News

Seven boats were on Monday handed over to health centres in the upper and lower Pomeroon to boost health care services in Region Two communities.

A valuation list crafted in 1996, which the Georgetown municipality has been operating with to value properties for rating purposes has now received legal standing with the passage of the Valuation of Property for Rating Purposes (Validation) Bill in the National Assembly on Thursday.

A South American investor is the lone interested company in the now defunct Globe Trust and Investment Company Limited (GTICL) after two companies which had shown interest scrapped plans to reorganize the entity.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud said that although 2007 was a year of challenges, many of the plans that had been outlined for the sector in the National Budget and the National Competi-tiveness Strategy have been achieved.

Fire, believed to have been deliberately set after a domestic row, destroyed a two-storey building at Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara yesterday afternoon.

Police yesterday said that a post-mortem examination revealed that Christopher Edwards, who was found dead on the Annandale Railway Embankment on Christmas day, several feet from his motorcycle, died in an accident.

The decomposing body of a man was discovered in his Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara home last evening and it is unclear under what circumstances he died.

A female prisoner who was being escorted to the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday made a mad dash for freedom after the vehicle she was in collided with another on High Street.

A mother of five who pleaded guilty to a charge of trafficking in narcotics yesterday burst into tears when Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle sentenced her to three years jail together with a $10, 000 fine.

Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs yesterday committed Seon Collier called ‘Picture Boy’ to stand trial in the High Court for the murder of Chandrapaul Persaud at his Non Pareil home last year September.

Three persons accused of killing a man by setting him afire last year were yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court.

Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Providence Magistrate’s Court yesterday adjourned the Buddy’s fuel trial to allow the defence to respond to the prosecution’s submission to amend the charge.

The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday issued a flood alert for the upper reaches of the Mahaica and Mahaicony creeks and when Stabroek News visited the areas some farms had already been submerged.

Gunmen operating out of Agricola seriously wounded a popular Linden businessman in a daring robbery yesterday afternoon as he was making his way into the East Bank Demerara village.

Two armed bandits yesterday afternoon stormed a Mandela Avenue internet caf

Christmas Eve fun for two senior officials attached to the Skeldon Sugar Moderniza-tion Project (SSMP) turned out to be a nightmare after they were beaten and robbed of a camera by armed bandits around 11 pm.

Transport Minister, Robeson Benn yesterday received a copy of the report from the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) on its investigation into the torched aircraft found at an illegal airstrip at Orealla two weeks ago but there are no immediate clues as to where the plane came from and who owns it.

Boxing Day ended tragically for an East La Penitence family when a seven-year-old died under the wheels of his father’s canter truck while the vehicle was reversing into their yard.

The bill paving the way for the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) to proceed with the House to House registration exercise was yesterday passed in the National Assembly despite reservations by the opposition that a part of it may threaten the independence of the commission.

Education awareness about substance abuse will now be added to the curriculum at the Kuru Kuru Training Centre, in the wake of a recent incident where students were found with illicit drugs, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr Frank Anthony said at a Christmas fete at the centre.