Guyana News

The body of a man was found on the Pomeroon River bank on Wednesday shortly after a boat he operated was spotted drifting in the river.

A mysterious fire yesterday destroyed a small part of a newspaper vendor’s residence in Sophia.

An 11-year-old student of the New Amsterdam (NA) Primary School in Chapel Street had to be hospitalized and given oxygen after she was badly beaten by another student last Friday.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues met with Waini, Region One residents to discuss the process of obtaining land titles for these communities.

An interfaith service is the Deputy Regional Executive Officer’s (DREO) and the mash committee’s choice of a perfect start for the Region Two events preceding Mashramani 2007 In an interview, DREO Carl Parker said that the event cannot be a one-man show and as a result his committee includes members of the business community, the department of education, the police force, the fire service, the New Opportunity Corps, officers of the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) and the general public.

Bosai Minerals Group Ltd and Canadian firm IAMGOLD will have to wait until mid February to get an answer from the government on a proposed US$46M deal to sell IAMGOLD’s 70% stake in Omai Bauxite Mining Inc (OBMI) and Omai Services Inc to Bosai.

A 28-year-old man appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday on larceny and robbery under arms charges and was remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

Magistrate Kim Kyte-John on Tuesday remanded the couple charged with the Christmas Day murder at Blairmont and adjourned the case to February 13, the date set for the beginning of the preliminary inquiry (PI).

Two men accused of raping and robbing a Rosignol woman were granted bail on Tuesday when they appeared before Magistrate Kim Kyte-John to answer to the charges at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court.

Magistrate Chandra Sohan committed two men accused of murder to stand trial at the next sitting of the High Court in Berbice when they on Tuesday appeared before him at the Whim Magistrate’s Court.

Magistrate Kim Kyte-John committed murder accused Sean Isaacs to stand trial at the next sitting of the High Court in Berbice.

Magistrate Kim Kyte-John on Tuesday remanded to prison a man who appeared before her at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court to answer to a charge of attempted murder.

Drug accused businessman, Roger Khan was yesterday transferred from the Nassau County Correctional centre, a state prison to a US federal facility.

The Aircraft Owners Associa-tion of Guyana (AOAG) yesterday said there was an urgent need for modern air traffic control systems at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri and that the government should expedite this.

Police were summoned on Tuesday to a city school after one of the students was found with a quantity of marijuana and it was later discovered that a gang was operating from the school peddling not only drugs but also stolen items.

An Airy Hall, Mahaicony family is now homeless after a fire gutted their home and a fire tender from Georgetown arrived one hour after the blaze started.

The United States (US) Embassy says under the recently passed Adam Walsh Act all family-based immigrant visa petitions will be screened to root out petitioners convicted of crimes against children.

The Inter School/Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship (IS/IVCF) of Guyana says it is starting this year’s agenda of moral and social development activities with a Thanksgiving Service, in this its 50th year.

To date, Barama Company Limited has not made public its plans to get back on track with certification from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) after the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) announced that the company had been suspended.

Government has decided to start working on the National Agriculture Diversifica-tion Strategy using its own resources while still negotiating with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for assistance for same.