Guyana News

Members of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) last Friday swooped on the New Line Aquaculture Farm at Canal Number Two and conducted exercises which resulted in them seizing an undocumented boat and three vehicles.

Five persons, including three stepchildren of US-based Guyanese, Motilall Singh appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday, charged in relation to his murder and they were remanded to prison.

Three more men said to be involved in the kidnapping of Mahaicony rice farmer Parasaram Ramnarace and an employee on Wednesday, have been arrested.

A probe has been launched into a fire yesterday morning which completely destroyed a three-storey building at Plantain Walk, Pouderoyen which housed the Education and Probation Office of the Ministry of Education as well as other government departments.

A tip which police received yesterday that the body of missing US-based Guyanese Kwame Rumel Jobronewet was buried in the Friendship backdam, East Coast Demerara fell through as their excavation of a section of the area bore no fruit.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said the issue involving 50 Mormons here without permits could have been “better handled” as there was no need for the missionaries to be rounded up and taken into custody even though the police had a right to do so.

Protestors led by the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) continued to picket yesterday outside of the Brickdam office of Education Minister Shaik Baksh, calling for the confirmation of the current Acting Chief Education Officer (CEO), Genevieve Whyte-Nedd.

The delivery of health care in the East La Penitence area and its environs was given a shot in the arm yesterday with the opening of a US$35,000 health centre which was built through a partnership between the government and the US-based New Horizons Guyana programme.

–ranked at 101 of 183 countries in World Bank report Guyana ranked 101 out of 183 economies surveyed in this year’s Doing Business report, the seventh in a series of annual reports prepared under the auspices of the World Bank.

-court told A 32-year-old man, who allegedly obtained $1.5M from a woman by purporting to be in a position to obtain two US student visas for her, was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Government is backing the recent decision by the Police Service Commission to dismiss former Police Superintendent Simon Mc Bean, calling it most reasonable and predictable.

A Guyanese woman accused of wounding a man in Barbados had the charge against her dismissed on Tuesday, but was subsequently handed over to immigration authorities.

A 20-year-old Brazilian man, who allegedly conspired with others to forge a Brazilian passport, was yesterday remanded to prison shortly after he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Amelia’s Ward, Linden will soon be home to a new $5 million police station, a project to be undertaken by the Linden Police Station Management Committee (LPSMC).

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport is inviting applications for Wushu martial arts training.

Two teenaged boys, one charged with the murder of a man at Norton Street, Werk-en-Rust last Saturday and the other charged with aiding and abetting the murder, were both remanded to prison shortly after they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Twenty-eight-year-old Ronaldo Faria of David Street, Kitty, was on Wednesday remanded to prison shortly after he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly converting money given to him by a man for the purchase of a four-wheel All Terrain Vehicle (ATV), to his own use.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Europe could pay poor  countries up to 15 billion euros ($22 billion) a year by 2020 to  persuade them to help battle climate change, the European  Union’s executive arm said yesterday.

A thirty-four-year-old man was granted bail on Wednesday in the sum of $75,000 when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing a chainsaw from his employer.

-paper WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Iran has proposed a global  system to eliminate nuclear weapons, as well as cooperation on  Afghanistan and fighting terrorism, but will not discuss  halting its uranium enrichment programme, an Iranian official was  quoted as saying yesterday.