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Two Mahdia residents were both remanded to prison yesterday on charges that they had marijuana for trafficking.

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the hijacking of a fuel truck along the Mabura Road last Saturday.

Three men were yesterday charged with stealing nearly half of a million dollars’ worth of raw gold.

At about 1830h on Wednesday the police say they responded to a report of alleged larceny made against James Lamazon, 29 years.

The Guyana Association for Professional Surveyors installed its new managerial body on Wednesday at the Herdmanston Lodge, before Minister of State Joseph Harmon.

The trial of the two police constables accused of assaulting detainee Colwyn Harding, who has accused police of using a baton to rape him, was adjourned again yesterday.

The United States Embassy in Georgetown this month hosted a career guidance seminar themed “Launching your global career with STEM” at the Theatre Guild in celebration of International Education Week.

Bursting with excitement and eagerness, fifty primary school students recently participated in the Guyana Energy Agency’s (GEA) “Express Your Energy” activity held at the Transport and Harbours Sports Complex in Thomas Lands, a release from the GEA said.

Councillors of the Toevlugt/ Patentia Neighbourhood are longing for the holding of local government elections so that the decision-making process can be reverted to the local government level thereby giving neighbourhoods the freedom in carrying out their fiduciary duty to rate payers.

An 18-year-old was yesterday remanded to prison after he was brought before a city court on a robbery with violence charge.

ISTANBUL/MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia threatened economic retaliation against Turkey yesterday and said it was still awaiting a reasonable explanation for the shooting down of its warplane, but Turkey dismissed the threats as “emotional” and “unfitting.”

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela opened an investigation yesterday into the murder of a local opposition leader days before a legislative election, stirring fears of renewed political violence in the volatile South American OPEC nation.

A taxi driver was yesterday placed on $50,000 bail by a city court after he pleaded not guilty to conspiring with others to steal a gold chain.

LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Bolivia’s President Evo Morales leaves no doubt about who he blames for global warming.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The destruction of Brazil’s Amazon forest, the world’s largest intact rainforest, increased by 16 percent in 2015 from a year ago as the government struggles to enforce legislation and stop illegal clearings.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Police Complaints Autho-rity (PCA) has recommended that the former head of Special Branch be charged for his role in the alleged cover-up of the discovery of a quantity of marijuana at the private residence of former prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar in 2013.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – A senior Mexican government crime prevention figure and close ally of President Enrique Pena Nieto has resigned from his Interior Ministry post, after it emerged he is being investigated for electoral crimes.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Illegal levels of arsenic and mercury polluted the Rio Doce river in the days after a dam burst at an iron ore mine in early November in Brazil’s worst-ever environmental disaster, according to tests by a state water agency.

The suspect in the murder of Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) dispatcher Melissa Skeete is claiming that she attacked him with a blade, which he managed to take away and then used to fatally stab her.

The Department of Natural Resources and the Environment (DNRE) today cited a recent article in the media which it said incorrectly stated that there has been a change in the name of the Georgetown Botanical Gardens.