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Ten Guyanese between the ages four and 24 years old have returned home after successfully completing open heart surgeries in Chennai, India, courtesy of Kids First Fund.

Two men yesterday appeared in the Providence Magistrate’s Court on two separate murder charges and Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry remanded them to prison.

A 31-year-old father of seven was executed at his Number 78 Village, Corriverton home around 12:30 am yesterday and police sources feel the murder was drug-related.

Under pressure from opposition political parties to resign, gun-toting Local Government Minister Kellwan Lall yesterday backed down from commenting on his rum-shop brawl with a teenager over a woman.

The Mc Doom man who allegedly killed 14-year-old Donnis King in March this year, appeared in court yesterday also jointly charged with the murder of a cooking gas deliveryman, the attempted murder of an ex-policeman and a gunpoint robbery.

The historic Upper Mazaruni land titles case, filed since 1998, began on Monday in the Supreme Court before Justice Jainarine Singh.

A robbery attempt by two gunmen and a woman was foiled yesterday after their victim, a 68-year-old Herstelling, East Bank Demerara businessman, fought back.

Twenty-five years after Suriname experienced one its bloodiest nights, during which 15 persons were killed, the alleged perpetrators, including former president Desi Delano Bouterse, are to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on Friday.

According to an official Internet report the number of visits to the Stabroek News website for the month of October 2007 was 603,673, an average of 20,000 a day, and 26,147,421 hits.

Traffic Chief Neil Semple said his department’s efforts to relieve traffic congestion along city streets are beginning to show some progress.

A steel pan revival spearheaded by pan genius Roy Geddes and collaborations with musicians, dancers, dramatists, designers and sculptors and other stakeholders are high on the agenda as Guyana gears up for Carifesta 2008.

A prompt police response early yesterday morning led to the arrest of a Linden man, who was allegedly burglarizing a Parika, East Bank Essequibo grocery shop.

Sol Guyana Incorporated recently opened a new branch at Itabali, Essequibo River, an initiative propelled by the need to satisfy its customers, and protect and expand business, General Manager Ken Figaro said.

The fare increases which Timehri minibus drivers called for during a protest on Monday and yesterday, have not been approved.

The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) has installed two mobile pumps to drain the Maria’s Lodge/Cullen area on the Essequibo Coast, where flooding is currently an issue.

Guyanese lawyer Jenelle Archer, who is currently practicing in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), was recently admitted to the bar in Trinidad and Tobago.

Representatives of eight international birding organizations and a birding writer enjoyed over ten birding destinations during a ten-day trip to the best bird-watching areas in Guyana.

A 42-year-old Venezuelan who entered the country illegally and was discovered when police raided the home where he was staying, was fined $25,000 and ordered deported when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

One week after he allegedly pistol-whipped a 19-year-old man and then fired his gun several times during a drunken brawl over a woman at an East Coast Demerara bar, Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall declined to comment on the issue yesterday.

Over 20 minibus drivers who ply the Georgetown to Timehri route halted their buses yesterday morning calling for an increase in fares and for schoolchildren to pay adult fares, since the police are clamping down severely on overloading.