Guyana News

The two-week-long High Court trial of Nandkumar Singh who was accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and her partner ended yesterday when the jury returned a verdict of not guilty of murder on both counts but guilty of manslaughter.

A second person is before the court accused of breaking into North Point Imports on King Street earlier this month and carting off with over $5M in appliances, cash, cell phones and accessories.

A Zeelugt resident appeared in court yesterday after ranks from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) searched his home and reportedly found a quantity of cocaine and marijuana.

A 32-year-old man of Linden/Soesdyke Highway yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of raping a 14-year-old girl.

Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday fined a labourer $10,000 with an alternative of three months imprisonment after he admitted to having a quantity of narcotics in his possession.

Five of the Mazaruni prison escapees appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with escaping from lawful custody.

Three armed, masked gunmen raided a home at Gangaram, East Canje around 8.40 pm on Sunday and made off with a small quantity of cash and jewellery after terrorizing occupants.

Veteran journalist and Stabroek News columnist Cecil Griffith died last evening at the St.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee says he is dissatisfied with the conditions under which some members of the Guyana Police Force are working, and added that while the government is in no position to enhance remuneration some effort will be made to improve their situation.

With the commissioning of its new $53 million warehousing facility at Strand, New Amsterdam, Geddes Grant (GG) will no longer find it difficult to provide a wide range of products to its Berbice customers.

Students and teachers of the Lachmansingh Primary School had to scamper for cover during last week when they were attacked by bees that are nested in a tyre between clumps of bushes on the school’s fence.

Yesterday, even as some city businesses were complying fully with the new list of Value Added Tax (VAT) zero-rated items, others lagged behind.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee said the agreement for the US$20 million Inter-American Development Bank loan would be signed this week, paving the way for the implementation of the citizens’ security programme, which includes the reform of the police force.

Twelve persons won prizes in the Dorado Speed Swim Club raffle which was drawn at the Colgrain Poolside on Sunday.

A new Chinese company in Guyana intends to focus on ‘finished’ lumber and is investing US$4.5M in a wood-processing plant to process logs cut from the Jaling concession.

US authorities have refused Guyanese drug accused businessman Roger Khan’s request for a laptop computer stating that it would be a potential security breach at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre (MCC).

In an article in yesterday’s Chronicle headlined “Abuse of press freedom – responsible reporting lacking” Dr Prem Misir stated that the Stabroek News’s limited circulation and limited reach drove the Government Information Agency (GINA) to withdraw the placement of advertisements from that newspaper.

Six of the persons involved in the two-car, East Bank Demerara accident, which claimed the life of a 64-year-old woman on Sunday evening, are in the hospital receiving treatment.

A baby boy was yesterday burned to death at his Leguan, Essequibo River home.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday held discussions with Russian President Vladimir Putin and RUSAL owner Oleg Deripaska at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russian news agency Itar-Tass said.