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Traffic Chief Roland Alleyne says the department’s campaign against loud music in public transportation is proving effective with more adhering to the regulations, the Government Information Agency (GINA) has reported.

Ronald Daniels, the prison escapee who allegedly shot and killed an Essequibo logger over a month ago has changed his appearance, which might be making it more difficult for police to track him down.

The largest observer group at the 2006 general elections has not endorsed the allocation of seats for the National Assembly and RDCs, though it says the polls were free and fair and that the declared results were mostly representative of the will of the people.

Today is the final day to file returns for Value Added Tax (VAT) and Excise Tax (ET) for February and the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) said in a press release that it was concerned over the “slow rate of returns.”

Guyanese are reminded that there is an urgent need to conserve on water, in view of the low level of the Lamaha Canal owing to the prolonged dry season, as the world marks World Water Day today.

Work on the surfacing of the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) has not yet begun as a suitable “binder” has not yet been found.

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) recorded a 51% increase in profit after tax for 2006, which was $506 million, compared to $334.2 million in 2005.

It seems as if the 2008 Presidential race has the face of a changing America and there is history in the making.

Education Minister Shaik Baksh’s announced plan to ban all cellular phones in schools across the country has raised the concerns of some parents and some students are also unsettled.

A report on the services sector released on Monday, revealed that computer-related and environmental services have high export potential, while communication, road transportation and tourism-related services are best reserved for domestic supply.

A teenager who allegedly wounded a policeman with an ice pick was yesterday placed on $20,000 bail by Melissa Robertson Ogle at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Amid open crying by relatives, Magistrate Krishendat Persaud further remanded to prison the men accused of robbing four families at Lesbeholden South, Black Bush Polder when they appeared before him at the Whim Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

A manufacturer, who had been charged since 2005 with misrepresenting another company’s label as his, was fined $4,875 by Magistrate Brassington Reynolds at Cove and John Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, ending almost two years of court proceedings.

Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday granted bail in the sum of $450,000 to a mother of five, the fifth person to appear in court to answer charges in connection with the Clico insurance fraud.

A man who admitted to robbing another man and then escaping from the police because he wanted to go to Mashramani was on Monday sentenced to two years in prison by Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Georgetown outplayed Upper Demerara to lift the Guyana Football Federation’s Guyflag Inter-Association Football title on Sunday evening at the GFC ground.

Clive Lloyd is the new West Indies team manager, but he’s one with a difference.

Three days after the death of Pakistan World Cup team cricket coach Bob Woolmer here, the cause of his demise is still unknown.

The recent, semi-comical contretemps involving elements of the Guyana Revenue Authority and the Guyana Police Force was a departure from the long-standing and usually discreet contraband trade along this country’s unguarded coastland.

A man who allegedly forced his way into a woman’s home and robbed, raped and sodomised her was yesterday refused bail by Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle at the Georgetown Magistrate’s court.