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A representative of the United States embassy on Tuesday interviewed Barry Datram, the Ruimzeight, West Coast Demerara businessman after what police say is the drug-related kidnapping of his wife and daughter by two Venezuelans, one of whom was shot dead by police last Saturday.

A man is in police custody following the brazen robbery by a gang of heavily armed bandits who shot an Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara businessman and robbed him of an undisclosed sum at his home on Tuesday evening.

Pirates attacked the captain and five crew members of a fishing vessel in Suriname waters around 6 pm on Sunday and carted off over $1M worth of fish even as a gang of sea bandits was busted in that country last week.

Residents’ fears of being flooded again in the Mahaica Creek have increased as the water level started to rise four days ago during heavy rainfall.

Venezuela has expressed regrets about the incursion into Guyana’s territory on November 15, 2007 and assured that the incident had no political motive on the part of the Venezuelan government.

Some local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are adamant that there are serious violations taking place in the country which defy the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

The Mayor and City Council is reminding all persons who intend to slaughter cows for the Eid-ul-Adha celebrations that the meat must be examined and certified by the officers of the Municipal Abattoir since it would be distributed to the public.

One of the lawyers representing city businessman Kevin Jordan, who is charged with four counts of buggery, made a lengthy bail application on Monday citing old cases of a similar nature but when the case was called again yesterday Magistrate Oneidge Walrond-Allicock opted to refuse bail once again.

The decision as to whether the defendants in the Buddy’s fuel trial should be called upon to lead a defence was delayed yet again yesterday as Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) prosecutor Anil Nandlall sent a message to the court asking for more time to respond to the issues raised in the defence’s submissions.

A businessman who allegedly used forged bank cheques to obtain almost $3M in industrial, electrical and household items from several businesses yesterday appeared in court on 15 charges and was released on $750,000 by Magistrate Allan Wilson.

A US citizen who allegedly attempted to smuggle cocaine out of Guyana via the airport by strapping almost one kilo of the illicit drug to her thighs and buttocks yesterday denied the allegation when she appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara man who was reportedly caught by police with an unlicensed firearm, yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court and was remanded to prison.

Venezuela’s Ministry of External Relations has responded to Guyana’s diplomatic note in relation to the border incursion and the destruction of two dredges in the Cuyuni River on November 15 and the government here is studying it.

A forestry worker is dead and two others are in critical condition after the vehicle they were travelling in slammed into the back of an unlit truck parked at the shoulder of the road at Dora on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway last evening.

A 50-year-old Berbice man who was recently detained in connection with the $7.8M robbery of a cambio dealer back in October, appeared yesterday in court charged with the attack and was remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octive Hamilton.

The Media Association of Jamaica has sent a tribute to Doreen de Caires who has announced her retirement as the Managing Director of Guyana Publications Inc.,

Armed bandits last evening robbed an Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara businessman and shot him in his buttocks in a brazen attack at his home.

Sacked state media employee Andrea Bryan, who has received her severance and other benefits from the National Communications Network (NCN), says she is worried about the future of those still in the employ of the entity.

The army yesterday disclosed that further checks by soldiers in the Corentyne area where an illegal airstrip was found unearthed a camp with foodstuff and a generator.

In his letter captioned “Torture is a peculiar form of disease with a human vector” (07.12.07) Mr Eusi Kwayana omitted the word `not’ in the fourth paragraph which should have read: “Our purpose was to bring this matter formally before a court of justice for redress and relief and bring it in a form that will not allow the Director of Public Prosecutions to withdraw it from the court.”