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Even as the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) moves to implement paid parking in the city, a pilot project on East Street has been deemed unsuccessful with some of the blame being laid on City Hall.
After over seven years on remand for the murder of a reputedly mentally ill man, Omar Bacchus yesterday pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter, when he appeared at the Berbice Assizes before Justice Brassington Reynolds.
STARR Computer yesterday launched its Business Centre on the second floor of its 59 Brickdam premises.
Police Constable Tito Benons, who was charged in April with unlicensed firearm possession, led his defence yesterday at a city court, where he maintained that he was on his way to the police station to lodge the firearm when he was intercepted by police.
While the lights and median will be completed, the extension of the northern side of Carifesta Avenue will be postponed until after Caricom Day, Supervising Engineer Sherod Parkinson said yesterday.
Residents of West Berbice were yesterday relieved that stagnant floodwater had started to recede after government deployed more pumps in the affected villages but said they were still being inconvenienced.
Nestlé is continuing a nationwide campaign aimed at promoting not only doing some good, but also giving persons a ‘feel good’ boost, a release from the company said.
A national consultation on the safety of workers in the manufacturing sector is scheduled to end today with new recommendations.
Onika Luke, the waitress who was shot in her chin during a robbery at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara last month, is still waiting to undergo surgery to remove the bullet.
The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) will be creating emergency response systems in mining communities, GINA said.
The Government’s annual School Uniform Voucher distribution has begun, according to the Ministry of Education.
The police last evening confirmed that two suspects have been arrested and a car impounded, in relation to the robbery committed on Sunday at the Green Ice Taxi Service during which 15-year-old Jahmaul Lewis was shot.
The New Era Book & Gift Shop is reopening at The Court Yard Mall – 76 Robb Street, Lacytown.
The 12th Berbice Exposition and Trade Fair was launched on Friday even as a top Region Six official observed that the economic situation in the region has stagnated or has been declining.
A Mon Repos man was on Tuesday remanded to prison after being charged with stealing $30,000 from a fellow villager who refused to give him $500.
The police have released the driver who was allegedly involved in the accident that claimed the life of Triumph handyman Seenauth Persaud, even as investigations into the matter continue.
A Wismar man, charged with break and enter and larceny was on Tuesday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Clive Nurse at the Linden Magistrate’s Court.
A man who pleaded guilty yesterday to falsifying documents for a passport application was fined $100,000 with the alternative of eight months in prison, when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – John Ashe, a former United Nations General Assembly president accused by U.S.
The private criminal charges filed against Justice Navindra Singh over an alleged altercation with a motorist, were withdrawn today.
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