Guyana News

A local entertainer is calling for justice after he was severely beaten by about 50 persons on the Railway Line at Plaisance, early Tuesday morning following his performance at a wake.

Former PPP/C Minister, Dr. Henry Jeffery says that tackling political corruption here requires at the minimum a re-conceptualizing of the Integrity Commission with a view to making it more effective and independent of the Executive but President Bharrat Jagdeo says he does not know what Jeffery means.

Guyana’s debt to Venezuela for oil obtained under the PetroCaribe arrangement currently stands at over US$160M, President Bharrat Jagdeo says.

-Jagdeo Taxpayers may end up footing the multi-million dollar bill for remedial works on the bungled Supenaam Stelling, according to President Bharrat Jagdeo.

A temporary solution has been affected along an impassable section of the Ituni/Kwakwani Road, but only small vehicles are able to travel through the area.

-gov’t to foot bill for polls The PPP will name its presidential candidate shortly, President Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday, even as he declined to say whether he was supporting any candidate in particular.

The unidentified body of a man was yesterday pulled out of a trench in Le Repentir Cemetery.

The suspect in the murder of Claudine Bentham, who was found on the Kitty seawall with a slashed throat three weeks ago, has been arrested.

-still no evidence of Synergy’s experience Workers from both Guyana and China will most likely be part of the construction team building the road at the proposed site for the Amaila Hydroelectric plant (AFHEP), President Bharrat Jagdeo revealed yesterday.

-opposition seeks details The National Assembly on Thursday evening passed three motions to waive tax laws for petroleum exploration by three companies.

The Norwegian government is inviting bids from consultancy companies to verify the satisfactory execution by Guyana of a set of enabling activities under the Guyana-Norway forest protection agreement.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday sentenced Sonnel Pollard, 29, to six months imprisonment for escaping from a police station.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday remanded a Brazilian national and a Guyanese to prison after they were allegedly found with a quantity of cannabis in a haversack.

Prince Pickering and Travis Lewis, both 17, were yesterday placed on $30,000 bail, after being charged with allegedly snatching a man’s cell phone.

Bibi Latif, whose charred remains were pulled from the ruins of her Debuff, Canal Number Two, West Bank Demerara home after a fire, died from smoke inhalation and there is no evidence of foul play, a senior police officer yesterday revealed.

Police arrested two people, including a foreign national, after they were found in possession of a stolen gun at a Bel Air, East Coast Demerara house Thursday afternoon.

–Ramsaran Minister in the Ministry of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran said the mosquito infestation problem in Region Six is now under control after several fogging machines and chemicals had been dispatched to tackle the problem.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday rebuffed criticisms made by Pegasus Hotel owner Robert Badal regarding government’s investment in the Marriott International Hotel, and said that the businessman was just afraid of new competition.

Communities have been responding positively to mangrove initiatives, Chairperson of the Mangrove Action Committee Annette Arjoon-Martins said yesterday, as a copy of the Mangrove Management Plan was handed over to Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud yesterday.

Carvil Duncan was last week re-elected as President of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG).