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Former Head of the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) Joseph O’Lall was sacked for violating the rules governing PetroCaribe funds but he is maintaining that he did nothing wrong in creating a US dollar interest-bearing ac-count as he was bringing in more money to the agency by being innovative.

The PNCR’s disciplinary committee has summoned several youth members of the party to answer disciplinary charges and it has also once again ordered PNCR member James McAllister to answer pending charges by January 12, 2008.

Police are still hunting the two men who shot and killed minibus driver Edward Joseph in an ambush early Wednesday morning at Middle Road, La Penitence and precautions are already being taken by the operators of this service.

Suriname on Wednesday announced that it has detained a dozen Guyanese men for armed robberies at sea.

A magazine focusing on the agriculture sector was launched yesterday with farmers being urged by President Bharrat Jagdeo to diversify and become computer literate.

Police say Operation Safeway has resulted in a 44% decrease in fatalities between October 25, 2007 and December 31, 2007.

In the penultimate paragraph of the article titled “Tiny possum, giant rat found in Indonesia’s ‘Lost World’, published in Wednesday’s edition, it was stated that “the cutting and burning of tropical forests minimises the impact of climate change”.

A Weed and Plant Protection Officer from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) unit is expected to support the agriculture ministry’s efforts to clear weeds from drainage canals by assessing and designing a control programme.

Chief Labour Officer Mohamed Akeel says all commercial enterprises that employ labour are required by law to register with the ministry as failure to do so constitutes a breach of the labour laws.

The Region Three chairman says $14M has been allocated to rebuild the primary school at Santa Mission, the lone Amerindian community in the region.

The PNCR has called on the Guyana Bar Association and the Acting Chancellor and Chief Justice to speak out on what it calls recent attempts by President Bharrat Jagdeo to humiliate the judiciary publicly.

After three years of promising Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras to aid in the fight against crime, government announced yesterday that it is looking to have the cameras installed at various public places as well as during public events.

The Mayor and City Council is urging property owners to settle their outstanding tax accounts this month.

Following the death of a 49-year-old man last year November, the police have suspended the driver’s licence of a man who was driving the vehicle involved in the fatal accident.

A 33-year-old man who allegedly chopped another about the body several times was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

A 21-year-old female, charged with the murder of a West Demerara woman appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday and was remanded to prison.

Nine months after two brothers were allegedly beaten and one shot by police while they were riding on a motorcycle in North Sophia, two policemen appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged over the incident.

Three men accused of killing a Campbellville woman and dumping her body in a septic tank yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court and pandemonium later broke out in the courtyard when a woman hurled threatening remarks at one of the accused.

Gunmen operating out of Middle Road, La Penitence yesterday morning fatally shot a minibus driver in a well-planned ambush of passengers on their way to Suriname, the second bullet-riddled murder in the city in a matter of hours.

Law enforcement authorities were up to late last night searching for three gunmen who abandoned a boat with a quantity of arms and ammunition during a shoot-out with security forces in Mahaicony earlier in the day.