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A carload of persons opened fire on two men last night killing one of them and injuring the other.

Joanna Erskine, a prison officer who is accused of smuggling ganja into the New Amsterdam Prison, was yesterday placed on $150,000 bail after denying the charge at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court.

A Cornelia Ida woman was left bloodied and traumatised after she and her two children were attacked by two bandits during an attempted robbery on Wednesday.

A gold miner was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with a murder he allegedly committed 17 years ago at Mahdia.

Mark Anthony Bartley, accused of knifing another man to death over a box of food in April of this year, was yesterday committed to stand trial for manslaughter.

Minister of Business, Dominic Gaskin is confident that upon conclusion of the implementation of his ministry’s Strategic Plan for 2016-2020 Guyana would see significant economic development.

The man who is suspected of fatally bludgeoning Ramesh Manbodh two Thursdays ago with a cricket bat is now in police custody.

The police today said that a thirty one year old, unemployed South Ruimveldt Gardens resident was this morning remanded to prison until December 14, 2016, after being nabbed with six hundred and sixty eight (668) grams of cocaine yesterday at the No.

A member of the Guyana Police Force’s SWAT team, who was charged with having a range of ammunition in his possession, walked out of court a free man yesterday after the charges were dismissed by a city magistrate.

A jury yesterday found Lloyd Britton not guilty of the 2013 murder of Elvis Fernandes, who was shot dead on Mandela Avenue during an argument between two motorists.

An absent Godfrey Lynch, the miner accused of robbing an elderly caretaker of over $13M in goods during an attack at a Republic Park, East Bank Demerara home, was yesterday sentenced to 58 months in jail by a city magistrate.

Murder accused Clifton Graham identified two men to police as the persons who killed taxi driver Rawlston Bernard Henry, according to a caution statement admitted into evidence at his trial.

Following a tense stand-off in which a member of the city police drew his gun, City Hall yesterday removed four large swimming pools that it says were encumbering reserves along Sheriff Street.

The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions  has advised that the driver of the van that collided with a car on Sheriff Street that resulted in the death of a  four-year-old girl be charged.

A police witness was yesterday accused of withholding important evidence during his testimony about injuries that assault accused Jason Abdulla claimed he sustained at the hands of lawmen.

A man is now hospitalised after he was struck down on the Eccles Public Road by a bus last night.

The Region Two Regional Democratic Council (RDC) has defused a conflict between a Charity businessman and several vendors he blocked from plying their trade on the Charity Market waterfront.

Addressing teenage mothers at the opening ceremony yesterday of the Teenage Pregnancy Support Group, First Lady, Sandra Granger charged them to become the leaders of tomorrow.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – In a curious convergence of events on the same day last week, four Venezuelan provincial courts issued identical rulings, state governors quickly hit Twitter to celebrate, then the election board emailed a short but bombshell statement.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s top court yesterday approved an injunction against a congressional probe that found Rafael Ramirez, the former president of state oil company PDVSA, was responsible for corruption and malfeasance that cost the firm $11 billion.