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Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo believes that the government does not have any plans to develop the economy and that after one year of APNU-AFC in office, Guyanese are worse off.

Murder accused  Navendra Basdeo alias Pone, was yesterday committed to stand trial at the next sitting of the Berbice Assizes following the end of a Preliminary Inquiry into the unlawful killing of Karran Sukdeo, called Vishal ,  on August 23, 2014, at a wedding house at Johanna , Black Bush Polder, Corentyne.

President David Granger yesterday lamented that Guyana was not keeping up with small states on generation of green energy and environmental matters.

A policeman was placed on $40,000 bail yesterday after he appeared before a magistrate charged with theft.

A supervisor at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail after he denied that he stole $1.1 million from the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court in 2012.

Barbers and cosmetologists, who once plied their trade on the pavements of America, Longden, Regent and Croal streets, have been relocated to the Merriman Mall, between Cummings and Light streets, for three months.

The manslaughter trial of Marlon Roberts, the Den Amstel man accused of killing his older brother during an argument over money commenced on Tuesday before Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the High Court.

Tenders were opened on Tuesday for the supply of line hardware materials for the Lethem Power Company.

The relatives of a 22-year-old cane cutter from East Canje, Berbice who was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare neurological disorder said to be associated in some countries with the mosquito-borne Zika virus are seeking the public’s help for his treatment.

Former Director of Prisons Welton Trotz appeared in court again yesterday for the continuation of his sex assault trial.

After several days of frustration, two LIAT passengers are now thankful that the situation concerning the delayed arrival of their luggage is slowly being rectified.

The fifth accused in the robbery of Justice Nicola Pierre and her husband Mohammed Chan has also claimed that he was at home on the night of the robbery, though his father clammed up in the middle of being cross-examined as an alibi witness.

Sol Guyana, yesterday, as a part of Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary launched its ‘Fuelling Guyana’s 50th’ promotion giving customers the opportunity to win Shell fuel and cash.

William Evans, one of the two men on trial for robbery, on Tuesday told a city court that although the victim identified him as one of the robbers, he had never seen her before then.

The Soesdyke/Huist Coverden Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) has started major works in the constituency to address drainage and garbage problems.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan security forces fired tear gas at protesters in Caracas yesterday amid nationwide rallies demanding a recall referendum to end President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist rule.

A Cuban national appeared in a city court yesterday where he was fined $20,000 after being charged with overstaying his time.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized in Parliament yesterday after he rushed across the floor to hurry one legislator to his seat, was accused of elbowing another in the chest and got into a shouting match with an opposition leader.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – A woman was fined and ordered to be deported from the United Arab Emirates for breaching her husband’s privacy by checking his cell phone to see if he was cheating on her, Gulf News reported yesterday.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s fiscal deficit prior to debt interest payments could reach 150 billion reais ($42.10 billion) this year as revenues collapse amid a crippling recession economy, Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles said yesterday.