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Tragedy struck a Liverpool Village family on Sunday night when a GDF corporal knocked down and killed a man later identified as his younger brother.

Guyanese consume about 5.8 litres of alcohol annually per capita, Health Minister, Dr Leslie Ramsammy said, adding that his ministry has begun to tackle the issue, through education and plans are in train to address it legislatively.

The Guyana Defence Force has start afresh the court-martialling of Lieutenant Colonel, Tony Ross, who was in charge of the army’s arms store when the 30 AK-47 rifles and five pistols were smuggled out last year.

The 22-year-old Guyanese, who created chaos last month at the St John’s University in New York after he was seen walking around the campus armed with a rifle, was yesterday found incompetent to stand trial for the offence and was ordered held in a state psychiatric facility by a Queens Criminal Court judge, according to an Associated Press (AP) report.

The Digicel Group yesterday announced the continuing expansion of its mobile technology product line and customer services with a raft of first-to-market mobile technology innovations such as the Blackberry Curve, Vehicle Tracking in Jamaica, Diaspora Services and CDMA Roaming in the Caribbean.

A 12-year-old boy going home from school became the latest road fatality as he was hit by a bus and killed while crossing the Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara public road yesterday.

Residents of Yakusari, Black Bush Polder (BBP) say that though three children have fallen from an access bridge that has long been in a dilapidated state the authorities have yet to make good on their promise to repair it.

President Bharrat Jagdeo handed over land grants to the Whitewater and Yarakinta communities when he addressed toshaos at the Guyana International Conference Centre on his return from the IMF/World Bank meeting.

The Ministry of Housing and Water recently awarded a $15.3M contract to facilitate the construction of drains, roads and other works in Region Seven.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) yesterday announced that garbage contractors have withdrawn their services over pay and residents are advised not to put their garbage out for collection.

The three persons who were detained on Friday last after two suitcases were intercepted with firearms, ammunition, two fragmentation grenades, two detonators and 38 kilogrammes of compressed marijuana at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri have been released by the police.

Link Show 25 will not be held from November 2-7 as previously announced after the script was submitted a day late but producer Ron Robinson says this decision is unfair.

Police intend to contact overseas law enforcement agencies in an attempt to determine the identity of the two bound and decomposed bodies which were found on Thursday and Saturday in Corentyne, Berbice, acting Commissioner of Police Henry Greene said yesterday.

President Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday during the opening ceremony of the Eighth National Youth Parliament (NYP) that the forum is very important as it provides scope for changing the political culture in Guyana.

Acting Commissioner of Police Henry Greene says that a number of persons will be charged today over a small aircraft which disappeared from the Anna Regina runway two weeks ago after it was landed there by a local pilot.

Funding in the sum of $235.3 million may be sought to enable photographs of 600,000 registrants to be taken for the production of new identification cards during the house-to-house registration scheduled to start early next month.

Naipaul Narsingh who was allegedly hit in the head with a piece of wood following an argument with another man died from shock and haemorrhage due to blunt trauma to the head, a post-mortem revealed yesterday.

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) is still pushing ahead to prosecute the principals of the Belgian firm that was reportedly caught with 4,000 carats of rough diamonds suspected to have been smuggled into the country.

Relatives of 23-year-old Delroy Forde who was fatally shot on Friday last by a licensed firearm holder whose wife he reportedly attacked and robbed are anxiously awaiting a post-mortem examination.

A post-mortem examination on 45-year-old Kamal Doonwah, who was repeatedly stabbed on Saturday, has revealed that she died as a result of a stab wound to the heart and her husband remains in police custody.