Guyana News

Persistent rain over the past two days coupled with a higher spring tide has left several villages along the southern coast of Leguan under several inches of water and residents are blaming the contractors who carried out work on the sea defence sometime ago for doing “shoddy” work.

Howard Watterton walked out of the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday after being freed of a charge of stealing $2.9M in articles, including 500 pennyweights of gold, belonging to Stephen Moore.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Developing countries  had a clear message yesterday for a U.N.

-court hears Sherwin Fields, a twenty-seven-year-old minibus conductor of Lot 44, Fourth Street, Alberttown was on Monday granted bail in the sum of $10,000 when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson for allegedly behaving in a disorderly manner at the Alberttown Police Station.

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – A bomb killed 61 people yesterday at a market in eastern Baghdad’s volatile Sadr City  slum, police said, six days before U.S.

(Antigua Sun) – The United States Government has requested that dismissed Financial Services Regulatory Commission (FSRC) Administrator and CEO Leroy King be held pending extradition to face charges.

Peter’s Hall businessman Dewan Roshan, who was shot during a robbery at his home two Saturdays ago, succumbed to his injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital around 11:30 pm on Tuesday.

‘Angel’ Deanna ‘took the simplest thing and made it into something special’ Relatives of the three persons who perished in the May 27 boat mishap in the Abary Creek are still finding it hard to cope especially since they witnessed it.

MARACAY, Venezuela (Reuters) – The United States and Venezuela will soon reinstate ambassadors expelled in a diplomatic spat last year, a sign of warmer relations between President Hugo Chavez and what he calls the US “empire.”

-vehicle riddled with bullets A man died yesterday on the UNAMCO trail when the vehicle in which he was travelling came under a hail of gunfire from gunmen.

…following October 08 allegation The ex-cop, who allegedly raped a teenage girl last October, was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Two Canadians were discovered with a quantity of cocaine in their luggage at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri yesterday morning and later confessed to swallowing pellets containing the substance.

Guyanese who were deported from Barbados after being subjected to early morning raids will be able to recount their experience to local authorities as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is setting up a mechanism to facilitate this.

Three contracts totalling US$4.2M ($850M) awarded to the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Company Inc (New GPC) for the supply of drugs for the health ministry have been flagged as the latest awards to the supplier which evade the tendering process.

-says time of the essence in sale of properties Judicial Manager Maria van Beek has refuted claims by attorneys for Clico (Guyana) that the company has great liquid cash resources saying that it suffered the blow of the US$34M “badly invested” in The Bahamas, and a great number of policy surrenders earlier this year.

Over the next four months, the army flagship GDFS Essequibo will have major repairs done to its main and auxiliary engines by a Brazilian naval engineering firm.

A Goed Fortuin family was yesterday afternoon plunged into mourning following the drowning of a nine-year-old boy. 

-complainant’s brother also takes poison The brother of the 18-year-old girl, who attempted suicide last Saturday over a rape ordeal, also made an attempt on his own life yesterday and he is currently being monitored at the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was admitted as a patient.

The partly decomposed body of an unidentified man was yesterday found at the back of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.

The partly decomposed body of a woman identified as Shiva Khan was yesterday fished out of a trench at Unity Public Road, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara.