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A 64-year-old Kuru Kuru woman was yesterday remanded to prison after she was charged with helping to supply students of the Kuru Kuru Training College with marijuana.

While some of the businesses that owe the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) millions in property rates have closed down, City Hall will be going after the owners to collect, according to spokeswoman Debra Lewis.

Four hundred thousand hectares from the surrendered Barama forest concessions will be placed in conservation, Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman has said.

A Brazilian pastor was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with causing the death of a motorcyclist, following a collision in the city last week.

An Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) who was seen verbally threatening and abusing junior ranks of the force in a video recorded last month, is now the subject of an investigation and is likely to face charges soon, according to Acting Commissioner of Police David Ramnarine.

The police have wrapped up the AK-47 probe and while the case file was sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for legal advice, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said that the Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) who was implicated will face disciplinary charges.

Auditors are currently working at City Hall following a request made by Town Clerk Royston King to the Auditor General Deodat Sharma requesting that an audit of the council’s stock and financial systems be done.

The trial of former Ministry of the Presidency Permanent Secretary Omar Shariff and his common-law wife Savitri Hardeo, who are charged with failing to comply with a court order, began yesterday with testimony from two police witnesses, who detailed the seizure of documents for what one of them called a money-laundering probe.

Acting Commissioner of Police David Ramnarine yesterday urged the almost 200 officers set to participate in five training sessions to improve on their education and work towards restoring the integrity of the force.

Neighbours and relatives held a picketing exercise in front of the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday to demand justice for a woman after an order was served on her to be evicted from her mother’s house.

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised yesterday’s test launches of four missiles, the country’s official news agency reported today, stepping up threats against Washington as US troops conduct joint military exercises with South Korea.

The five men who were charged jointly and remanded to prison for the murder of Danian Jagdeo, a phone card distributor, who was shot and killed on February 8, at Adventure, Corentyne during a robbery, yesterday made their second court appearance in the Whim Magistrate’s Court.

The Parliamentary Social Services Committee on Thursday visited the New Amsterdam Public Hospi-tal and heard that there was a drug shortage, more staff was needed and a key testing machine was out of order.

CARACAS/LIMA (Reuters) – Venezuela’s leftist government yesterday called Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski a “coward” and a “dog” servile to the United States, leading Peru to respond by sending a protest note and calling in its ambassador for consultations.

Several months after he announced the reopening of a few cold cases, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum yesterday told media operatives that the investigations were open and the police have since re-interviewed some witnesses as promised.

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The new, more narrowly tailored temporary travel ban President Donald Trump signed yesterday will be more difficult to challenge successfully in court, legal experts said.

Justice Brassington Reynolds, moments ago, ruled that Smart City Solutions can continue enforcing fines against drivers who fail to pay for parking in metered zones and even have their vehicles clamped, while the substantive matter is still being determined by the court.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump signed a revised executive order on Monday banning citizens from six Muslim-majority nations from traveling to the United States but removing Iraq from the list, after his controversial first attempt was blocked in the courts.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is advertising for expressions of interest for the operation of a duty free service (Diplomatic Shop) in Central Georgetown.

(Trinidad Guardian) Former Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine yesterday described as “bad news for the energy sector,” the decision by Methanol Holdings Trinidad Limited (MHTL) to shut down two of its five methanol plants at the Plipdeco estate and offer VSEP to the affected workers.