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A man has been arrested after police found an unlicensed Taurus revolver and matching rounds at a Corentyne house on Tuesday.

Gunmen at Riverview, Ruimveldt, last night opened fire on a police vehicle and within a matter of minutes the entire area was cordoned off and crawling with heavily armed ranks.

The government has no intention of engaging criminals in any dialogue and will continue to take an aggressive approach to those hiding out in the East Coast backlands.

Two armed bandits sparked terror in Canal Number Two early yesterday morning when they broke into two houses on the Conservancy Dam, assaulting occupants including small children, before escaping into the thick bush with a quantity of items including jewellery.

The Government has resorted to selling some the remaining BMWs for a price of $9M each, forgoing significant duties that would have been payable on the luxury vehicles that had been bought for the Cricket World Cup.

Justice Jainarayan Singh Jr has quashed a decision by the Minister of Public Works and the aviation authority to ground an Air Services Limited (ASL) Cessna and has ordered them to show cause why the order should not be made absolute.

Haiti has ratified the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas and in accepting the official document CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington expressed his delight and quipped “it has been a long time in coming.”

Jerome Ganga of Friendship, East Bank Demerara lived by the bottle and on Tuesday he reportedly died hours after taking his last drink.

The examples of what is currently undermining governance and other facets of the society may be small but they indicate the level of corruption taking place in the country and the state of its economy, Jesuit priest and social activist, Fr Malcolm Rodrigues says.

Police ranks and officials from the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) were on Tuesday night caught in gunfire while returning from Hog Island where they found 17 drums of suspected illegal fuel, among other items.

With the roof “leaking like a basket” and zinc sheets flapping in the breeze, the dispensation of justice in some courts is subject to the weather.

Police arrested a taxi driver after a Brazilian miner was attacked and robbed of cash and a large amount of diamonds at Hope Public Road, East Bank Demerara yesterday.

Digicel says its first year of operation in Guyana has been phenomenal and that its customer base has grown to over 200,000.

Police apprehended two men, who discarded their unlicensed guns and attempted to flee, during a mobile patrol along Mandela Avenue.

The Fruta juice advisory issued by the Ministry of Health has been rescinded and it is now advising distributors that the beverage can be distributed without any restrictions.

An Amerindian village will be recreated at the Sophia Exhibition Complex to give Carifesta patrons an opportunity to experience the lifestyle and culture of local indigenous peoples.

The absence of a properly constituted Police Service Commission (PSC) would delay any disciplinary action being taken against senior officers found in dereliction of duty as regard their response to calls about the Lusignan massacre.

Police yesterday said that they had received a report from the mother of missing teenager Tenisha Morgan on Tuesday saying that she was stuck on a dam surrounded by bush with a river on one side.

A post-mortem examination conducted on the remains found at Brushe Dam could not determine the cause of death but revealed other clues that could help police identify the victim.

A pump attendant, who was on trial in the High Court for the rape of an 11-year-old girl nearly three years ago, was freed yesterday after a jury found him not guilty.