News

A fire of mysterious origin razed a Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo home yesterday leaving its three occupants, who were not at home at the time homeless and with millions in losses.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds yesterday said veteran journalist Cecil Griffith who passed away on Monday was an eminent son of the soil who has left his “imprint in the spheres of journalism”.

Prime Minister Sam Hinds last weekend at Linden commissioned a brand new Wood-Mizer Super LT 40 Hydraulic Mill, acquired by the Region Ten Agriculture and Forest Products Association (RAFPA).

Stakeholders yesterday started to fine-tune a number of initiatives to respond to the challenges and concerns facing the nation’s youth while at the same time creating ways to ensure their participation in the country’s development.

Work is ongoing on the design and layout of the 12-acre Belvedere Industrial Estate in Central Corentyne and this is expected to accelerate development of local businesses.

Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are expected to be able to reduce their financial vulnerability to natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricane through access to the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) with financing of catastrophe insurance coverage from the facility to be established in March.

Two men in a red motor car yesterday robbed a recently opened East Coast of Demerara gas station of a quantity of cash.

Four Amerindian communities will shortly receive titles to their lands and a fifth will be granted an extension as soon as the Lands and Surveys Commission has completed mapping the identified areas, the Government Information Agency (GINA) said in a press release.

The trial of an Orealla man charged with raping and sodomising a 12-year-old girl opened at the Berbice Assizes yesterday before Justice Rishi Persaud.

The US-bound passenger who attempted to smuggle 11 protected birds out of Guyana changed his plea from not guilty to guilty yesterday and was fined $70,000 by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

Justice Rishi Persaud sentenced a man to 15 years imprisonment yesterday for the ice pick stabbing death of another man during Mashramani celebrations in 2002.

A father and his daughter yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court after a quantity of cannabis was allegedly found at the stall they operate near Salt and Pepper Restaurant on Longden Street.

The two-week-long High Court trial of Nandkumar Singh who was accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and her partner ended yesterday when the jury returned a verdict of not guilty of murder on both counts but guilty of manslaughter.

A second person is before the court accused of breaking into North Point Imports on King Street earlier this month and carting off with over $5M in appliances, cash, cell phones and accessories.

A Zeelugt resident appeared in court yesterday after ranks from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) searched his home and reportedly found a quantity of cocaine and marijuana.

A 32-year-old man of Linden/Soesdyke Highway yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of raping a 14-year-old girl.

Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday fined a labourer $10,000 with an alternative of three months imprisonment after he admitted to having a quantity of narcotics in his possession.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee says he is dissatisfied with the conditions under which some members of the Guyana Police Force are working, and added that while the government is in no position to enhance remuneration some effort will be made to improve their situation.

With the commissioning of its new $53 million warehousing facility at Strand, New Amsterdam, Geddes Grant (GG) will no longer find it difficult to provide a wide range of products to its Berbice customers.

Five of the Mazaruni prison escapees appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with escaping from lawful custody.