News

There has been a 26.6% decrease in murders in 2007 as compared to last year and an overall decrease in criminal activities.

BOSAI Minerals Group (Guyana) Inc (BMGG) has sold 285,000 metric tonnes (MT) of RASC, chemical and cement grade bauxite to Europe and North America and plans to increase the height of its dryer and kiln ‘stack’ to reduce dust emissions, in the light of its extended production targets for 2008.

Police are probing allegations that students of a city primary school were sexually molested by a businessman.

The man who allegedly cut off the head of another for no apparent reason last week appeared on Tuesday in the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court charged with murder.

Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday fined a Vreed-en-Hoop man $15,000 after he admitted walking into a Digicel outlet and threatening to kill the sales representative if he was not refunded for a phone he had previously purchased there.

One day after his release from hospital David Leander called David Zammett and `Biscuit’ was yesterday read a charge of murder for the slaying of Agriculture Minister Satyadeow `Sash’ Sawh and his siblings last year.

Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday sentenced a teenage “goldsmith” who admitted that he conned persons of their jewellery, to two years imprisonment when he appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court.

Relatives of six missing East Coast Demerara fishermen were assisted yesterday with an aerial search for their loved ones and two of the families were preparing to check bodies that washed up last week on the Corentyne even as a third corpse was found in the same area during the day.

Police yesterday said that since drug-indicted businessman, Roger Khan had been captured by the United States, execution-style killings in Guyana have dropped considerably from 43 last year to 12 this year.

Acting Commissioner of Police Henry Greene yesterday said that the Guyana Police Force (GPF) did not torture the two Buxtonians who had levelled accusations against officers, and that the force would meet fire with fire when it encountered gunmen.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud yesterday sent the Forest Bill to a special select committee for further consultation after Govern-ment MPs voted down a petition calling for the bill to be withdrawn.

The Editor of the Evening News, Anthony Downes, died suddenly yesterday morning of a suspected heart attack.

The National Assembly last evening approved a motion to allow the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Constitutional Reform to decide how parliament could amend the constitution to increase the number of members on the Police Service Commission (PSC) from five to eight.

Due to a shortage of fuel at the Guyoil Company at Heathburn, East Bank Berbice since last Wednesday a number of agricultural operations on the Corentyne have been affected.

Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Manniram Prashad on Monday launched an overland tour to Kaieteur National Park in support of domestic tourism here.

Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green said Deepavali provides an opportunity for the public to reflect on its words and deeds and to consider ways to connect goodness and light to the environment.

The Alliance for Change (AFC) is urging the public to use the occasion of Diwali to strengthen family ties and social relationships.

The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha says devotees should use the occasion of Deepavali to worship Lakshmi Devi in all her dimensions to strengthen spiritual power which will help them to triumph against all obstacles.

The New Building Society (NBS) has approached the courts asking it to deem a requisition document submitted to its chairman by a group of concerned members requesting another Special General Meeting, as one which does not constitute a proper requisition according to the society’s laws.

President Bharrat Jagdeo said he hopes that citizens will use the occasion of Deepavali to enlighten their lives and devote their energies to developing the country.