Guyana News

Three men have been arrested for the murder of Allan Welch who was beaten to death at 14 Miles Issano on Tuesday.

The Preliminary Inquiry into the first witness tampering charge against Chandra Narine Sharma did not get underway as scheduled yesterday as Special Prosecutor Sanjeev Datadin made an application for the magistrate to recuse herself from the matter.

– alleged plotter says in taped conversation One of the men accused of planning to blow up New York’s John F.

Five police ranks, returning from the funeral of slain colleague Vickram Singh, sustained minor injuries last evening after their bus was hit by another around the Mahaica, East Coast Demerara area.

Still grieving over the loss of their son in a horrific smash-up at Craig last month the parents of Anthony Beepat were terrorised by bandits at their Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara home early yesterday morning.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has been named to a committee within Caricom which will review proposals on regional governance ahead of a key meeting in September.

The ‘Plastic City’, West Coast Demerara carpenter who was battered by robbers early Sunday morning and later succumbed in the hospital died of congestive heart failure due to a diabetic condition, an autopsy found yesterday.

Divisional Commander David Ramnarine says that he is unaware whether the rank involved in the Bartica brutality matter was officially appointed a cadet officer but one of the victims, Winston Miller Snr is insisting that he saw him on television.

Some South Ruimveldt vendors located at the corner of Aubrey Barker Road and Manatee Place yesterday complied with a request by the Public Works Ministry and voluntarily removed from the government reserves.

A man who pleaded guilty to breaking into the La Belle Hotel and stealing a quantity of liquor was yesterday sentenced to four years imprisonment by acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.

Leola Narine who was charged in 2008 with embezzlement by clerk walked out of the Christianburg Magistrate’s court on Wednesday a free woman after Magistrate Ann McLennan dismissed the case against her for want of prosecution.

Construction work on three bridges in the Annandale/Buxton area on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) over the past several weeks has created traffic chaos in the area, especially during the early morning rush hour.

Minister of Housing and Water Irfaan Ali along with officials from the Region Five RDC and GuySuCo’s Blairmont Estate on Tuesday discussed plans to regularise and relocate residents of the Blathylock squatter settlement.

Doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital were last evening closely monitoring the condition of a 12-year-old boy who came into contact with a high voltage electrical wire while playing a game of football in the city.

The Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence is inviting nominations for its 2011 Awards.

Director of the Medical Laboratory of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation,  Dr.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) has joined with the Guyana Police Force in mourning the loss of four of its ranks within the last week and called for adequate compensation for their families.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Ten people pleaded guilty yesterday to being agents for Russia while living undercover in  the United States as part of a spy swap between the U.S.

A group of underprivileged and single-parent women from Kwakwani will soon benefit from Information Technology and Office Procedure training to make them employable.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – CNN has fired a senior  editor for Middle East news after she published a Twitter  message that said she respected a Lebanese Shi’ite cleric  branded a terrorist by the United States, U.S.