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Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo on Sunday announced that the Linden to Lethem road is to be paved, a Ministry of the Presidency statement said.

The trial of 39-year-old Andre Hetsberger, who is accused of raping a 13-year-old girl, will commence tomorrow morning before Justice Navindra Singh and a 12-member jury at the High Court in Georgetown.

The March 18 local government elections in constituency four of Georgetown will see representatives from the two major parties battling with a candidate from a voluntary group and an individual and all are keen on more street lights for their communities.

A man accused of carnally knowing a 14-year-old girl was yesterday acquitted of the indictment after a jury unanimously found him not guilty of committing the act.

A Guyana Gold Board lab technician has been charged with stealing $2.1M in gold from the entity.

The police are seeking the assistance of the public in locating two men who are wanted in relation to investigations being done into the murders of two different men in the interior.

Police have issued a wanted bulletin for Kidron Junior Waldron who is being sought for questioning in relation to trafficking of narcotics on February 2, 2016 at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.

“I wasn’t in my right senses,” a convict yesterday told a city court after he was charged with escaping from police.

An ex-convict yesterday found himself back before a court to answer a robbery charge.

The owner of Kumar’s Variety Store of 69 De Willem, West Coast Demerara was yesterday robbed of $500,000 after leaving the Citizens Bank at Parika, East Bank Essequibo around mid-day.

The Children’s Costume Parade saw enthusiasm and flair when 60 participants, competing in six categories, feted their way through the streets to the National Park last Saturday.

The discovery of four marijuana plants at a Grove, East Bank Demerara house has led to two of the residents being charged in a city court with cultivating a prohibited plant.

A Berbice mechanic was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with threatening to kill a woman and having an unlicensed gun and ammunition in his possession.

  The disappearance of a magic mat has landed a young Lethem man behind bars on a simple larceny charge.

SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian police said they issued an arrest warrant for President Dilma Rousseff’s campaign manager yesterday, complicating her fight to survive an investigation into her re-election in 2014 and stave off impeachment by Congress.

A Mon Repos man, accused of wounding a man with a knife after a dispute, was yesterday placed on $80,000 bail after denying the charge.

HAVANA (Reuters) – President Raul Castro called on all Cubans to help eradicate the mosquitoes that carry the Zika virus yesterday and ordered 9,000 army troops to help stave off the disease.

The Caribbean Community (Caricom) is mounting an electoral observer mission to monitor the general elections to be held in Jamaica on Thursday.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil is planning to fight the Zika virus by zapping millions of male mosquitoes with gamma rays to sterilize them and stop the spread of the virus linked to thousands of birth defects.

LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists in Britain have found how drug-resistant bacteria build and maintain a defensive wall — a discovery that paves the way for the development of new drugs to break through the barrier and kill the often deadly “superbugs”.