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An 18-year-old and a 19-year-old were each placed on $200,000 bail yesterday when they appeared in the Springlands Magistrate’s Court charged with attempted murder.

A Number 64 Village, Corentyne man was remanded to prison yesterday when he appeared in the Springlands Magis-trate’s Court.

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May formally began Britain’s divorce from the European Union yesterday, declaring there was no turning back and ushering in a tortuous exit process that will test the bloc’s cohesion and pitch her country into the unknown.

A fight with a longtime friend, which culminated with injuries to the friend’s hand, has resulted in a tailor being hauled before the courts to answer to the crime.

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – El Salvador’s Congress yesterday approved a law prohibiting all metal mining projects in a bid to protect the poor Central American country’s environment and natural resources.

ROME (Reuters) – A rubber boat packed with migrants sank in the Mediterranean and the presumed sole survivor – a 16-year-old Gambian boy – told rescuers he believed all other passengers drowned, the International Migration Organization (IOM) said yesterday.

Million-dollar bids were opened on Tuesday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the construction of an admin building for the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit under the Ministry of Public Security.

The Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan last Thursday held a meeting with Lawrence Duprey, Chairman of C.L.

President David Granger (fifth from left) has informed ExxonMobil’s Executives of Government’s commitment to the development of Guyana’s oil and gas sector in an atmosphere of transparency and trust so that the Parliamentary Opposition and the people of Guyana are fully involved in the process, a statement from the Ministry of the Presidency said today.

Following controversy over the fast-tracking of a $605m emergency drug purchase and three others for the GPHC, PPP/C MPs Gail Teixeira and Juan Edghill have submitted a series of questions to Parliament for Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence to answer.

This morning, GAWU says the workers engaged in the applying of fertilizers to the canes of the East Demerara Estate (Enmore Estate and LBI Estate) visited its Head Office and met with the Union’s General Secretary,  Seepaul Narine.

An Indian National who was on his way home along with his friends, was shot and hospitalized during an attempted robbery about 23:50hrs last night at First Street, Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara, Investigations, police say, have so far revealed that Brianard Revival, 28, a foreign student of Second Street, Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara, was in company of some friends, in his motor car, when he stopped at a junction and a motor car suddenly drove in front of his and stopped.

Police ranks are in pursuit of three suspects who last evening robbed two persons of their jewellery in Newtown Kitty, Georgetown, during which one of the victims was shot and is now hospitalized in a stable condition.

Police say they are investigating a Robbery under Arms committed on Mohan Lall, 49, unemployed and his daughter Salome Lall, 24, an Accountant of Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara, which occurred about 20:30hrs last night during which cash and a cellular phone were taken by two male suspects, armed with a handgun and a pair of scissors.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said on Wednesday that U.N.

Justice Franklin Holder has given a statement pertaining to the conduct of Attorney-General Basil Williams SC in his courtroom last week, according to acting Chancellor Yonette Cummings-Edwards, who yesterday said that the judiciary would pronounce on the issue soon.

Acting Chancellor of the Judiciary Yonette Cummings-Edwards and acting Chief Justice Roxane George were both sworn-in yesterday and President David Granger signalled that he will finally move to appoint judges soon to address the shortage in the judiciary.

Three members of the Suddie Hospital staff have been arrested as part of an investigation into the disappearance of a quantity of drugs allocated to the hospital only last week.

A 27-year-old man died early yesterday morning after the car he was driving collided with a metal culvert before toppling several times and striking a utility pole at Land of Canaan on the East Bank Demerara (EBD).

Preliminary findings from the Snoek-1 well, ExxonMobil’s latest exploration in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, are favourable and the company is expected to make a formal announcement within the coming weeks, sources say.