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The Georgetown City Council is to launch a public awareness and enforcement campaign on December 3 to deal with the worrying problem of accumulation of refuse in different sections of the city.

A pastor caught speeding, who said that he was rushing to start his service on time, was fined $15,000 when he appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court to answer to that charge yesterday.

A man accused of obtaining items by fraud was granted bail when he appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Six armed bandits on Wednesday barged into a West Demerara church and relieved the pastor and congregation of more than $2 million during worship service.

A Berbice man is currently a patient of the Burns Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital after he set himself alight following a misunderstanding with his wife.

Twelve men, including a suspect in last week’s murder and robbery of a Demerara Oxygen Company (DOCOL) employee, were arrested early Wednesday morning when police searched some 14 homes during raids in La Penitence, Albouystown, Albertown, and Diamond, East Bank Demarara.

A 17-year-old boy is hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was stabbed several times about the body by a man with whom he had an old grievance.

Construction on the National Archives building on Homestretch Avenue is in its final stages and it should be open before the end of the year, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr Frank Anthony said on Tuesday.

Police last night captured 19-year-old Linden Roberts called ‘Travis’, who had been on the run since the killing his 14-year-old lover back in March at Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara.

Armed bandits last evening shot a Campbellville teen and robbed him of a quantity of cash and jewellery during a ten-minute robbery spree on a Sheriff Street business place last night.

Magistrate Fazil Azeez on Tuesday dismissed a charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking against a 37-year-old man after his counsel made successful no-case submissions.

The new target date for the beginning of the house-to-house registration exercise is January 7, 2008 and the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has assured the opposition political parties that it has not rescinded its decision to produce new ID cards for all persons captured during the exercise.

More than a month after the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) seized 4,685 carats of rough diamonds worth US$644,000 ($131,665,793) from a Belgian firm, Paul Eastman, the middleman between the company and GGMC was on Tuesday charged with false declaration.

After being on the run for the past five years wanted man Roger Bunbury was yesterday captured by police ranks.

Commonwealth Secretary General Don McKinnon in his pre-Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) message said taking a “stand” on climate change and working for “unending” democracy will headline CHOGM discussions in Uganda on Friday.

Government has appealed Justice William Ramlal’s ruling that no one person can hold the office of Chancellor of the Judiciary and Chief Justice at the same time, and that the simultaneously holding of both positions for an extended period is unconstitutional.

Venezuela’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Nicolas Maduro has promised to send “information” to his Guyanese counterpart on the invasion of Guyana’s territory by the Venezuelan military last week.

Even as police are on a zero-tolerance traffic campaign in response to a recent upsurge in vehicular deaths, motorists continue to use the roadways carelessly resulting in accidents almost on a daily basis.

Each customer who buys a handset or Sim pack with credit will get a gift, Digicel said on Tuesday when it revealed details of its Christmas promotion.

The manner in which remand prisoners are being transported to courts on the West Demerara is a cause of concern for some observers, who said that it was unsafe.