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A Crane, West Coast Demerara woman accused of conspiring with others to fraudulently obtain $5.4 million under the pretence that she could deliver a Lexus vehicle, was granted $200,000 bail by a city court.

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Brazil’s ministry of labour has fined 340Brazilian companies for using slave labour, including forced labour and people working in degrading conditions for little or no pay in rural and urban areas, a leading anti-slavery group has said.

Urquhart Street, Kingston will be closed between Main and New Market streets today from 08:00 hrs to 17:00 hrs to facilitate emergency road works.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Venezuela is talking to some OPEC members and Russia about the possibility of joint action to prop up oil prices, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said, while another diplomat said Moscow wanted better ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

KIEV/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Turkey warned Kurdish militia fighters in northern Syria yesterday they would face the “harshest reaction” if they tried to capture a town near the Turkish border, and accused Russia of a missile attack there that killed at least 14 civilians.

A 16-year-old Eccles, East Bank Demerara resident is Guyana’s second confirmed case of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.

At about 1900h. last night, the police say that Nathan Martin, 14 years, of Middle Road, La Penitence, Georgetown, was among a group of friends on the roadway at Saffon Street, Charlestown, when he was shot to his abdomen by a man armed with a firearm.

President David Granger on Friday reiterated his call for a “social contract” amongst all players on the national stage to move the country forward.

The virtually bankrupt Women of Worth (WOW) programme will be resuscitated with new stringent measures and the rebranded project will also target men, Minister of Social Protection Volda Lawrence announced last week.

According to Minister of National Security Khemraj Ramjattan the six pages which make up the protocols for the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) have been “drafted’ and will be made public.

A taxi driver of Lot 24 La Belle Alliance Housing Scheme is Essequibo’s latest road fatality after his car careened into a trench at Reliance.

Despite the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) sending tankers of water to assist the residents of Diamond Housing Scheme and Kaneville, East Bank Demerara, persons are still forced to seek elsewhere for supplies.

The harvester stood forlornly in the flatlands, encircled by tufts of dead, brown grass and shrubs in a field that once gleamed with golden, ripening paddy in the shadows of the Kanuku Mountains.

From last August to the present, the backlog at Land Registry has been significantly reduced, according to Attorney-General Basil Williams, who said on Thursday that the focus this year will be on capacity building.

As it awaits the rollout of the government’s social service programme for vagrants, the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) has stopped using sprinklers to disperse homeless persons from around its environs.

As consideration of the 2016 Budget estimates begins there is speculation over who will replace People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Parliamentarian Dr Clive Jagan who tendered his resignation last week due to illness.

The driver of the car that collided with a motorcycle at Annai, Region Nine last Thursday resulting in the death of three persons is out on bail and relatives are questioning why he has not been charged.

Private farmers who supply cane to the Wales Sugar Estate are at their wits end to find an alternative means of earning a livelihood as they don’t believe that taking cane across the coast to the Uitvlugt estate is feasible.

Faced with criticisms from his predecessor that the new government is not doing enough for Amerindians, Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs Minister Sydney Allicock on Thursday said there is less political interference while efforts are being made to upgrade schools and critical infrastructure.

The upcoming local government elections will cost $1.3B, according to Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan, who says it is an investment in good governance.