Guyana News

-says cops had written statement and asked him to sign Two weeks after he was admitted to the Georgetown Hospital, the teen whose genitals were set alight by policemen during an interrogation was yesterday discharged into the custody of his parents.

Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang yesterday granted pre-trial liberty to the two policemen implicated in the torture of a teen boy while he was in their custody.

Another man wanted in connection with last Wednesday’s attacks in the city turned himself over to the police yesterday and was up to press time still is custody assisting with investigations.

A father of three of Murphy Dam, Rosignol, West Coast Berbice lost his life when a truck collided with a horse he was riding, killing the animal as well.

Courts brought Christmas to life last evening at its annual concert and tree lighting ceremony, where it doled out $1M to a customer who was the latest winner of its ‘Stash of Cash’ promotion.

The dossier on government’s alleged human rights abuses that was being compiled by the joint opposition is complete and will be made public on Tuesday, November 17.

-autopsy Shankar Kumar, also called “Coolie,” the Uitvlugt sea captain whose body was discovered at a West Berbice foreshore, died from drowning.

A taxi driver was stabbed to the neck and robbed of a cellular phone and $6000 on the Crane Access Road by two men who posed as passengers.

-Jagdeo President Bharrat Jagdeo is maintaining that he will determine whether further action is needed on the pending police torture report, but assures that findings of the internal probe would be made available for members of the public to judge for themselves.

– new police prosecutors warned More than fifty per cent of the witnesses in cases brought against police officers in the magistrates’ courts fail to attend trial or opt not to give evidence, creating difficulties for the prosecution, Police Commissioner Henry Greene said yesterday.

-Luncheon tells parliamentary committee Chairman of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) Board, Dr Roger Luncheon has vowed that the institution will not fade away, even as it continues to he hard-hit by poor compliance which has resulted in questions about its ability to sustain itself.

The Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) yesterday conducted a national consultation with local government elections stakeholders on issues associated with the delimitation of constituencies.

New contracts were yesterday signed with two security companies to provide services at state properties and facilities across the country.

Magistrate Ann McLennan on Wednesday sentenced a Wismar man to two years imprisonment for aiding and abetting in the armed robbery of two nurses at the Upper Demerara Hospital.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday ordered that a man be remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court for allegedly being found with an unlicensed firearm and a quantity of matching ammunition.

The mother of Marvin Smith, the 18-year-old who was murdered on October 8 this year, yesterday refuted statements made by the police on the character of her son.

Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday granted bail in the sum of $250,000 to the former Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) President Colwyn King who is charged with carnal knowledge of a girl under 15 years of age.

Commuters who use the Mackenzie/Wismar Bridge are calling on the authorities to extend the current schedule for opening which has created extensive traffic jams and congestion along Burnham Drive at Wismar.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has launched its ‘Catch the Waive’ promotion aimed at giving customers who were disconnected prior to October 31 and those with illegal connections an easy way to put themselves in order.

A young woman was found hanging in the bathroom of her Eccles home yesterday, a day after an unsuccessful suicide attempt.