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Two gunmen were reportedly last evening killed during an almost hour-long shoot-out with joint services ranks in the Buxton backlands.

After two days of relative calm, unrest returned to the East Coast corridor yesterday and close to 200 angry residents were prevented from marching to the city to condemn Saturday’s massacre at Lusignan.

A three-year-old girl was fatally shot at her Laing Avenue, West Ruimveldt home yesterday, while she and her two-year-old brother were playing with a loaded gun that was left under a chair cushion by their father.

Trevor Kissoon also called Banister was on Tuesday placed on $75,000 bail for unlawfully and maliciously wounding Prem Lall on November 30 last year over a triangular love affair.

The police are looking for a minibus driver who may have assisted the missing Tenisha Morgan of Friendship, East Coast Demerara, in catching transportation at the Berbice bus park on the day she was last seen.

The bodies of the other ten persons who were slaughtered in the Lusignan attack on Saturday morning will be available for public viewing at the Lusignan tarmac from 1.30 pm today, following which some will be buried and the others cremated.

The charge of torture against the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is a serious accusation which needs to be cleared up as soon as possible, according to former President Mrs Janet Jagan.

In the wake of the attack at Lusignan that left 11 dead and three injured and the death of a Guyana Defence Force soldier, government has declared today a national day of mourning.

The sixth Secondary Schools Drama Festival is billed for April this year at the Theatre Guild Playhouse which is now undergoing extensive renovations.

The Berbice Chamber of Commerce and Development Association has condemned the brutal slaying of innocent children and their parents in the recent Lusignan attack and has appealed for peace.

The Guyana Defence Force in a press release has stated emphatically that wanted man Rondell Rawlins was never a member of the army.

Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday discharged the case against Rabindra Rooplall, who had been charged with the murder of a taxi-driver in 2002, after he found that there was no evidence against him.

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 27-year-old Sophia resident, who went to visit a friend at Linden and died at the hospital after complaining of feeling unwell.

Two more Justices of Appeal were yesterday sworn in before President Bharrat Jagdeo at the Office of the President.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) in collaboration with the World Bank yesterday signed two contracts with international contractors for the construction of Water Treatment Plants (WTP) and the supply of water meters and boxes.

CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington and staff of the Secretariat are urging the security forces here to move swiftly to bring to justice those responsible for the “atrocious and traumatic” slaying of 11 persons in Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, last Saturday In a note to President Bharrat Jagdeo, condemning the killings, the Secretary-General said the “appalling crime

A 49-year-old Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara housewife was on Tuesday night robbed of cash and jewellery by a lone bandit, who fled leaving behind an unlicensed gun and some documents, after an alarm was raised.

A 48-year-old man died when he lost control of the car that he was driving and crashed into a concrete post at Success, East Coast Demerara early yesterday morning.

Referring to the brutal slaying of 11 persons, including five children, at Lusignan last Saturday morning, the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) said those in political office must be held responsible and urged the international community to stop being passive bystanders in a seemingly escalating national crisis.

Very soon the old power grid at West Ruimveldt will be down and a new distribution network built for the area last year would be up and running.