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After over a month of legal wrangling drug-accused businessman Barry Datram was released on bail yesterday after Justice Jainarayan Singh Jnr ruled in the High Court that his detention was not lawful.

PNCR Leader Robert Corbin believes weapons issued to the ministry of national deve-lopment under the Forbes Burnham-led administration in the 1970s were returned and he is urging the army to verify its records before making public declarations.

The parents of the 10-year-old boy who was reportedly beaten by Berbice police for stealing have agreed to settle the matter even as a medical report said the child’s body bore “signs of brands inflicted with a flat object”.

A truth and reconciliation commission to look into the PNC period in office from 1966 to 1992 would not help the current state of affairs but such a commission could examine the period in the 1950s and early 1960s, President Bharrat Jagdeo has said.

The price of rice should drop in the next two months or so when the first crop is ready to be harvested, General Manager of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) Jagnarine Singh said on Tuesday.

President Bharrat Jagdeo is urging the Integrity Commission to publish the names of those officials who have not been submitting their statements of income and assets but he did not address the state of the body which has not been functioning since its chairman resigned in April 2006.

A 33-year-old man was airlifted to the Georgetown hospital yesterday from Konawaruk in the Potaro area, after he was shot in the knee during a row with another man.

The Region Five administration says its 2007 projects are 98% complete and $40M was spent on D&I during the year.

A female pedal cyclist died after being hit by a minibus at 50 Village, Corentyne on Tuesday while crossing the road.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is seeking the assistance of employers in verifying the Taxpayer Identification Numbers (TINs) of their employees.

Synergy Holdings Inc says the Amaila Falls Hydroelectric Project will yield benefits to Guyana for generations to come and is asking for time to “do it right”.

The Linden Economic Advancement Programme (LEAP) and Andrew Webb Drilling signed a $43.36M contract yesterday for the construction of the Moblissa Water System.

The body of an unidentified man of East Indian descent bearing suspected marks of violence was found among some bushes alongside the public road at Letter T Village, East Coast Demerara.

The Eccles/Ramsburg Neigh-bourhood Democratic Coun-cil (NDC) is reactivating its education partnership with parent-teacher associations, businesses and outstanding persons and teachers from the community besides other stakeholders to work along with the schools.

The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) is experiencing difficulties with the timely delivery of mail owing to problems with its fleet of vehicles used to transport the mail, the corporation’s Board Chairman Juan Edghill disclosed on Monday.

A 43-year-old painter, who beat and robbed an acquaintance after the man told him he had no change to give him in return for a lift on his bicycle, was yesterday refused bail when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on a charge of robbery with violence.

A 53-year-old mother of three who has been accused of stealing over $300,000 in household items and beverages during a one-year period from a house which she was asked to take care of, appeared yesterday before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle and was remanded to prison.

Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday remanded a 22-year-old man to prison after he was accused of breaking into a business woman’s storage bond and carting off more than $600,000 worth of articles, including electronic items.

Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday granted a GDF corporal charged with raping two women $175,000 bail when he appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court.

The police have issued a wanted bulletin for Ashton Anthony in relation to the seizure of firearms and ammunition at Zeskendren drainage canal, Mahaicony on Wednesday last.