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Troy Resources Inc last week Friday poured its second gold bar, completing testing of its entire operation.

The trial of Balram Singh, who is accused of murdering taxi driver Bomeshwar Sukhdeo, yesterday heard that the deceased’s vehicle was found at a Herstelling body shop, where work was done to hide the original chassis number.

Michael Alfred, the headmaster of the Sand Creek Primary School in Region Nine who was accused of physically assaulting three of his students has been dismissed from the job after admitting to the incident.

Accounting firm Ram and McRae has already begun processing the 36 applications for the post of Go-Invest Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and will be submitting the names to the investment agency by today.

A 48-year-old Reliance, Essequibo Coast man was yesterday remanded to prison after he allegedly confessed to the police that he murdered 74-year-old Surspattie Ramlakhan called `Aunty Carmen’ between February 19 and 20 at Richmond.

A verdict on the gun and ammunition possession and escaping custody charges against Regan Rodrigues has been postponed to January.

Three weeks after pedestrian Julian Leitch was fatally struck down by an attorney, relatives continue to express their dissatisfaction with what they say is the slow manner in which the police are dealing with the case.

The De Kinderen Community Group has successfully completed its first project, construction of a bridge to link De Kinderen and Meten-Meer-Zorg, GINA said yesterday.

A Lusignan resident is calling for action to be taken against her neighbour, whose daily burning of wood, she says, is affecting her health.

Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman on Monday re-commissioned the Guyana Gold Board (GGB) branch office at Bartica and urged its staff to always have integrity and accountability as the foundation of their operations.

City Constable Aaron Henderson, who was shot during a $2 million robbery at Bourda Market on Monday, has been discharged from the hospital.

Five out 67 potential sites are currently being assessed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for the development of hydropower generation facilities, according to Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson.

Two youths, who were charged in February with multiple counts of armed robbery, had the cases against them dismissed yesterday after it was found that an identification parade was not conducted properly.

(Reuters) With encouragement from 150 world leaders ringing in their ears, government negotiators in Paris sought yesterday to turn that rhetoric of unity into the text of a global deal to slow climate change.

In the face of growing assaults against and murders of women by men, the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has labelled patriarchy a public health concern and called for an intense public education programme targeting boys and girls.

(Reuters) Mark Zuckerberg will put 99 percent of his Facebook Inc (FB.O)

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Heads of state and big-name billionaires opened the Paris climate summit with a bang on Monday, promising billions of dollars to develop new green technology to solve a key sticking point of the negotiations: financing a low-carbon future for developing nations like India.

Several bids for the provision of security services for the Ministry of the Presidency were opened during yesterday’s session at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) at the Ministry of Finance.

(Reuters) Chicago’s police chief was ousted yesterday after days of protest over a white officer’s shooting of a black teenager 16 times and the department’s refusal to release a video of the killing for more than a year.

PARIS, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Business leaders, environment ministers and even royalty urged companies to eschew raw materials that destroy forests, at the U.N.