Guyana News

A prominent Bartica businessman and another man were allegedly brutalised by ranks last Saturday night.

Police in Berbice have launched a manhunt for two bandits who robbed a Canje businessman early yesterday morning.

Of the Maduni, Lama, Kofi and Cunha sluices and the spill weir at Land of Canaan which drain the East Demerara Water Conser-vancy (EDWC), only the ones at Maduni and Lama are currently functioning at their full capacity, Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud told the National Assembly on Thursday.

Three of the eight people injured in Sunday’s accident at Bee Hive, East Coast Demerara (ECD) are recovering in the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Three men are in police custody following a robbery committed on a man at Hyde Park, Timehri on Sunday evening.

Shazaad Shaeed, 48, of 15 Supply, Mahaica who was burnt with acid two weeks ago is thankful that he has regained his sight but is now worried about his skin which he says is “raw round the eye and it does rank [has an odour]”.

A 15-year-old who sustained broken legs and shoulder after she was hit by a speeding car while waiting on a bus in front of her school is now a patient in the High Dependency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Floyd Haynes, of the Washington-based Newton Group, has been identified as the person who commissioned the recent Caribbean Development Research Ser-vices Inc (CADRES) poll.

Employees of the Agricola Post Office arrived at work yesterday morning only to discover that three safes were broken into and an undisclosed amount of cash was missing.

A 48-year old carpenter of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD) was yesterday charged with the murder of another carpenter, whose lifeless body was discovered in a house at Mon Repos last Monday.

The Ministry of Health and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Guianas yesterday inked a $12 million agreement to facilitate a greater understanding of the health implications of exposure to mercury among vulnerable members in the mining community.

A father who was accused of unlawfully assaulting his daughter was placed on $20,000 bail yesterday by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.

Anuradha Dawan, eight years old, clung to life in the ICU at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) for three days before succumbing to injuries she sustained after being hit by a bus last Friday.

Five persons including the driver of motor car PLL 8082 escaped with just a dousing when the car careened off the road and landing in a trench at Linden.

– Kaveena cremated The body of Kaveena Ramnauth, the ten-year-old girl who died in her family’s rice field, was cremated yesterday after a post-mortem examination revealed that her cause of death was drowning.

– court hears A man who was accused of stealing over 1,000 CDs from his employer was granted $100,000 bail yesterday by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.

A man was remanded to prison yesterday by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson when he appeared before her charged with using threatening language to the mother of his child and assaulting her.

The seven-year-old Hopetown, West Berbice girl whose stepmother physically abused her last Thursday and caused her to be hospitalized was placed in a home on the Corentyne yesterday.

A post-mortem examination (PM) which was performed on the body of Evelyn Daniels, the woman who was found dead with her throat slit at the Amerindian Hostel in the city last week, gave her cause of death as haemorrhage and shock due to laceration.

Minister of Education Shaik Baksh said strong disciplinary action would be taken against teachers who smoke in school.