News

Murder-accused Owen Belfield yesterday testified that there was calm in the prisoners’ dorm prior to the deadly fire at the Camp Street jail that claimed the lives of 17 inmates.

Tiger Pond and Meriwau in the Rupununi have been hard hit by the ongoing drought and the Guyana Water Inc is taking steps to alleviate the situation.

As the probe into the murder of farmer Anthony Breedy continues, investigators on Thursday evening recovered a bloodstained shirt belonging to the prime suspect, hours after his two accomplices were arrested at Ithaca, West Bank Berbice.

Troy Abrams, the surviving accused in the armed robbery of America Street moneychangers, and the main witness for his defence yesterday gave contradictory accounts of what they were doing at the time of the attack.

The Heads of Mission from Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom will be hosting a Joint Press Conference on Monday to discuss the observation process of yesterday’s Local Government Elections.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) has denied that a senior officer refused to submit information requested by the Board as alleged in several recent reports in Kaieteur News.

President David Granger on Thursday paid tribute to James McFarlane Corry who was born in 1850 and is considered the ‘Father of Local Government in British Guiana’.

Guyana will soon establish a diplomatic mission in Geneva, GINA said.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) yesterday said that it will write President David Granger over what it said was the “protracted delay” in the start of wage negotiations and over recent statements made by the Minister of Finance.

An Albouystown man was yesterday released on bail after denying charges that he had possession of an illegal gun and ammunition more than a year and a half ago.

An ice cream vendor was yesterday remanded to prison after a court heard that he was found with over one kilo of cannabis.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Europe’s most wanted man was captured after a shootout in Brussels in a major coup for authorities investigating November’s Islamic State attacks on Paris.

A Kitty woman was yesterday found guilty of wounding a former workmate with a beer bottle during a brawl at the popular Seeta’s Bar in Kitty.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Burundi is gripped by terror amid continued human rights abuses and the small central African state is on the brink of a sudden escalation of violence to “massive proportions,” the United Nations human rights chief told the Security Council yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors yesterday unveiled charges against a China-born woman involved with two organizations focused on the United Nations as part of an ongoing investigation into a scheme to pay bribes to a former U.N.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the former Brazilian president under investigation in a sweeping corruption investigation, said yesterday that Latin America’s largest economy needs to resume growth rapidly to avert job losses.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., (Reuters) – A Florida jury yesterday awarded Hulk Hogan $115 million with the possibility of more after finding the Gawker website violated his privacy by publishing a sex tape of the celebrity wrestler.

(Trinidad Guardian) The International Monetary Fund (IMF), which concluded its latest mission to T&T on Tuesday, said the economy was confronting a major shock as a result of the sharp fall in energy prices but was not in crisis.

These results have been taken from polling stations visited by Stabroek News last night and this morning following the close of voting in the Local Government Elections.

These results have been taken from polling stations visited by Stabroek News last night and this morning following the close of voting in the Local Government Elections.