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Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan on Tuesday sentenced a man to three years imprisonment after he admitted to having 14 grammes of cocaine in a film canister.

The post-mortem examination on the nine-year-old girl found in a pile of logs on a Parika beach on Tuesday has revealed that she died as a result of manual strangulation compounded by blunt trauma to the head.

The Government Information Agency (GINA) says that contrary to a report which appeared in yesterday’s Stabroek News (SN) the decision to review the placement of government advertisements in SN was a “GINA policy decision and was in no way influenced by the directive of any senior government official” and it also says that the government will continue to monitor the situation.

The Association of Caribbean Media (ACM) has said that the withdrawal of advertisements from Stabroek News by the state information agency (GINA) sets a dangerous trend and appears to be a case of victimization on political grounds.

Barama Company Limited’s (BCL) certification from the international Forest Steward-ship Council has been suspended since the company failed to comply with certain conditions under the certificate, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says.

The Baha’i, Christian, Hindu and Muslim communities have issued a joint call to the government to withdraw the Gambling (Amendment) Bill scheduled for debate and passage in Parliament tomorrow.

The 2007 Guyana Business Outlook Survey has tapped a vein of confidence in the business community as it expressed its highest level of optimism for the economy in five years in the Ram and McRae 13th annual survey.

A fifth prison escapee was yesterday handed over to members of the Joint Services by a boat captain at the Mazaruni Boat Landing.

March 3rd has been set as the date for the convening of the 2007 Summit of Heads of the Rio Group to be hosted here in Guyana.

A car yesterday morning knocked two persons off of a pedal cycle seriously injuring one of them.

The lifeless body of an elderly man who was struck down by a Canter truck yesterday morning at Diamond, East Bank Demerara was left exposed to the elements for several hours before being taken to a city mortuary.

The Mayor and City Council, in a press release, has advised the public that all of the municipal markets would be closed on January 24 for routine cleaning.

A Werk-en-Rust man is missing after the boat he was in capsized after being hit by another a short distance from the Bartica Stelling on Tuesday night.

A vendor who denied robbing a woman of $22,000, but willingly gave her back a part of the money was on Monday ordered to do three weeks community service in the compound of the Whim Magistrate’s Court.

Two men who appeared at the Whim Magistrate’s Court on Monday to answer a charge of robbery under arms were granted their pre-trial liberty in the sum of $100,000 by Magistrate Chandra Sohan.

The body of a nine-year-old girl was yesterday morning pulled from a pile of logs on a beach at Parika, East Bank Essequibo after she never returned home the day before.

A US court judge yesterday ruled that drug-indicted businessman Roger Khan must be held without bail and turned down yet another bail application when he appeared in court in New York.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) and the France-based Reporters Without Borders (Reporters San Frontieres) have condemned the Guyana government’s withdrawal of state advertisements from the Stabroek News.

Cellular operators in Guyana can from February 16 fix rates as low as $7 per minute and as high as $32 per minute, according to their various plans, an order from the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) said.

Secondary school students of forms one to three who are members of the Litchfield Library on the West Coast of Berbice recently participated in a ‘spelling bee’ competition sponsored by the library.