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The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday expressed solidarity with the oppressed people of Myanmar, noting that the people’s human rights are being flagrantly violated by the military.

A man who allegedly had a firearm and 12 bullets at Kitty was yesterday remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

Two motorcycle bandits yesterday made good their escape with some $800,000 after attacking a businessman at Bel Air Park.

Defence counsel for beauty queen Carolan Lynch who has been charged with the murder of her husband, Swiss House Cambio boss, yesterday objected to a statement that was to be tendered in evidence by a woman Detective Corporal at the Preliminary Inquiry (PI).

Magistrate Chandra Sohan placed 15 persons on $15,000 bail each when they appeared before him at the New Amsterdam Court on Friday, charged with fraudulent diversion of electricity.

A mother would get 21 days of “rest” after her son who admitted to assaulting her when he appeared at the Blairmont Court was “put away” for that time.

Two MMC Security Force guards were killed and two injured after they were ambushed by eight gunmen, who also hijacked their vehicle, at Sheribana Bridge in the Essequibo yesterday.

Rising expenditure, declining employment levels and an aging population are among the concerns that the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) will seek to address in 2008, as it moves into a year described as “most challenging”.

National Insurance Scheme (NIS) General Manager Patrick Martinborough may not renew his contract after it ends in November.

Police are investigating two accidents that occurred in two different parts of the country taking the lives of two men in the process.

The First Crossing, the diary of British surgeon Theophilus Richmond who sailed on the first ship, Hesperus that brought indentured labourers from Calcutta, India to Georgetown was launched last evening at Le Meridien Pegasus.

The Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region Nine has denied reports that students in the dormitories of the Annai Secondary School are surviving on one meal a day because the money given to the school by the RDC is grossly inadequate.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee yesterday called on a group of junior officers to take their oath of office seriously, charging them to have respect for human rights and to remember that they were servants and not masters of the people.

The Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre recently received a supply of medical items to boost its services, from the Food for the Poor (FFP) organisation.

A four-member team of legislators from the Legislative Assembly of the State of Roraima in Brazil have indicated interest in investing in livestock farming, the production of yogurt, and acquiring lands in the Rupununi and intermediate savannahs to pursue these ventures.

The two men who were held by police late last week in connection with the murder of Sharon Kunick, whose half-naked body was found just off the Stewartville foreshore, West Coast Demerara (WCD), were released yesterday afternoon.

The PNCR has levelled 11 charges against former Central Executive Committee (CEC) member James McAllister for alleged misconduct committed before, during and after the party’s Congress this year.

Deep within the southern rainforest of Guyana a centuries old culture and a modern way of life meet and mingle in the Wai-Wai community of Masakenari.

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) yesterday launched its website, which will afford persons access to printable benefit forms cutting out the hassle of having to go to the local offices to collect them.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) says it is alarmed at the increasing number of school-age children being found at the Mandela landfill.