News

A boat, transporting goods and staff attached to Toolsie Persaud Ltd’s (TPL) Anarika location, sank in the Essequibo River early Diwali morning resulting in the death of a 19-year-old man.

The Guyana Power and Light Incorporated is hard pressed to convince its thousands of consumers on both sides of the Berbice River that the spate of unscheduled and disruptive power outages over the past month has been due only to maintenance works and mechanical problems as officially stated.

Domestic violence has shattered the already tragic lives of two young girls leaving their mother dead, their father in jail and their two teenage siblings quibbling over their now uncertain future.

Caribbean indigenous banks seeking to establish relationships with counterparts in the United States will come under heavy scrutiny and a lot will ride on the country of origin’s anti-money laundering performance.

In a report headlined `Chief Justice says allegations he is pro-Gov’t unjust, factually incorrect’ in last Sunday’s paper Chief Justice Carl Singh is quoted as saying that the non-support of Opposition Leader Robert Corbin for his nomination as Chancellor has weakened his position and that he considers accusations made by the PNCR leader of him as pro-government unjust and factually incorrect.

A cook at a mining camp in the North West District was on Sunday knifed to death by another man, police yesterday said in a statement.

Police on Sunday afternoon conducted a search on the premises of a businessman at Eteringbang, Cuyuni River and seized a quantity of cocaine and marijuana as well as an unlicensed .380 Taurus pistol along with 12 matching rounds.

A delegation from Trinidad & Tobago is in Guyana for a meeting to examine ways to implement President Bharrat Jagdeo’s initiative to reduce food insecurity and poverty in the region.

Acting Commissioner of Police Henry Greene clarified yesterday that he was quoted out of context in the Stabroek News as saying that the police had not tortured the two Buxtonians, Victor Jones and Patrick Summer.

Police yesterday morning in Charlestown shot an alleged thief twice in his back after he and several others reportedly broke into a businessman’s workshop some time between Saturday and yesterday morning and carted away several pieces of mining equipment and other items.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee on Saturday appealed to members of the Prison Visiting Committee (PVC) to pay more attention to their role of highlighting the ills in the prison system and making recommendations for improvements.

Relatives of the missing Annandale fishermen said they are awaiting word from the Home Affairs Ministry on the exhumation of what could be the remains of their loved ones.

Retailers and wholesalers found selling improperly labelled food items especially wheaten flour and powered milk or repackaging them under unsanitary conditions, will be prosecuted and their products seized.

Vendors in the lane where a fire, believed to be of electrical origin destroyed four stalls and damaged two others, were yesterday back at work, but were tightlipped on their losses insisting that it made no sense if they lamented such.

Guyana Defence Force Brigadier (ret) David A Granger believes that narcotics and fuel smuggling are corrupting Guyana on a large scale and he is calling on the security forces to spend time suppressing these rather than pursuing street criminals who are mere products of the more lucrative illegal trades.

Lightning killed a 14-year-old boy yesterday at the Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara (WCD) seaside.

The recent murder of nine-year-old Sade Stoby has highlighted the need for DNA testing in the investigation of sexual and other crimes.

Speeding claimed yet another life on one of the country’s roadways, this time that of a 40-year-old man of Nurney Village, Corentyne, Berbice.

Guyana joined with countries around the world in remembering the men and women who served in the two World Wars as Remembrance Day was observed yesterday.

Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA), former Chancellor of the Judiciary, Cecil Kennard last week Thursday handed over the report into the killing of Buxtonian Donna Herod to Director of Public Prosecu-tion and recommended that a coroner’s inquest be speedily held into the matter.