News

A brazen gunman who robbed a Berbice family at midday yesterday was forced to drop most of his booty after police and an armed businessman in the area arrived on the scene and gave chase.

Twenty-three-year-old Shazad Ali of Lot 39 A Albion High Reef is the latest person to have died by accident on the Corentyne Highway.

The Ministry of Health is advising parents not to administer cough and cold medication recently withdrawn by the US to children under the age of two.

Bishops’ High School ‘old girls’ and attorneys-at-law Faye Barker and Yogini Lochan met again last week when they were admitted to the local bar.

When I learned, about week before I began my fellowship with the International Center For Journalists, that I would spend three weeks at a newspaper in California, I was elated.

The Ministry of Agriculture on Sunday held a farmers’ open-day and mini-processors’ expo at the Parika market to determine how to further expand the market value for produce.

Police prosecutor Shellon Daniels on Monday withdrew two charges against two men accused of robbing Pure Diamond of $10 million and instituted a charge which includes another man.

The lone survivor of the trio who allegedly robbed King Solomon Royale Cambio recently was last Friday further remanded to prison for robbing a woman.

A Memorandum of Under-standing (MOU) that governs the use of hinterland roads was launched yesterday and the framers hope this will settle conflicts now arising with the use of roads built by loggers.

Forty-two-year-old Sherwin Hodge, who was confronted and beaten by another man early Saturday morning, died shortly after midday yesterday in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown hospital.

One of the two men who were allegedly caught during the early morning robbery at Nedd’s Uplift Bakery at Garnett and Middleton streets last Friday, appeared yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Students from two Linden schools were adjudged the winners yesterday in the primary and secondary segments of the Ministry of Education’s first ever HIV/AIDS Schools Jingle Competition.

A variety of groups met at the Ministry of Home Affairs yesterday and demanded tougher action to halt the road carnage including stiffer penalties for bus drivers and lower tariffs for new tyres.

Bryden and Fernandes said another six lucky shoppers created havoc in the aisles at NS Mattai and Company in the final round of the Breeze Spree like Madness promotion.

Guyana should legislate for union security, according to Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister of Antigua and Bar-buda who declared the Guy-ana Labour Union’s (GLU) 5th Triennial Delegates Conference open on Monday evening at the Tower Hotel.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) is seeking its own chief scrutineer for the upcoming voter registration and it is still a matter to be discussed with the main opposition PNCR.

The Ministry of Public Works and Communication says plans are in train to upgrade the Georgetown speed-boat landing and it is considering the construction of a floating dock to improve passenger safety and comfort.

Former Queen’s College (QC) Head Prefect Kara Duff was admitted to the local bar last week after her petition was accepted by Justice Roxanne George.

A United States (US) importer recently reconfirmed his intention to purchase butternut squash from Guyana and expressed an interest in importing other produce in the future.

The PNCR says that the government has to end its harassment of Stabroek News (SN) and certain TV stations.