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The Guyana Water Inc (GWI) yesterday announced that it would be moving to regularize construction sites where large volumes of treated water are being used and not accounted for through the company’s metering and regulation systems.

A couple who recently returned from the US to live in Guyana and was allegedly found with a pistol along with seven bullets at a home was yesterday remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

Special prosecutor Hukumchand in the fraud case involving the three former NBS managers yesterday asked for a two-week adjournment saying that new developments have arisen which may impact upon the case.

A young unemployed resident of Shieldstown, West Bank Berbice was on Monday fined $10,000 at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court after he admitted to being in possession of a narcotic that he said he uses for “asthma.”

A man who allegedly broke into a woman’s home and stole articles worth over $2.7 million was yesterday remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

Barama’s CEO Peter Ho says he is surprised at President Bharrat Jagdeo’s allegations against the company and assures that he is willing to meet with Government to resolve any issues and would consider hiring an independent auditing firm to investigate the matter.

A Guyanese family of three was last month granted refugee status in Canada under the Canadian Immigration and Protection Act by arguing that the police here provided no protection after they had been threatened by a drug lord.

Teachers will now receive a total salary increase of 9% for 2007 which includes the six percent previously agreed to by Government and the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU).

Less than one week after the Suriname authorities imposed a ban on the semi-legal border crossing with Guyana that facilitates mostly small-scale traders, the service was back in operation from Monday.

The government did not spend any money on legal fees for Guyana’s case before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in the just-concluded maritime boundary dispute between Guyana and Suriname, President Bharrat Jagdeo says.

A man who was alleged to have snatched a chain from the neck of one of two foreigners on Church Street, Georgetown last night was later caught after a man who said that he is a policeman ran a car into him on Robb Street.

Four gunmen early yesterday morning made off with a metal safe containing over $82,000 in cash and cheques from the Goed Intent Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) office.

Industrial action at the University of Guyana Turkeyen campus is expected to intensify over the next few days if Cabinet does not respond favourably to the University of Guyana Workers Union (UGWU) on the transportation allowances issue.

A De Kinderen businessman who went to bed leaving his car parked in his front yard said someone broke into his makeshift home, stole his keys and drove away his vehicle while he was sleeping.

Lennox Wade, the jogger who was attacked by two pit bulls last week, underwent a second operation on his hands yesterday but he was told by the doctor that he will have to go abroad to seek further medical attention.

(Barbados Nation) The offer by Guyana to lease Barbadians their agricultural land at Bds$10 per acre is “ridiculous” and “nonsensical”.

Although much could not have been done for Ricardo Bynoe, who has had a tumour growing in his nasal cavity since 2004, when he visited the US Naval hospital ship recently, efforts are being made by a doctor on the vessel to get the lad to the US for surgery.

Essequibo resident Mohamed Khan is in desperate need of US$35,000 for surgery in India if he is to have a chance at walking again.

(Antigua Sun) A festive occasion suddenly turned ugly after several people were forced to run for cover after masked gunmen appeared at their get together in the Gray Hill area in the wee hours of Sunday morning.

The Burrowes School of Art on September 25 reached a milestone after 12 students graduated from its certificate and diploma programmes.