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A 20-year-old prisoner, who says she was given permission by a corporal to go and see her sick child was remanded to prison on Thursday when she appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson Ogle in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on a charge of escaping from lawful custody.

The Guyana Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is launching its feeding programme for the homeless in downtown Georgetown tomorrow in the area between Fogarty’s and Guyana Stores west of the museum.

Digicel announced on Tuesday that it had achieved significant growth in 2007, ending the year with more than six million customers, a total investment exceeding US$1.9 billion across the region and new business operations in Guyana, Suriname and El Salvador.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport is hoping to eliminate late starters in the Mashramani float parade, with penalties being instituted against the laggards.

Wireless Connections says 13 customers have won $10,000 each in its Christmas promotions.

The media lockout from the Guyana Defence Force conference on Thursday is a clear indication of the growing dictatorship in the current administration, the PNCR has said.

The six winners of the Republic Bank ‘Have a Happening Christmas’ loan campaign were presented with their cash winnings yesterday at the Camp Street branch.

Freedom is deteriorating worldwide, the independent human rights organisation Freedom House said in its annual report released this week.

The human services ministry on Thursday launched a social welfare group in Sophia that is mandated to raise the living standards of all women.

Conservation International (CI) was recently the beneficiary of US$20 million in new funds from the World Bank through the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to protect some of the world’s unique and threatened areas, including island ecosystems and temperate forests, a release said.

A $15M dormitory will soon be built at Orealla to house students from that community as well as from neighbouring Siparuta.

Motorcycle bandits struck in the city on Thursday night, robbing a Regent Street internet caf

Singer Guyana Inc yesterday launched its first promotion of the year and also presented the winner of the motorcycle from last year’s promotion with the keys.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) says it has made a number of recommendations to the government which would ease the burden of taxation on the average citizen including a cut in the personal income tax rate and the zero-rating of flour and other food items.

The spate of fires that struck the Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) facilities has raised “serious concerns” and the company has engaged the authorities to do a comprehensive investigation, the shipping company said yesterday.

The PNCR says it has noted President Bharrat Jagdeo’s decision to set up a board of inquiry into the torture allegations being made against the army, but believes that the same should be done for the previous reported cases.

A man, who claimed to have had a past with a woman whose gold chain he is accused of snatching while armed with an ice pick, was yesterday refused bail, when he appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A 37-year-old man accused of carnally knowing a minor was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle remanded to prison a 37-year-old pork-knocker charged with two counts of fraudulent conversion, when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has been taken to court by Fidelity Investment Inc over a probe by Customs officials which raised questions about the origin of a large amount of polar beer.