Guyana News

Mayor Hamilton Green mourns the passing of former UWI Vice-Chancellor and celebrated Jamaican Professor Rex Nettleford.

BERLIN (Reuters) – German officials hunting tax  evaders are negotiating to buy Swiss bank account data from a  whistleblower in France, a magazine reported yesterday, after  Berlin declared that banking secrecy was finished.

Two prisoners died early yesterday morning after a fight broke out in the capital offence dormitory of the Georgetown Prisons, leaving relatives of the men in shock and questioning how prison authorities allowed the situation to turn deadly.

A Brazilian miner was shot and killed during a robbery at his mining camp at Oku Backdam, Cuyuni on Wednesday and the perpetrators are still at large.

-camp boss unwilling As the second anniversary of the Lindo Creek mining camp massacre approaches, police yesterday disclosed that investigators have been trying for five months to get an additional DNA sample from Leonard Arokium with no success.

A sobbing Peter Morgan, accused of running a ring in Guyana that trafficked drugs, was sentenced to ten years in prison yesterday afternoon by Judge Edward Korman in a Brooklyn Federal Court, according to a Capitol News report.

In yesterday’s edition on page 1 in the headline ‘Beulah Williams, Rawle Edinboro sacked from city posts’ Stabroek News mistakenly named Rawle Edinboro as the person sacked and also carried his photograph.

Government, in collaboration with the IDB, has started phase two of the Transport Infrastructure Rehabilitation Programme, which will see the rehabilitation and building of 25 bridges and culverts from Timehri to Rosignol.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has expressed concern at a number of issues affecting the proper management of police stations, including the unsatisfactory response to reports of domestic violence and allegations of corruption, at a Conference for Inspectors and Sergeants, held two weeks ago.

The Ministry of Housing says it will be enforcing a strict zero tolerance policy on squatting in Region Three, as it seeks to ensure to regularise those that have already been established.

The Ministry of Home Affairs is re-launching its Community Action Component (CAC) in order to engage youth in community-building projects to deter them from turning to crime.

Police on Thursday recovered a boat and engine with another engine on board, all suspected to have been stolen between Bartica and Parika.

A 14-year-old boy was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $25,000 when he appeared at the Fort Wellington Court before Magistrate Nigel Hawke on a charge of unlawful wounding.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon says that administration is currently constructing a building in the compound of Castellani House that is “intended to house the entity that will be responsible for the intelligence work of the administration of the Guyanese government.”

The Ministry of Housing and Water is moving towards expanding its Geographic Information System (GIS) to integrate data for more effective decision-making in the housing sector.

The Aditya Foundation of Bath Settlement has stepped in to give a 24-year-old resident of Tucber Park, New Amsterdam a chance to live by contributing $200,000 towards an open heart surgery for him.

Relatives of 12-year-old Akeem Henry are desperately looking for him since he disappeared from his Tucville home on Thursday morning.

Elroy Fernandes of Canal No.2, West Bank Demerara was placed on $85,000 bail yesterday when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court after allegedly converting to his own use a quantity of food that he was asked to sell.

-Carrington CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington has disclosed that the Community will be engaged for the long-term in Haiti’s recovery and reconstruction, a news release from the secretariat said.

A Number 28 Village, West Berbice resident was denied his pre-trial freedom when he appeared at the Fort Wellington Court charged with chopping his sister.