Guyana News

Police on Wednesday arrested three men who attempted to rob a West Demerara businessman.

KAMPALA, (Reuters) – The leadership of Uganda’s  ruling party has endorsed President Yoweri Museveni as its  candidate for the next presidential election in 2011, a senior  party official said on Tuesday. 

-surpasses $86.4b estimate The GRA says it set a new record in revenue collection this year, although it continues to be challenged by some sections of the private sector engaged in tax evasion.

Twenty-three-year-old Paul Charles of Foulmouth, Essequibo River, was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court over the murder of a 50-year-old boat operator.

Hits and Jams entertainer Dwight Ferguson was robbed of $1M in the city yesterday afternoon.

Two armed men shot and wounded a gold miner outside of German’s Restaurant on New Market Street yesterday.

A midday fire yesterday left several persons contemplating where they would be spending the night after the top flat of their two-storey house was completely destroyed and the bottom flat flooded.

–but lauds strides in tertiary education Education Minister Shaik Baksh says he is concerned with some aspects of the University of Guyana’s Strategic Plan, but he will be engaging the university on his objections first.

PPP for year-long celebration of 60th anniversary Describing the last year as one of “mixed fortunes,” PPP General Secretary Donald Ramotar yesterday said national security has improved while the country was spared the worst effects of the international crises among states in the region.

The authorities are continuing to monitor the effects of spring tides which began rolling in on Tuesday, as water overtopped several sections of the seawall situated aback villages along the East Coast of Demerara yesterday for a second day.

Police are still hunting the robbers who invaded Engineering Construction Cooperative (ECC) on Tuesday escaping with several million worth of booty in a boat along the Demerara River.

Dr Mahendra Chand, who is facing disciplinary action over his treating of a tortured teen while the teen’s head was covered with a bag, has submitted a response to the findings of the Medical Council of Guyana, according to Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy who said he has seen the response.

Travelspan GT Inc has assured passengers scheduled to fly to Toronto with a Titan Tours flight on January 6 and 13 that their flights are on schedule.

Lennox Hope of Lamaha Springs was pronounced dead on arrival when he was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital on Tuesday after a column concrete fell on his head as he was assisting his aunt to hang a blanket on the clothes line.

-public-spirited persons apprehended him Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday ordered that a 30-year-old father of two be remanded to prison when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly snatching a boy’s gold chain at the Main Street Lime.

“Ah really sorry cause she is only five” lamented 25-year-old Maxwell Francisco shortly before he was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday for allegedly having sex with a child.

Police have arrested the hire car driver who hit Vibert Sam on Boxing Night before escaping.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The eight American civilians  killed in a suicide bombing at a military base in southeastern  Afghanistan yesterday were all CIA agents, CNN reported,  citing an unnamed senior U.S.

Two men are in the Georgetown Public Hospital nursing gunshot wounds after a robbery on Tuesday night.

RAMADI, Iraq,  (Reuters) – Twin suicide bombs killed  at least 26 and wounded more than 100 in Iraq’s Sunni Arab  heartland yesterday and a roadside bomb killed seven pilgrims  returning from a major Shi’ite Muslim religious festival.