Year: 2017

A 24-year-old woman is in custody as Police investigate an attack on her mother and the fatal stabbing of her 21-year-old brother on Easter Monday. The now dead young man, Vishaul Hansraj, a trawler operator of Covent Garden Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara (EBD), succumbed on Tuesday afternoon while receiving treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital after being stabbed to the chest on Monday. While information surrounding the stabbing is sketchy, Police have arrested the dead man’s older sister, whom they believe wounded him. When contacted on Wednesday morning, A…

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…before 2022 deadline Guyana has been congratulated on its efforts to improve its anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) framework, but Government is being encouraged to work towards ensuring that the country becomes compliant with all standards before the 2022 deadline. World Bank’s Senior Financial Sector Specialist Stuart Yikona told a recent finance workshop held to discuss the AML/CFT framework that the self-assessment done by Guyana is the easiest part of the process, but the country now needs to move ahead with implementation. “I would like to…

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Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has concluded his Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo). Over the past week, Jagdeo visited a number of communities in the Region where residents raised major issues affecting them and their livelihood. Among the major issues raised are the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into land ownership, and the impact of the plummeting economy and the shortage of basic medical supplies on their communities. Over the weekend, the Opposition Leader visited Aishalton and Tabatinga among other communities. The Opposition Leader had been in the Region since last Tuesday…

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…as declining earnings hit home In light of the 15 per cent decline in earnings from the forestry sector in 2016, the Government is now prepared to implement several changes in the hope that it will help with the sector’s recovery. This is according to Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman, who provided an update on the sector to a Parliamentary Committee chaired by Communities Minister Ronald Bulkan on Wednesday. Trotman said the first step to be taken by Government to assist in these efforts, is to reallocate three quarters of…

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Having a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) to look into the joint and communal ownership of lands acquired by freed Africans and the claims of Amerindian land titling will only lead to greater polarisation in Guyana, Opposition PPP/C Member of Parliament (MP) Anil Nandlall has said. Nandlall told this newspaper that Guyana is already polarised along ethnic lines, and the CoI would only compound this issue, especially between Afro-Guyanese and Amerindians. “This CoI seeks to commingle and intersect the right of Amerindians to traditional lands with the rights of Afro-Guyanese to…

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Former President Donald Ramotar believes it is time for all Guyanese to protest what he describes as the “anti-national and anti-developmental moves” by the APNU/AFC coalition Administration. “Guyanese, if you are fed-up, then step-up, make your voices heard!” Ramotar has declared. His sentiments are expressed in an article he wrote and sent to the Guyana Times for publication. The full text of that article is published below: The recent setting up of a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) “to examine all issues and uncertainties surrounding the claims of Amerindian Lands titling;…

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The infamous victim of alleged sexual assault in 2013 involving two Police ranks exited the courtroom in defeat as he once again appeared before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on Wednesday, this time for an alleged Lime Street, Georgetown robbery. Appearing before Magistrate Fabayo Azore was Colwyn Harding, charged for robbing Virtual Complainant (VC), Ray Margaret Baird on April 15, 2017, of three cellular phones valued G$160,000 and a pair of glasses valued G48,000 among other items. The 26-year-old vendor denied the allegation, and disclosed that he was a father of…

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Yasbel Benitez from the Dominican Republic was on Wednesday slapped with two immigration fraud charges, and appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. The first charge, which was read by city Magistrate Fabayo Azore via a translator, stated that Benitez between May 13, 2016 and December 20, 2016 in the city of Georgetown, with intent to defraud, conspired with person/s to forge one Guyana immigration service stamp in her Dominican Republic passport, purporting to show that same had been issued by the Guyana Immigration Department. In addition, the woman on April…

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The 51-year-old fish trader of La Jalousie, West Coast Demerara (WCD) who was before the courts on charges of cocaine possession had the charge dismissed at the Leonara Magistrate’s Court. Mohammed Ali, called “Phanta”, a father of three, was accused of being in possession of 51.626 kilos of cocaine on May 10, 2015 at Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara, for the purpose of trafficking. The State’s case stated that on May 10, 2015, one of Ali’s employees transported the illegal substance to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) concealed in…

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