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While recent rainfall compounded by a broken tailings pond in a nearby mining area caused Mahdia to experience flash flooding over the weekend, the situation is now under control as the water has since receded Regional Chairman Bonaventure Fredricks has said.

A businesswoman from Eteringbang was yesterday brought before the court and remanded to prison for allegedly having cocaine in her possession.

Cases of tuberculosis (TB) in the prisons have been cut by half since the implementation of the Directly Observed Treatment Short programme (DOTS), according to Chief Medical Officer Dr Shamdeo Persaud.

There are plans in the making to institute alternative sentences in the hopes of reducing overcrowding in the prisons, according to Chief Probation and Social Services officer Forbes Munroe.

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) application to Magistrate Judy Latchman to summons journalist Travis Chase and a station manager to testify in the trial of self-confessed drug trafficker Barry Dataram was yesterday placed on hold.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) on Tuesday announced that it had recorded a 19% decrease in serious crimes for the first four months of the year as compared to the same period last year.

First Lady, Sandra Granger on Tuesday afternoon declared open an Information Technology (IT) and vocational skills training programme for the youths of Victoria Village, East Coast Demerara.

A 21-year-old man appeared in court yesterday charged with assaulting his mother after she told him to go and get a job.

The common-law wife of Anthony David, one of the men accused of the robbery of Justice Nicola Pierre and her spouse, on Tuesday corroborated her husband’s claim that he was at home on the night of the attack.

(Trinidad Express) A Guyanese mother was one of two people who appeared in court on Tuesday charged with stealing stuffed toys including those of television characters “Spongebob” and “Barney” from a mini-mart.

Thirty-seven more Guyana Police Force ranks have completed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Induction Course.

The New Amsterdam Town Council last week ordered the closure of two Chinese restaurants after surprise inspections uncovered unsanitary conditions at both businesses.

A musician and labourer was last Tuesday granted bail after denying that he stole over $200,000 in goods and cash.

Fifty commemorative Golden Jubilee coins are up for grabs as GuyOil rolls out its promotions for the 50th independence anniversary celebrations, a release on behalf of the company said.

Two persons were last week fined $140,000 each for trying to smuggle birds out of the country.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s chances of remaining in office plummeted yesterday after a key senator recommended the leftist leader face an impeachment trial and a top prosecutor said she should be included in a vast corruption investigation.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Mining companies Vale SA and BHP Billiton were hit with a 155 billion-real ($43.5 billion) civil lawsuit for the collapse of a dam at a mine last year that killed 19 people and caused damage that prosecutors said was comparable to BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

ANZAC, Alberta,  (Reuters) – A massive wildfire that has forced the evacuation of all 88,000 people from the western Canadian oil city of Fort McMurray and burned down 1,600 structures has the potential to destroy much of the town, authorities said yesterday.

Minister of Education Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine this afternoon said that Trinidad and Tobago has outbid Guyana for this year’s CPL T20 cricket finals but said that no official word has come from the organizers.

About 2130h. last night, Naresh Kumar, 37 years, of Parfait Harmonie, WBD, was driving a motor car allegedly at a fast rate along the Parfait Harmonie Access Road, when he lost control of the vehicle which turned turtle in a canal.