Guyana News

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Soldiers and police stormed a  Kingston slum today and traded gunfire with supporters of  an alleged Jamaican drug lord who faces extradition to the  United States.

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the escape of a prisoner who was arrested last week in relation to possession of an unlicensed firearm in a vehicle.

Police have issued a wanted bulletin for Compton Greene called ‘Red Eye’, who is wanted by the police in connection with the murder of security guard Arjune Gobin as well as a series of armed robberies committed on the Corentyne.

-amid raucous scenes Amid raucous scenes and allegations that the process was “hijacked”, Clement Corlette was yesterday elected Chairman of the PNCR’s Region Four Committee.

Government will continue to support the transformation of the economies in Amerindian communities but slow res-ponses from areas like Wiruni have been affecting increased development.

Staff members of the Government Technical Institute (GTI) are up in arms against the institute’s principal over his reported refusal to recognize the elected President of the Staff Association, Delphine Bakker.

The Permanent Representative of St Kitts and Nevis to the OAS recently handed over to Haiti and Chile, the funds Caricom collected for the victims of the earthquakes that struck both countries on January 12 and February 27 respectively.

A  25-year old miner, of Kwakwani, Berbice River is nursing first and third degree burns to the upper parts of his body, after he was set alight by a workmate at a mining camp in the Cuyuni area, Region Seven last week.

By Cathy Richards Following complaints by workers of the Linden municipality that they had not received retroactive payments due to them since 1999, President Bharrat Jagdeo on Saturday promised to see that they are paid.

Kings Duty Free shop has joined several other businesses which have opened their doors to the travelling public at the Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport, Timehri.

Two years after young Arjune Narine Singh was brutally gunned down at an unauthorized Middleton Street road block, police are no closer to finding the killer/s even as his relatives continue to call for justice and harsher penalties for the ranks involved.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited recently made two senior appointments to its management team.

De Hoop farmers are set to benefit from $20M for the purchase of seed paddy and fertilizers, as part of a $300M El Nino assistance package announced by the president.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has committed $25M to building a road from the Linden Highway to St Cuthbert’s Mission to facilitate easier transporting of goods to the coast.

Ansa McAl Trading has donated $155,000 to the University of Guyana Pamela Bourne ‘Donate a tree’ Environmental Project.

Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo sentenced a woman to three years imprisonment after she admitted to a charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking at the New Amsterdam Court on Friday.

A 17-year-old boy was sentenced to three years imprisonment after he admitted to Magistrate Nigel Hawke at the Fort Wellington Court on Thursday that he robbed another youth at knife-point.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud inspected works on the $150M three-door sluice being built on the right bank of the Mahaicony River that is expected to relieve pressure on the Mahaicony Creek.

Two men who reportedly behaved disorderly after one of them was slapped with a traffic charge were released on bail on Thursday  when they appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson charged with the offences.

“Angel, good morning, you  looking beautiful,” were the words that landed a man in court on Friday when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson charged with provoking a breach of the peace.