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Officers from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) yesterday made their second cocaine bust in five days, nabbing an Italian woman who was attempting to leave the country with some ten pounds of the drug concealed among the clothing in her suitcase.

The man who was detained by police for questioning on Tuesday last following a robbery attempt on a Herstelling businessman has been released on station bail.

The death of a premature baby at the Georgetown Public Hospital on Monday has left a young mother devastated.

A team from Caracas, Venezuela is expected here next week, with the report on the invasion at Cuyuni, which occurred earlier this month, as well as one on last year’s killing at Eteringbang.

Roger Bunbury also known as ‘Don Dick’ who the police released on Wednesday after holding him for nine days, is calling on the force to quit harassing him and stop referring to him as one of Guyana’s most wanted men.

The reputed wife of the snackette owner who was executed on Tuesday in front of his residence and business place at Number 78 Village, Corriverton has been taken into custody at the Springlands Police Station.

Opposition leader Robert Corbin expressed optimism yesterday that he and President Bharrat Jagdeo could find the middle ground on the nominees for the position of Chief Justice and Chancellor of the Judiciary.

Four credit cards, including two that can only be used locally, were last evening launched by the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) at a cocktail reception at the bank’s Recreational Centre in Bel Air Park.

A 22-year-old cane-cutter accused of robbing another man and using violence was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A Caribbean Airlines clerk, who allegedly checked in a cocaine-filled suitcase on Sunday, and passed it off as belonging to an outgoing passenger, is in police custody and will appear in court today.

Former First Lady Varshnie Singh said yesterday that she returned to Guyana on November 18, to find that the state vehicle she had been using was no longer accessible.

While the East Coast police dither over whether to charge Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall for allegedly gun whipping a teenager, then firing rounds in the air during a bar brawl over a week ago, another PPP/C Member of Parliament was not so lucky.

A 16-year-old boy is listed as critical in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital after a branch fell hitting him in the face.

The spanking new $350 million Wisburg Secondary School at Wisroc, Linden in Region Ten was officially commissioned yesterday amidst calls for more student, teacher and parental input, seen as critical to the school’s performance and standards.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company on Tuesday donated $1 million to the National AIDS Programme (NAP) to benefit children infected and affected by HIV.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee yesterday urged hundreds of schoolchildren to tell speeding drivers to slow down as this could help to curb the carnage on the roadways.

A just born baby girl was on Tuesday night rescued by a Bourda Market vendor who found her lying on a section of Merriman’s Mall.

Escaped prisoner Jermaine Brown who was a patient at the New Amsterdam (NA) Hospital was remanded to prison after he appeared at the NA Court on Tuesday before Magistrate Tejnarine Ramroop charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm.

Laparkan Shipping and the University of Guyana’s Tain Campus have entered into an agreement where the university will receive books and other teaching materials from the US at a reduced cost.

Police stopped and searched a man at the Timehri bus park yesterday and found cocaine hidden in the false walls of the two suitcases he was carrying.