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Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday remanded a 28-year-old female on a charge of possession of 120 grammes of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.

A pensioner and a coconut vendor who were involved in an altercation last week were yesterday placed on $50,000 and $35,000 bail respectively when they appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

A man, who was accused of throwing pepper sauce in a woman’s face, was yesterday placed on $25,000 bail, when he appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle on Monday released a 24-year-old market porter on $30,000 bail after he denied snatching a gold chain and stealing a t-shirt, when he appeared before her in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The taxi driver accused of driving the getaway car used in the $60M robbery of an Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara businessman last month was on Monday granted $10M bail by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle when he made his second court appearance.

As the unemployment rate in Linden climbs, the Region Ten RDC said it is concerned that contractors are bringing both skilled and unskilled workers into the town to work on projects they have been awarded in the area.

Former Prime Minister under the Forbes Burnham-led PNC administration, Hamilton Green says that he has no knowledge of the movement of weapons from the army to government ministries in the 1970s.

Justice Brassington Reynolds quashed the High Court indictment of two men yesterday, nearly 12 years after they were charged and committed to stand trial over an arms find at Mahaicony, ruling that their committal in the lower court was a nullity.

Acting Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack weighing-in on the saga surrounding businessman Barry Datram, said Justice Jainarayan Singh Jr had no jurisdiction to determine the validity of the provisional arrest warrants issued for the man and his three decisions could therefore be considered an abuse of the court’s process.

The police in Linden are investigating an armed robbery committed on a Chinese restaurant on Monday night by three men who escaped with $50,000 and a motor vehicle.

Groundstar Resources Limited is still hopeful that another company will partner with it for oil exploration and drilling in the Takutu Basin and by July their plans should be firmly on the table, according to a source in the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC).

Guyanese are increasingly educating themselves about alternative sources of energy, representatives of two local companies that operate in the sector have said.

The Caribbean Public Procurement Institute says it will bring together some of the world’s leading faculty when its hosts a two-day conference in March.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) said it worked continuously in 2007 to promote standardisation and quality systems countrywide and did over 2,000 inspections which ended in the destruction of 2,229 used tyres.

The Fourth Joint Meeting of the Caricom Standing Committee of Immigration and Customs deliberated further on the current border security initiatives to determine the next steps in the programme for regional immigration and customs for 2008-2009.

The majority of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAS) who are benefiting from the Food Bank Initiative under the National AIDS Pro-gramme (NAP) are unemployed, with the second largest number being single parents.

Belizeans go to the polls on February 7 and a keen battle is expected between the incumbent People’s United Party (PUP) under the leadership of Prime Minister, Said Musa who will seek to return to office for the third consecutive time, and Dean Barrow’s United Democratic Party (UDP) During the past 13 months general elections were held in several Caribbean countries and in most, the electorates have decided for a change.

A 47-year-old woman was chopped in the head by a cutlass-wielding man, who was shortly after captured by public-spirited citizens following a chase at Lamaha Park yesterday.

Six persons were deported from Suriname, French Guiana and the United States between January 3 and January 10 after committing various crimes in those countries.

An Inter-Agency Committee tasked with managing security at the CJIA yesterday hosted its inaugural meeting.