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The executive council of the Guyana Bar Association (GBA) has written to its President, attorney Gem Sanford-Johnson calling on her to resign immediately.

A Guyanese man and woman died in an accident  in the wee hours of Monday morning on the New Jersey Turnpike in the US.

An East Bank Berbice man is believed to have drowned in the Berbice River.

The government and the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) are being asked to defend their decision to award a $4.6B contract to a Chinese group for the rehabilitation of the power company’s low and medium voltage distribution network, which one of the bidders says was “improperly” done.

President David Granger has spoken confidently of a second term for the ruling APNU+AFC Coalition.

The People’s Progressive Party/Civic is preparing to convene a consultation with all parliamentary parties on the nominees for the Local Government Commission (LGC) even as it calls on Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan to convene a meeting of the 71 local government authorities (LGAs) so that his nominee could be selected.

Popular maths teacher Dennis Patterson was on Monday evening a victim of an armed robbery.

A fire, suspected to be an act of arson, gutted a two-bedroom house at Covent Garden, East Bank Demerara early yesterday morning.

Billion-dollar bids were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the procurement of pharmaceutical supplies for next year for the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.

A man was yesterday charged with conning a woman of over $2 million in a scheme in which he claimed he could sell her a house and land.

A Laing Avenue man was yesterday brought before a city magistrate to answer to charges of being in possession of just over half a pound of cannabis and attempting to bribe an officer.

Two Guyana Defence Force (GDF) ranks were yesterday arrested with several bags containing a quantity of milk and butter, believed to be stolen items.

Accused of fraudulently converting $1.6 million in raw gold to his own use, a man was yesterday granted bail by a city magistrate after he denied the crime.

The Epilepsy Foundation of Guyana (EFG) on Monday hosted a discussion with several stakeholders to enlist their help to raise awareness about the illness and available treatment.

Forensic exhibits that are still at the Eureka Laboratory, caused a further delay of the Preliminary Inquiry into the murder charge against Colin Alleyne, the man accused of killing elderly Montrose caretaker Danrasie Ganesh.

Vendors and drivers are calling on the authorities to fix a section of North Road approaching the intersection with Orange Walk, which they say is disrupting traffic and causing damage to vehicles.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump knew for weeks that national security adviser Michael Flynn had misled the White House about his contacts with Russia but did not immediately force him out, an administration spokesman said yesterday.

The 28-year-old mother who along with her three children were rushed to the hospital during last week after displaying symptoms of poisoning, were all discharged yesterday, and a mental evaluation has revealed that the woman is mentally ill.

A former murder accused was yesterday charged with attempting to stab another man to death.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – From buses and trucks to a $500 million golf resort, China is deepening its business footprint in Cuba, helping the fellow Communist-run state survive a crisis in oil-benefactor Venezuela and insulate against a possible rollback of U.S.