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Investigations are being conducted into the murder of Ramkarran Mohanlall, 33 years, of Annandale South, ECD, which occurred at about 2305h last night at Annandale, the police say.

SYDNEY/LONDON, (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s three-and-a-half-year stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London amounts to ‘unlawful detention’, a United Nations panel examining his appeal will rule on Friday, the BBC reported.

The opposition PPP/C has promised a “hot” budget debate next week and several of its shadow ministers yesterday criticised aspects of the APNU+AFC government’s “taxation” budget charging that it is not for the ordinary man.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) says it believes that this year’s budget will generate growth and lauded Finance Minister Winston Jordan on his presentation.

Former special constable Jermain Bristol was yesterday sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment on a charge of conspiracy to traffic cocaine that was intercepted in rum bottles at the John F Kennedy airport in New York.

The Ministry of the Presidency (MOTP) yesterday denied that government’s hiring of contract workers has jumped saying that the absorption of various ministries into the MOTP accounted for the rise in its contract worker wage bill however questions remain about how many new persons were hired by the administration Stabroek News had reported yesterday that despite criticising former PPP/C administrations for subverting the public service through the heavy use of contract workers, the APNU+AFC Coalition government has not only continued the practice but has more than doubled the

The Ministry of Com-munications and Tourism has stepped in to allay fears about the spread of the Zika virus here given Guyana’s proximity to Brazil.

Wanted man Delroy Joseph called Barney who was shot last week, when police swooped down on a house at Nicolay Street, New Amsterdam, Berbice, appeared on Tuesday, at the New Amsterdam Court, where police instituted charges of robbery under arms, break and enter and larceny and trafficking narcotics.

Positing that the over $150 million used to conduct state audits was a waste of taxpayers’ money, Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday called on government to make all audits undertaken public.

Salt and Pepper Restaurant, one of Georgetown’s well-known eating houses, is currently under renovation and will be reopening its doors soon to the public under new management.

The trial of Orin Jerrick, who is accused of murdering bus driver Gavin Fiffee at the Plaisance bus park in 2014, commenced yesterday before Justice Navindra Singh and a 12-member jury at the High Court in Georgetown.

An Orlando, Florida-based architecture and engineering group is involved in the designing of a US$30 million football project for Guyana that was conceived by former Canadian star Alex Bunbury, according to a report in the Orlando Sentinel newspaper.

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday urged the government to scale back its proposed plan to ban imports of used tyres and restrict the imports of used and re-conditioned vehicles.

The legal challenge of the sale of plots of land at Pradoville 1 and 2 came up for hearing before acting Chief Justice Yonnette Cummings-Edwards yesterday but was adjourned to March 8 so as to ensure that all those named are served with copies of the action.

The four Berbice sugar estates, Blairmont, Rose Hall, Albion and Skeldon, have signalled their intention to go on strike today.

Fuel prices have been reduced beginning February 1, but some minibus drivers say the reduction is not significant enough and are calling for an increase in fares.

The Parika Sea Dam man who was found murdered on Tuesday morning died from “asphyxiation due to suffocation and compression strangulation compounded by blunt trauma to the head and chest.”

Local law enforcement is investigating how 1.3 kilogrammes of cocaine got into the baggage compartment of a Dynamic Airlines flight that left here for the John F Kennedy Airport, New York on Tuesday.

The decomposing body of a 58-year-old man of Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice was discovered in his home on Tuesday afternoon The man, Bheem Singh who lived alone was last seen alive on Sunday but neighbours did not suspect anything was wrong.

A street vendor accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in cable belonging to the Ministry of Public Health was yesterday granted $50,000 bail by a city court.