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A two-day workshop aimed at deepening relations between media operatives and members of the police force opened yesterday at the British High Commission’s Main Street Office.

The semi-finals of the Children’s Mashramani costume competition rolled off on Thursday with pulsating soca music as host Travis Chase urged the enthusiastic children to make some noise at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, following a late start owing to inclement weather.

Residents of Leguan told a visiting team of officials last weekend that the lack of proper drainage has been affecting both farmlands and residential areas, and flooding was inevitable, especially during high tides and heavy rainfall.

Thirteen students from the Kuru Kuru Training Centre on Thursday toured the Eccles Water Treatment Plant to observe its operations.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton remanded two men to prison on Wednesday, when they appeared before her charged with possession of narcotics.

A 49-year-old man who allegedly abused his ex-wife in a public place was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, charged with unlawful assault and using threatening behaviour.

A pastor and his sister charged with wounding a man were each placed on $100,000 bail on Thursday when they appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A 41-year-old watch vendor who stole two tins of insecticide from a Water Street store was placed on a year’s bond to keep the peace on Wednesday, when he appeared before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A 43-year-old female who wounded her reputed husband with a ketchup bottle was yesterday placed on self-bail when she was charged and taken before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Three policemen accused of taking $30,000 as a bribe from a man for not charging his son who was in police custody, were yesterday freed when the complainant said the money was being passed to his son and declined to proceed with the matter Lester Kitt, 29, of 543 South Sophia, Georgetown; Kelvin Mitchell, 27, of 41 Pattensen, Turkeyen; and Ryvan Alleyne, 27, of 165 East Ruimveldt appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with corrupt transaction by a government agent.

A 54-year-old man who was on Monday remanded to prison over allegedly attempting murder his wife was yesterday granted $200,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Magistrate Tejnarine Ramroop yesterday dismissed the case against forty persons who were charged for “as-sembling in a public way for disorderly purpose” when it was called at the Fort Wellington Court.

The case against three Bolivians who were allegedly found with cocaine last year aboard a minibus that was heading to the city en route from Lethem was dismissed at the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday for want of prosecution.

After around 30 minutes of dialogue on recompense for farms hit by the clearing of the backlands, Buxtonians yesterday stormed out of a meeting with Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud after he said that President Bharrat Jagdeo had not branded farmers aback of the village as criminals.

Mon Repos residents during a meeting with members of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) yesterday said that they are still living in fear following the massacre of 11 at Lusignan and they were urged to promote harmony and good relations among themselves so that they can overcome it.

The Environmental Protec-tion Agency (EPA) says it has been following up a recent pollution complaint against Guyana Stockfeeds Inc.

In a meeting with Christian leaders from Buxton yesterday on farming concerns, President Bharrat Jagdeo asserted that the vast majority of people living in the village are decent, law-abiding citizens.

Police are to issue a wanted bulletin for the ex-husband of Alpha Hotel owner Roseanne Hall who mysteriously disappeared over a week ago as her husband remained in police custody assisting with investigations.

Inadequate navigation aids at the Cheddi Jagan Inter-national Airport, Timehri has been the major contributor to LIAT’s left luggage woes, the Caribbean carrier’s Chief Executive Officer Mark Darby told the media yesterday.

The Joint Services is calling on members of the public, particularly motorists, to cooperate by giving way to them as they traverse the roadway.