Guyana News

Awaiting a decision by the Finance Ministry to finally pay benefits due to him, retired judge Jainarayan Singh Jnr has been forced to return to private practice to sustain himself.

Fish shop owner granted $500,000 bail over felonious wounding and discharging firearmThe owner of the White Castle Fish Shop, who was involved in the shooting ruckus last Tuesday at the National Gymnasium, was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $500,000 when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

– police The finance controller of the Princess Hotel was held with nearly $3 million (US$14,000) yesterday morning, minutes before he was scheduled to leave the country on a Delta Airlines flight bound for New York, the police have said.

-Misir University of Guyana (UG) Pro-Chancellor Dr Prem Misir yesterday said that lecturer Evan Persaud would not be denied due process in an investigation of complaints that he victimised students and engaged in inappropriate behaviour.

A nine-year-old boy was yesterday admitted a patient to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) suffering a broken left arm and bruises about his body after being involved in a midday hit-and-run accident at Agricola, East Bank Demerara.

Army probe inconclusiveThe Guyana Defence Force (GDF) says that its investigations into the Hog Island boat collision that left two men dead and a ten-year-old boy missing was inconclusive.

Mark Archibald of Number 42 Village, West Coast Berbice became blind while he was working in the army a few years ago, but he plants and rears chickens to make a living.

The Ethnic Relations Com-mission (ERC) yesterday said that it has appointed three special rapporteurs to deal with three issues including the determination of whether Linden has been discriminated against by the government because of its ethnic composition.

Contractors tasked with completing capital works within the various administrative regions were urged to complete them within the allotted timeframe as some 64% of the capital budget of $1.8 billion for 2009 has been expended thus far on works in the ten administrative regions across the country.

-reports down Three months after a gastro-like infection surfaced in the North West District and claimed the lives of several persons in the Moruca sub-region, the results of tests conducted on some afflicted persons are still being analyzed.

Six men wanted in connection with a string of recent crimes committed in Kaneville, East Bank Demerara were arrested by police yesterday afternoon at a house in Albouystown, Georgetown.

– police scouts invested Commissioner of Police Henry Greene has urged residents of Linden and Region Ten to work together to improve their livelihood by reducing criminal activities, which he said could be realized with the newly installed Linden Station Management Committee (LSMC).

Chief Justice (Ag) Ian Chang yesterday lifted an injunction barring three media houses from linking Office of the President (OP) Press and Publicity Officer Kwame McCoy to a controversial audio recording of alleged child solicitation after his lawyers failed to file a summons to continue the restriction.

The roadway between the Timehri Prisons Sports Club and Jubilee Resort will be closed to vehicular traffic between 2.30 pm and 6 pm today to facilitate an exercise by the Cheddi Jagan Airport Corporation.

Winston Murray, PNCR Member of Parliament, urged members of the National Youth Development Network (NYDN) to remain “a non-political group” but encouraged them to advocate broader youth participation in the various decision making forums in the country.

Chairman of Region Three, Julius Faerber says that he has not yet received a report on the cause of the fire that destroyed the region’s Education Office earlier this month.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) concluded a five-day Customs-house Broker Training Workshop last Friday to improve service to importers and exporters.

Forty-one-year-old Ronald Hamblin of Amelia’s Ward, Linden was yesterday remanded to prison while a 13-year-old boy was ordered to be kept in police custody shortly after they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on narcotics and ammunition charges.

An Amelia’s Ward man was fined a total of $85,000 after he pleaded guilty to two traffic offences and disorderly behaviour when he appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Christiansburg Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

In July last year Pilot James Berisha and his daughter were told that their homeland, Kosovo did not exist.