Guyana News

Five days after a Bartica gold miner was brutally chopped to death by another man during a row over water, police in the area are yet to arrest the killer.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said the schoolyard ecology (SYE) workshop recently hosted for 50 Corentyne Coast environmental club members aims to equip learners with the skills needed to become “schoolyard scientists”.

Dubraj Latchman, 58, of Good Faith, Mahaicony who was robbed by bandits around 4 pm on Monday told Stabroek News yesterday that this is the first time in 30 years that a robbery had occurred in broad daylight in the area.

There was a strange feeling of love in the air last week.

President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), Claude Blackmore stated yesterday that the newly-formed athletic club, Running Braves was not debarred from competing locally but it was, however, ineligible to compete in inter-club meets.

The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) yesterday named a squad of 14 players and six standbys for the upcoming inter-association competition scheduled for February 27-28 and March 2nd.

Coordinator of the just-concluded 2007 Bounty Farm Ltd Mash Handicap Tournament Robert Fernandes has hailed the event a success.

The two finalists in the Annual Mayor’s Cup football tournament will be decided this evening at the GFC ground where an explosive double header is carded.

Jamal Duff and Chelsea Edghill secured the boys and girls’ under-11 titles respectively when the 2007 annual National Sport Commission (NSC) Mashramani table tennis tournament continued at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall yesterday.

Last week’s assault by a cutlass-wielding criminal who injured a student while angrily pursuing a teacher at the St Gabriel’s Primary School in Oronoque Street, Queenstown, has highlighted the threat to safety in this country’s schools.

Bandits armed with guns and cutlasses terrorized two families at Williamsburg Squatting Area, Corentyne on Monday at 9 pm and at 1:45 yesterday morning and made off with almost $3M in jewellery and cash.

Four youths who allegedly broke and entered a video game store and carted off close to $1M worth of items appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan on Monday.

Dear Editor, I welcome the opportunity to continue the dialogue that Mr.

A woman who allegedly tried to post a box containing cocaine to Canada at the Guyana Post Office Corpora-tion in Georgetown was yesterday refused bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

Dear Commissioner General, I must say I support VAT and the efforts yourself and the government are putting into it.

A priest was refused bail by Magistrate Chandra Sohan after he appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court on Friday on a charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

Dear Editor, I wish to write in response to a Kaieteur News Article dated February 12, 2007 “Consultant resigns from Finance Unit

The death of Constable Michau Cort, 27, has prompted Magistrate Chandra Sohan to lambaste the police for not observing the rules governing the schedule for “music boxes” to play at public functions.

Dear Editor, At Matthew 26:11 it is written “For ye have the poor always with you”.

A driver appeared in court on Monday on a robbery under arms charge and was remanded to prison.