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As the police in Berbice investigate the sexual assault of three young girls, ages four, seven and ten, their stepfather was arrested yesterday morning at his home.

A mysterious fire yesterday morning completely destroyed a wooden building at Vigilance, East Coast Demerara (ECD), leaving three persons homeless.

A fire on Friday afternoon, suspected to be electrical in origin, gutted a North Sophia home, leaving four persons counting millions of dollars in losses.

For years, Wintress White was a victim of domestic violence. But even though her husband beat her at his every whim and fancy and she would leave him on her own or when he chased her she kept returning as she puts it “for love.”

An amendment to existing police legislation is all that is required to cement the procedures that would govern the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), which is just another unit within the Guyana Police Force, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan said last Friday.

With the commissioning of Radio Lethem in May and that of Radio Mabaruma several weeks later, residents of Lethem and Mabaruma are still anticipating the airing of local programmes on their respective stations.

Residents of Port Kaituma have given mixed reviews of the recent discussions with representatives of the Ministry of Communities on the deplorable state of the Matarkai Main Access Road.

The Berbice Regional Health Services (BRHS) has administered in excess of 9,000 yellow fever vaccines to residents of Region Six, East Berbice and Rosignol, Region Five, West Coast Berbice in the last three weeks.

Interpersonal violence is at a crisis level and government will be working on a plan to address it, President David Granger says.

ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish authorities rounded up nearly 3,000 suspected military plotters on Saturday and ordered thousands of judges detained after thwarting a coup by rebels using tanks and attack helicopters to try to topple President Tayyip Erdogan.

Mohamed Imrazie Alli, called “Panta,” turned himself over to the police on Thursday after a wanted bulletin was issued for him days earlier in connection with a drug bust at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, over which his two children were charged.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – As Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley arrives in Jamaica, new data is showing that the twin-island republic denied entry to 320 Jamaicans in 2015, almost two per cent of the total number of Jamaicans who sought entry into the oil-rich country over the period.

Lusignan massacre accused James Anthony Hyles and Mark Royden Williams were on Wednesday granted the opportunity by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to apply for special leave to challenge a Guyana Court of Appeal (GCA) decision ordering a retrial of their case.

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s infamous sex industry is under fire, with the tourism minister pushing to rid the country of its ubiquitous brothels and a spate of police raids in recent weeks on some of the largest establishments providing sex services in Bangkok.

Although checks were made using surveillance footage from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), the passport of a United States-based Guyanese woman that went missing during her check-in was never found.

The 14th Caribbean Cuboree was officially launched on Tuesday at the Scout Association of Guyana’s (SAG) Headquarters on Woolford Avenue.

NICE, France (Reuters) – Islamic State claimed responsibility yesterday for the truck attack that killed at least 84 people celebrating Bastille Day in the French city of Nice and police arrested three more people there in connection with the seafront carnage.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil has deported the Franco-Algerian nuclear physicist Adlene Hicheur, who was convicted in 2012 for his involvement in a French terror plot, after rejecting a request for an extension to his work visa, the Justice Ministry said late Friday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Title-holders Trinbago Knight Riders capitalized on a ragged display from a lethargic Barbados Tridents, to power their way to a convincing seven-wicket victory here Saturday, and into third spot in the Caribbean Premier League standings.

The Guyana Police Force today announced promotions. The list of promotions follows: On the occasion of the Guyana Police Force 177th Anniversary, the Commissioner of Police Mr.