hand over power, possibly to an interim council of tribal and political leaders, sources told Reuters yesterday.

The Embassy of the Russian Federation in Guyana is seeking to raise awareness of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, as the 50th anniversary of his becoming the first human to journey into outer space nears.