Guyana News

The PPP will decide on its presidential candidate on Monday but it is still to be determined whether this will be done by secret ballot or an open vote.

Minutes after gunmen in a vehicle discharged several rounds on D’Urban Street, causing the patrons of a nearby bar to panic, they were chased to the Cummings Lodge area where they exchanged gunfire with police.

For over a decade, a miner has been operating on their titled land without their consent and despite numerous complaints to the authorities, no action has been taken, the Toshao of the Amerindian village of Chinese Landing said yesterday.

A two-month-old baby and his five-year-old brother have been placed in the care of the Probation and Social Services of Region 5 after they were found unattended at home yesterday morning.

A Canadian-based Guyanese, who has been renovating his house at Bath Settlement, West Berbice, has disappeared since Tuesday after leaving to transact business in Georgetown.

As a Sophia woman went about a usual evening chore of burning garbage, it exploded, causing her to sustain severe burns about the body.

As police continue to grill eight persons held in connection with Thursday’s brazen armed robbery of Guyana Stockfeeds Limited, investigators are looking for the mastermind who they believe has fled to Linden.

An elderly couple was left traumatised after three men invaded a Sophia house early yesterday morning and took a small amount of gold jewellery and cash.

Two Guyana Sugar Cor-poration (GuySuCo) cane harvesters are in police custody following a sting operation, in which they were caught destroying transport punts to be resold as scrap metal.

Two bandits held a woman at gunpoint and stripped her of her jewellery at Pigeon Island, East Coast Demerara on Thursday afternoon.

Reaz Khan, 20, is now a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he ingested a quantity of telephone cleaner, while being held by police.

Security guards at the Zoological Park and the Botanical Gardens recently decried their working conditions and said that they work under “severe pressure” because there is a shortage of staff.

The Georgetown Reading and Research Centre (GRRC) yesterday opened its biggest book sale at Bookland, its new and permanent location.

Regional Health Officer (RHO) of Region Three Dr. Ravindranauth Persaud yesterday said that the medication given to a now hospitalised Cornelia Ida pensioner was not expired and that the woman had been using the same and similar medication for over 15 years.

Winners of the US Embassy’s ‘Guyana is Gorgeous Photography Competition’ were yesterday presented with awards for their work as the National Museum and the Embassy co-hosted an art display promoting nature photography that encourages tourism.

Two labourers, who pleaded guilty in separate larceny cases, were yesterday each sentenced to a three year jail term by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Afghans protesting the burning of a Koran by an obscure US pastor over-ran a UN compound yesterday and killed at least seven international staff in the deadliest-ever attack on the United Nations in Afghanistan.

A man accused of stealing a quantity of items belonging to another was yesterday sentenced to 12 months imprisonment by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ court.

TRIPOLI/AJDABIYAH, Libya (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi’s government scorned rebel conditions for a nationwide ceasefire, and there was no sign of international diplomatic efforts cooling the Libyan conflict.

A man who admitted that he lashed another with a cutlass and then placed the weapon to his neck was yesterday imprisoned for 14 days by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.