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President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday announced a wide-ranging probe to determine how many weapons were issued to government departments under the late Forbes Burnham-led administration by the security forces and have not been returned.

The City Council on Monday ordered a complete investigation into the operations of its Finance Department and the terms, form and scope of the probe will be crafted immediately with the assistance of the Auditor General’s Office.

A 12-year-old boy, who said that three police officers slapped, beat and kicked him faced two of them in court yesterday and repeated the allegations.

Four teenagers accused of gang raping a 44-year-old woman shortly after breaking into her Essequibo home, were yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee says juveniles are never placed in the same holding facilities as adults at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Courts nor are they transported to detention centres in the same vehicles as adults.

The education ministry on Wednesday hosted a one-day workshop to review teacher education and training, among other issues, in order to strengthen the Education Strategic Plan.

A $10M generator and electrical panels will be installed by Friday at the Leonora Diagnostic and Treatment Centre to provide a 24-hour supply of electricity to the facility on the West Coast of Demerara.

After a year of promoting behavioural change through a radio serial drama, Merundoi is expanding to take on the status of an independent, non-governmental organization that will continue to focus on HIV/AIDS but also tackle other serious non-health issues.

Drainage and irrigation works estimated at $117M recently undertaken at Western Hog Island, are expected to boost agricultural production and facilitate the cultivation of non-traditional produce.

Researcher and columnist Janette Bulkan believes Guyana must take a more active role in presenting its case with respect to climate change if it wants to be taken seriously on the world stage.

The Georgetown Public Hospital said an 11-year-old New Amsterdam boy and a four-year-old boy from Kitty were admitted to its paediatric ward nursing injuries about their bodies.

The distribution of funds for party scrutineering activities in the house-to-house registration exercise called for “more intense and better planned engagements” among opposition parties.

President Bharrat Jagdeo announced yesterday that a Board of Inquiry has been set up to investigate the allegations of torture made against the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).

Classes at St Barnabas Special School were disrupted yesterday after four teachers protested the presence of another who they say is too abusive and intolerable to work with.

Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran, was elected a Member of the Standing Committee of the Conference of Commonwealth Speakers and Presiding Officers at a recent seminar held in London.

The strike at the power company has been called off after the union representing the majority of employees and management signed terms of resumption, which should also see discussions between the two on Friday.

The government says it may sue the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) if it does not receive the over US$1 million it is owed for staging six Super Eight matches during the Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007 tournament last year.

Construction of the Marriott-flagged hotel is scheduled to start at month end with the diversion of sewerage lines in the Kingston area where the hotel is to be built, President Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday.

As relatives of a ten-year-old boy of Sisters Village, East Berbice prepare to take legal action against a police officer for allegedly beating him for stealing money, senior officers contacted them to “settle the matter”.

The Linden Mayor and Town Council has expressed satisfaction with the recent move by Mackenzie vendors to occupy the newly constructed Mackenzie wharf.