Guyana News

Thirty-one-year-old Quincy Rodney called `Yankee’ or `Que’ of Lot 530 West Ruimveldt was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with the murder of a man.

A 16–year-old girl last evening took her own life by pulling the trigger of her father’s licensed firearm close to her heart.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Monday began ID card distribution for persons registered during last year’s national registration exercise.

Residents of Lima Dam, Mahaica on the East Coast of Demerara could expect work to be undertaken to the road passing through their community in five months.

A 42-year-old fish vendor, who admitted chopping his nephew in  his head with a cutlass, was yesterday sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Yarde says national response needed Several opposition parties have thrown their support behind the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), as the body contemplates its next move in a dispute with the administration over a parcel of land at the corner of Vlissengen Road and Thomas Lands.

A search team was yesterday unable to retrieve the body suspected to be that of 23-year-old Aliya Bulkan who leapt over the Kaieteur Falls on Saturday morning.

Refusing to take part in what they have dubbed a ‘Jim Crow’ court, three opposition members of Parliament (MPs) are distancing themselves from the parliamentary Committee of Privileges that is currently considering a complaint made by government members against MP Debra Backer.

-family believes he was thrown overboard by mutineersBy Shabna Ullah and Sara BharratThe battered, decomposed body of the captain of a fishing vessel, Savie II, was found at the Bush Lot, West Berbice foreshore around 9:45 am yesterday after he disappeared on Friday during a fracas at sea.

Justice Brassington Reynolds yesterday aborted the murder trial of Joanna Danhai, accused of murdering her two children, after a Stabroek News (SN) report transgressed reporting rules pertaining to the voir dire that was being held.

Williamsburg, Corentyne resident Marlon Seetaram who confessed to unlawfully killing his teenage neighbour, who was trying to shield his stepfather from an attack by the convict, was yesterday sentenced to fifteen years by  Justice Winston Patterson.

Rajdai Persaud, whose body was discovered in a trench not far from her Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo home two days after she went missing, died as a result of compression to her neck and blunt trauma.

-cart off passports, cash Armed bandits confronted two men including a Surinamese in a yard at Enterprise on Tuesday night and after ordering them into the house escaped with their passports and cash.

After several weeks of no new confirmations, the number of H1N1 cases in Guyana has moved from 17 to 19 within the past few days, and results are pending for several other samples.

In the Tuesday, November 10, 2009 edition of Stabroek News under the headline `‘Lonely’ man remanded on carnal knowledge charge’, attorney-at-law Sase Gunraj was incorrectly listed as the attorney for the accused.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday mounted a specific intervention with a human rights focus in “D” Division (West Demerara/East Bank Essequibo) and this is to be done in all other policing divisions.

The lifeless body of a 73-year-old man was yesterday afternoon discovered in his bed and while the family believes that he died of natural causes, a post-mortem examination will be done later this week.

Parabara, an Amerindian community located in the Deep South Rupununi has received a capital grant of $500,000 from the Amerindian ministry to build a walkway and landing.

Police yesterday said that four suspicious men who were challenged in the compound of the Toolsie Persaud Limited (TPL) bond at Providence, East Bank Demerara fled after a guard fired a shot in the air.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s government blamed a  severe storm for the power outage that put the country’s  economic heartland in the dark for more than five hours and  raised doubts about the reliability of its energy grid.