Guyana News

A tally clerk who allegedly drove his motor car dangerously and struck down a motorcyclist on Durban Street resulting in the man’s death was yesterday remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

Two men accused of robbing a taxi driver of his car were remanded to prison when they appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

An Information Technology (IT) teacher who allegedly had carnal knowledge of a 13-year-old girl was yesterday remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

Climate change reforms are increasingly skewed in the interest of the developed world and Commonwealth finance ministers have a chance to reshape this, President Bharrat Jagdeo said last night while also revealing that he had offered to deploy the country’s entire rainforest in the global warming battle.

Commonwealth Deputy Secretary General, Ransford Smith in his address at the opening of the finance ministers meeting last evening said that Guyana is looking forward with increased confidence.

Stabroek News yesterday protested outside of the Commonwealth finance ministers meeting over the government’s withdrawal of state advertising but its employees were prevented from holding placards in what Editor-in-Chief David de Caires said was a breach of its democratic right.

Two men posing as customers yesterday walked into the Digicel outlet on D’urban Street, and stuck up an employee before escaping with the day’s sales and several high-priced cellular phones.

A businessman early yesterday morning shot and killed one of two gunmen who ambushed him and his son as they arrived at their Lamaha Gardens home in what appeared to be a robbery attempt.

An evening of colour and diversity greeted the delegates at the opening yesterday of the Commonwealth Finance Ministers’ Meeting as performers brought some degree of levity to a meeting weighed down by concerns of small developing states’ preparation for the challenges of climate change.

Commonwealth Deputy Secretary General, Ransford Smith on Sunday said that there is need to find a business strategy to allow the Iwokrama rainforest project to provide for its own sustainability since it is not a question of overseas funding, but the utilization of its own resources.

At least two families of the flood-affected Joe Hook and Grass Hook areas in Mahaica Creek have so far decided to relocate to Hope, East Coast Demerara within three weeks to escape the possible recurrence of a flood.

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) on Friday donated $250,000 in cash and other items to the fire-affected residents at Laing Avenue.

The Government of the United Kingdom and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the implementation of a project to enhance the region’s capacity to deal with climate change in a comprehensive way.

A man is to be charged shortly with the murder of a woman after she died in the hospital on Saturday.

A small aircraft vanished from the Anna Regina airstrip between Sunday and early yesterday morning after landing there.

A 53-year-old man appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday charged with carnal knowledge and buggery of an 11-year-old girl.

Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA), former Chancellor of the Judiciary, Cecil Kennard says that the police report into the killing of Buxtonian, Donna Herod should have been sent to his office first before it went to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

In the interest of transparency and good governance, President Bharrat Jagdeo needs to explain the constitutional mechanism he used to extend the term of the commissioners of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC).

Buoyed by its first successful open heart surgery, the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI) is gearing up to deepen its work here and persons who suffer heart attacks are now being promised care at its facility.

Police intercepted a minibus with a number of Suriname-bound passengers at Weldaad, West Coast Berbice yesterday morning carrying 10 pounds of compressed marijuana.