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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.

United States-based Guyanese Reverend Banmattie Ram and Jonathan Subrian yesterday met with President David Granger, at the Ministry of the Presidency, to give him an overview of a project that they started in Essequibo to combat suicide, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said.

Fourteen months after a fire at Robb and King Streets claimed the lives of three persons including two children, the police last week detained two suspects including the alleged mastermind of the arson but later released the duo and will seek legal advice.

Shawn Harris who surrendered to the police on Monday after a wanted bulletin was issued for him in relation to the Bank of Baroda, Mon Repos branch robbery, is expected to appear in court today.

A West Ruimveldt man yesterday made a court appearance on a wounding charge after he allegedly struck another man to the head with a piece of wood.

At about 1200h on Tuesday, acting on information received, the police say that ranks from the Lethem Police Station went to Manari, Central Rupununi, where they arrested three men, two Guyanese and a Brazilian, in whose possession was found 15 horses that had been stolen from the ranch of a businessman at Manari, and were being taken to Brazil.

A Turkeyen man was yesterday granted $150,000 bail on a charge of fraudulently converting a quantity of Apple iPhones worth over $1.6 million.

LIMA/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Peru has become the latest commodity exporter to seek financing help from the World Bank amid fiscal and currency pressures brought on by collapsing prices for metals, oil and other raw materials.

A taxi driver accused of stealing a bag containing money and a cellphone, denied the allegation yesterday when he made an appearance before a city court.

The case against the two police officers charged with assaulting detainee Colwyn Harding was yesterday adjourned to the 11th of February.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Construction worker Roberto Miguez has been lying in a hospital bed with Guillain-Barre syndrome in Venezuela’s muggy Anzoategui state since Friday as his family desperately hunts for immunoglobulin to treat the condition.

GENEVA/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization voiced concern on Wednesday over the reported sexual transmission of the Zika virus in Texas amid worries that such infections could make battling it even tougher.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Cascade man was gunned down while his wife was fighting for her life at hospital last night, having been beaten with a brick and chopped by the men who killed her husband.

NORRISTOWN, Pa., (Reuters) – A Pennsylvania judge refused to dismiss a sexual assault case against Bill Cosby yesterday, setting the stage for the first criminal prosecution of the once-celebrated comedian, who has for years denied allegations of assault by dozens of women.

An Atlantic Ville resident was yesterday charged with forgery, after he was allegedly caught attempting to buy a bottle of tonic with fake US currency.

(Jamaica Observer) The mistrial application filed on behalf of former Turks and Caicos Island (TCI) Premier Michael Misick was on Tuesday dismissed by High Court Judge Justice Paul Harrison.

During yesterday, acting on information received, the police say that ranks conducted another drug eradication operation in the Onderneeming Backdam, Essequibo Coast, during which a field that was under cultivation with approximately 525 cannabis sativa (marijuana) plants, at an average height of 7cms.

During Tuesday, the police say that ranks searched a man in the vicinity of the Ekereku Airstrip, in whose possession was found 2 kilograms of marijuana.

In yesterday’s edition of Stabroek News under the heading `Contestants for George-town election unveiled’, it was erroneously reported that former Works Minister Robeson Benn is on the PPP/C list for Local Government Elections.

A 68-year-old taxi driver who was involved in a collision at the University of Guyana access road was yesterday granted bail after appearing in court charged with driving carelessly.