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A man who is accused of robbing a girl at gunpoint was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A 27-year-old trader who allegedly had an unlicensed gun, ammunition, and cocaine and ganja at his hinterland shack when police searched it was remanded to prison yesterday when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Four men who police reportedly caught in the act of sodomising a girl appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday and Magistrate Oneidge Waldron-Allicock released two of them on bail and remanded the other two.

A businessman was sentenced to one year imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of firecrackers when he appeared at the Springlands Court on Thursday before Magistrate Krishendat Persaud.

Persons are invited to submit entries to an essay competition being held in observance of the 60th anniversary of the entry of Dr Cheddi Jagan to parliament by the Cheddi Jagan Research Committee.

In a significant High Court ruling yesterday, Justice William Ramlal held that no person can hold the office of Chancellor and Chief Justice at the same time, and that the simultaneous holding of both offices is unconstitutional.

Thirty-six members of the Venezuelan military led by a general on Thursday morning invaded Guyana’s land and airspace, blowing up two Guyanese mining dredges in the Cuyuni River and making overflights in two helicopters.

hairman of the Board of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Ronald Alli and Head of the Guyana Energy Authority (GEA) Joseph O’Lall have been removed allegedly over the bungling of procurement arrangements for fuel supplies, this newspaper understands.

Several Barbadian business persons are ready to invest in Guyana’s economy, with some alliances almost concrete following an investment seminar held here in September.

The main opposition PNCR has called for the urgent establishment of an industrial court, saying that with yet another imposition of an increase in wages for public servants the unions representing workers have no avenue to seek redress.

Police yesterday discovered a two-acre marijuana field at Aruka, North West District with over 1,000 plants along with three 16- gauge spent shells and a quantity of marijuana seeds.

Economic conditions, the political system, the state of education in certain communities and religious discrimination were some of the issues raised when the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) held a consultation with the Afro-Guyanese community on Tuesday.

December 8 has now been set as the new date for the University of Guyana’s (UG) annual graduation exercise, following the postponement of the ceremony owing to a fall out between the Academic Board and the Council.

Over the last week police have made a further 1,648 cases against defaulting motorists as zero tolerance enforcement of traffic laws continues across the country.

The Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) said preliminary findings of an audit on Willems Timber and Trading Company have indicated that the company has breached its operational procedures and penalties will be instituted upon the completion of the investigations.

Trinidadian Jacqueline Jack was elected as the first-ever female president of the Caribbean Congress of Labour (CCL) at its 16th Triennial Delegates Conference earlier this month in St Vincent.

The national programme for the prevention and control of Tuberculosis (TB), a Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)-funded project has been further boosted with the successful training of 14 new field outreach workers.

‘Trunkers’ (thieves specializing in stealing from vehicles) yesterday made off with a large amount of money from a vehicle belonging to an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) employee after supposedly tracing him from a city bank.

Two vehicles collided at Grove on Thursday night killing a pedestrian and injuring two others who are now patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The water treatment plant at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) has been experiencing some technical difficulties, which have affected Guyana Water Incorporated customers in the areas from Atlantic Gardens to Industry.