News

Two masked men broke into a house at Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke-Linden Highway yesterday and stole two firearms and a video camera.

The National Centre for Education Resource Deve-lopment (NCERD) says that the final examination for the National Grade Six Assess-ment is set for April.

Health professionals in Guyana will soon be bound by law to operate under a set of guidelines following government’s endorsement of a code of ethics governing their operations.

Government is to pump more than $29 million into the local government and regional development community service enhancement project to convert three regions to towns.

An 18-year-old cane harvester was denied his pre-trial liberty when he appeared at the Reliance Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of rape before Magistrate Geeta Chandan.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday remanded to prison a Linden businessman who pleaded not guilty to three charges of unlawful possession when he appeared before him at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday denied bail to a Brazilian man who police allegedly found with a gun and ammunition in his possession.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday placed a postmaster and a postal clerk attached to the Mahaicony Post Office on $200,000 bail each for allegedly stealing just over $1.5 million on two different occasions.

A supermarket, a hardware store and a restaurant are to be charged by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) for contravening the Value Added Tax (VAT) law.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan remanded to prison a man accused of murdering another when he appeared yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A man who allegedly murdered a Friendship man on Christmas Eve night was yesterday refused bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The year began tragically for a Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo family after a man with a history of mental illness yesterday chopped his wife within an inch of her life before committing suicide by hanging himself as their four children looked on.

Two persons were injured on Friday night when they plummeted about six feet from a rollercoaster ride at an amusement fair set up at the Esplanade Park in New Amsterdam, Berbice.

Bandits did a professional job in the $12M heist at R.

The relatives of an elderly man are seeking the help of the public in locating him, after he left his Victoria home early on Old Year’s morning and never returned.

Traffic lights for a US$2.1M ($420M) project have been shipped. Approximately 50 traffic lights should be installed by mid-March, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported yesterday.

Reports of an alleged altercation on board an incoming Travel Span flight from New York have reached the ears of senior officials within the airline and they are now trying to ascertain if this may have been a factor in the swaying and dive on the December 17 flight.

The Mayor and City Council has brought some of its old debt over to this year and some of its workers are still to receive part of what was to have been a one-off year-end payment, while some have not yet received any money.

The Ministry of Public Works has embarked on a project to shape the shoulders of roads it repaved last year in order to mitigate flooding in Georgetown and its environs but some residents are unhappy with the way it is being done.

The body of a 22-year-old man of Good Hope, Mahaica who went missing last Saturday was found in a clump of bushes by residents around midday yesterday.