News

Burglars cleared out the showcases and drawers of the Digicel outlet at La Penitence market early yesterday morning in what was reportedly a nearly hour-long attack.

The plastic wrapping of passengers’ baggage and extra security are some of the measures international airlines servicing Guyana have been looking at in order to thwart drug smugglers.

Two days after he was arrested for a robbery and then rearrested after escaping from custody, the relatives of a Bartica youth are alleging he was beaten by the police and are calling on the Acting Commissioner of Police to investigate.

Suriname authorities believe that some Guyanese living in the Dutch-speaking country are intermediaries for drugs and arms traffickers in the two countries, a source at a news agency in Paramaribo said.

Transport Minister Robeson Benn says as it stands there are no plans to review the countdown feature on the traffic lights in the city and its environs, since it is more a matter of the discipline which motorists must exercise.

Records at the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) show that VAT registered businesses are earning far more profit than they did under the Consumption Tax regime, GRA Commissioner-General Khurshid Sattaur said in a recent press release from his office.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary, Dr Roger Luncheon announced last Thursday that Cabinet had given its no-objection to the printing of traffic tickets at a cost of over $17M under the purview of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

The Dharm Shala is again making its annual appeal for assistance in money or kind during the festive season to enable it to continue its humanitarian work.

A man who allegedly had ganja in his possession when police searched him appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday and was remanded.

The Guyana government will not wait much longer for a response from Venezuela in relation to the invasion of this country’s Cuyuni waters on November 15 by the Venezuelan military.

The three Barama workers who allegedly took turns raping and sodomising a 17-year-old dryer female operator several days ago at the company’s Land of Canaan plywood plant, were brought to the Providence Magistrate’s Court yesterday to answer joint charges.

Police are looking for a man who raped a three-year-old girl after drinking with her parents at Baramita, North West District yesterday.

A source from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) has confirmed that the AK-47 rifle, which was found during a police raid on Thursday, does not belong to the army.

A stevedore employed at the John Fernandes Limited Water Street wharf died early yesterday morning at the Georgetown hospital following a freak accident on Thursday.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) will host a symposium on Monday in celebration of International Human Rights Day and to commemorate the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Guyana.

Thirteen health workers from several hinterland communities who were recently trained in information technology (IT) were urged to incorporate the new knowledge in their work.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee on Thursday tabled the Immigration (Amendment) Bill 2007 that will allow Caricom nationals a permit to enter and remain in Guyana for a period of six-months.

In the absence of a range of required facilities and public support systems, autistic children in Guyana have largely been forgotten, but some parents and educators are working to change this.

Some Like it Hot, the acclaimed American comedy, is the choice of the National Art Gallery, Castellani House for next week’s Classic Tuesdays’ film.

fter nearly three months of dry season, residents of Mahaicony Creek are fearful that there would be a repeat of the flooding they have now become used to, in the upcoming rainy season.