Month: July 2010

Police say around 3.30 m today Mahendra Persaud, 32, of Good Hope, ECD, reported that he had caught a man who was found stealing from his house.
 

   Eight residents of Campbellville Guyana, among them a 93 year-old doctor, are today trying to find shelter after a fire destroyed a two story building at 109 Bonsika Street last night.
The fire started at the bottom flat of the building which was occupied by four teenagers, fire officials say.

A man accused of stealing a bicycle was shot dead near his home in Kitty, Guyana this morning.
Roy Smith, 33, of 180 Thomas Street was shot dead by an unknown assailant. The gunman escaped but police have held his fiance for questioning. Smith was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown hospital a few hours ago.
Investigations are continuing.

   A lone bandit struck at Good Hope Housing Scheme about 4 Am today and gathered a large quantity of jewellery and cash but his luck came to an end when he tried to reach a lap top computer and woke up one of the three member family of the home.

The Guyana Police Force today responded to an article published in the kaieteur News Paper on July 15, 2010 under the caption “Guyana Police lack the policy framework to deal with dogs”
According to the public relations officer Mr Ivelaw Whittaker the Force has a policy which caters for the acquisition of a high quality of dogs attached to the Canine Section and their continuous effective training, contrary to what is reported.

The police today conducted a drug eradication operation at Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke/Linden Highway where a field of about two acres with approximately 3,000 marijuana plants, ranging between 3 to 6 feet in height, and a nursery with about 5,000 seedlings were found.
 
In addition a camp was found with a hammock, clothing, foodstuff, garden tools and cooking utensils within the dense vegetation. 
 

   The main opposition party PNC/R this morning lashed out at the ruling PPP/C saying that the party’s policy under the present President has failed to create the national conditions which would encourage Guyanese to stay at home to contribute to national development.

   President Bharrat Jagdeo is hopeful that some of the initiatives discussed with Kuwait Prime Minister His Highness Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Al Ahmed Al-Jaber Al Sabah during his visit on Monday would go forward, including funding for a much needed four-lane highway on the East Coast Demerara.

   Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud today described the Mangrove Management Action Plan as “timely and low cost” with the spin-off of providing economic benefit to the fishing, leather craft and apiculture industries.

   President Bharrat said his Government spends a lot of money in the City with respect to roads, cleaning parapets, paying to collect garbage, digging canals, cleaning outfalls and installing new pumps.