Guyana News

LONDON, (Reuters) – The Court of Appeal gave the  go-ahead yesterday for first ever criminal trial to be heard  in front of a judge without a jury in England and Wales.

A Hopetown, West Berbice pensioner who invested in 105 baby chicks as well as over $30,000 in feed since April 28, is distressed since she will not be able to recover her cost as the birds have stopped growing.

A security guard at a lumber yard at Wismar and a Ministry of Agriculture driver appeared at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday accused of inflicting grievous bodily harm on a man they supposedly were apprehending after he had allegedly stolen some lumber.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The woman who killed banker  Edouard Stern, a banking scion and one of France’s richest men,  after sado-masochistic sex and an argument over $1 million was  sentenced yesterday to 8-1/2 years in prison for murder.

Phase II of the Transportation Infrastructure Rehabilitation Programme is set to begin shortly with major works slated to be done along the Timehri to Rosignol roadways after contracts were signed yesterday.

-relatives fear he may have become ‘disoriented’ A 66-year-old US-based Guyanese has been missing since Friday following a visit to a family home in Buxton and relatives fear that he may have become “disoriented” and lost his way since he left Guyana over forty years ago and had only made two short trips back here.

-had just dropped off child at school A 25-year-old mother of four died on the spot when she was struck down by a car while attempting to cross the Providence Public Road around lunchtime yesterday.

Parmanand Dass, one of the victims of the four-vehicle East Coast crash on Saturday night, succumbed to his injuries yesterday afternoon in the presence of relatives and friends at the High Dependency Unit (HDU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Tributes were offered last evening to Pandit Prakash Gossai who is to be cremated in New York today and on Tuesday President Bharrat Jagdeo said that the death has left the Office of the President poorer.

Anthony Singh, the minibus conductor who was shot by a bandit on Tuesday night is in the male open ward of the Georgetown hospital after doctors removed the bullet lodged in his leg.

Four contracts were signed last Friday at the Ministry of Finance for the construction of Belle West Housing Scheme Primary School in Region Three, Bath Settle-ment Nursery School in Region Five and the rehabilitation of South/East Triumph roads in Region Four and Resource Street, Miss Phoebe in Region Six.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday granted self-bail to a civil engineer and his brother who are accused of erecting a makeshift concrete blockade outside the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) office in April.

Rehabilitation works have started at the Palms Geriatric Institution. According to a Government Information Agency (GINA) press release workers are currently erecting two new reservoirs to boost water supply and they will soon build a recreation facility which is expected to boast a TV room, a games room, a gym and a canteen.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson has adjourned the Oliver Hinckson advocating a terrorist act preliminary inquiry (PI) to June 29 for decision on whether the state’s application for the case to be reopened will be granted.

Delon Haynes of 66 Noitgedacht, Mackenzie, Linden was placed on $150,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court yesterday  accused of the indictable offence  of receiving stolen property.

Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang has set July 28 for hearing in the Alliance For Change (AFC) election petition case even as the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) stands unrepresented in the matter.

Opposition Leader Robert Corbin says the Guyana Elec-tions Commission (GECOM) should be made to answer why it has not yet published the National Register of Registrants (NRR).

-man on $50,000 bail Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson on Tuesday granted a 20-year-old man accused of stealing a quantity of Euros from a woman $50,000 bail when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Following disruptions in voice and data services on Thursday, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) voiced concerns and issued a press release which has led to the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) stating that it is being victimized and threatened by the PUC.

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