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A 26-year-old man who allegedly raped a woman he met at a creek was yesterday remanded to prison when he was brought before Magis-trate Melissa Robertson-Ogle in the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court.

A Guyhoc Park man was on Wednesday remanded for allegedly unlawfully and maliciously wounding his reputed wife.

With expressions of intense grief, Lusignan bid goodbye to ten of its slain residents in ceremonies by three different faiths yesterday.

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Outrage overtook grief at the Lyken’s Funeral Parlour yesterday morning, as upset relatives of the deceased army corporal Ivor Williams expressed disappointment at the “inferior coffin” provided by the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) for his burial.

The security forces yesterday morning arrested five suspected gunmen during a major offensive in Buxton, hours after they killed two others during a gun battle in the backdam on Wednesday evening.

A motorcyclist was shot dead in Campbellville last night just after 10pm.

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) has called on those who hold high public or political office to avoid usurping the police function, even in speaking impromptu, by identifying by direct words or implication the so-called perpetrators of the Lusignan massacre, or its intellectual authors or those who ‘centrally directed’ it or any community which allegedly inspired it.

Government’s intervention to help bring relief to consumers in the face of the increased price for rice on the local market kicked into gear Monday with the commodity being available at $325 per gallon at three locations in the city.

The Mayor and City Council says it is conducting an audit of its public relations department.

The two major local beverage manufacturers and a key importer are to write the Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh to raise their concerns about smuggling and to request a meeting on the issue.

The Anglican Church in Guyana has denounced the Lusignan murders as a “barbaric deed” and assured the bereaved of its sympathy.

President Bharrat Jagdeo wants the main opposition PNCR to publicly acknowledge that Buxton is a safe haven for criminals before he engages in any discussion with it on crime and security but opposition leader Robert Corbin says it’s a pity the President is indulging in such behaviour at a time like this.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) in expressing its categorical condemnation of the slaying of 11 citizens at Lusignan last Saturday said all peace loving Guyanese should speak out against this atrocity and the government must take immediate corrective measures to avoid any recurrence.

Independence activist and a former member of the PPP Cabinet from 1961 to 1964, Cedric Vernon Nunes died in Birmingham, UK on January 30, 2008 after a period of illness.

A sunglasses vendor and his customer were on Tuesday brought before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on charges of unlawfully assaulting each other.

A man who allegedly used indecent language to and assaulted his wife was yesterday refused bail when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The hunter who is accused of shooting a cane harvester to death was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Reliance Court yesterday before Magistrate Geeta Chandan.

A 20-year-old businessman who tried to get a customer off his premises was on Tuesday taken before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on a charge of unlawful assault.

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