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(Reuters) – Jamaica’s Usain Bolt has lost one of his nine Olympic gold medals and his perfect triple treble of Games’ sprint victories after team mate Nesta Carter was found guilty of doping at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

(Trinidad Guardian) After nine months on the run, the suspect in the murder of Guyanese national, Khemraj Persaud, is now in police custody.

Central Georgetown, usually known for its limited parking options, saw empty spaces available along many of its streets yesterday as motorists tried to avoid the city’s new paid parking system on the first day of its official implementation.

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) has won its protest of the award of the contract for the supply of juice for the Ministry of Education’s school feeding programme after the Bid Protest Committee (BPC) ruled that the evaluating committee did not stick to the criteria stipulated in the tender documents.

Greg Stewart, the truck driver who was earlier this month found guilty of causing the death of a youth in a hit-and-run along the Flour Mill Public Road, Eccles, East Bank Demerara, was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail for the crime.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) on Monday delivered a presentation to the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) for possible funding and collaboration on the construction of the Guyana-Brazil Road.

While murder accused Dennis Williams said he was at his father’s Georgetown home at the time of the 2008 massacre at Bartica, the older man, called as a witness to corroborate the alibi, gave conflicting testimony on his son’s whereabouts at the time of the killings as he could not remember the date.

A Linden man was yesterday remanded for allegedly dousing the mother of his children with an acidic substance, damaging more than half of her body, last Thursday evening in New Amsterdam.

A North East La Penitence man was yesterday charged with stealing over $16 million in airplane parts and other items.

The implementation of parking meters within the vicinity of schools was the proverbial straw that broke the back of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) and led to scores of members from the East Coast, Georgetown and East and West Coast Demerara branches holding a candle light vigil on Main Street last evening.

Convicted drug trafficker Dennis Jones yesterday found himself back before a city court, where he was charged with trafficking 10 grammes of cocaine and forging an identification card.

Following a high speed chase on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) yesterday around noon, police nabbed three persons and they are being questioned.

A Tucberg Park, New Amsterdam man was remanded to prison on Monday when he was charged with possession of a pistol.

A Number 51 Village, Corentyne man was on Monday sentenced to three years in jail after he admitted to robbing employees of a gas station.

Bids were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the reconstruction of sea defences for the Ministry of Public Infrastructure but there was no information on the area for works.

A roundabout will be constructed at the Kitty Sea Wall junction where sink holes recently opened to create a smoother flow of traffic.

The Ministry of Natural Resources has denied a Huffington Post report that that the United States’ Energy Governance and Capacity Initiative (EGCI) is “involved in writing oil and gas regulations for the country of Guyana, where Exxon has just announced another major oil find.”

Two North Rupununi farmers were on Monday separately charged with gun and ammunition possession.

Gafoor’s worker Damian Lackhan was assisting with closing an 800-pound main gate at the Houston, East Bank Demerara  bond, when it fell, causing him injury that later led to his death.

A Cuban dentist was on Monday fined $50,000 for overstaying and placed on a total of $300,000 bail after blaming “ignorance” for charges of conspiracy to forge an immigration stamp and uttering a forged document that were also read to her.