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Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday jailed a man for three years and fined him $30,000 after the man changed his plea and admitted to having 140 grammes of ganja for trafficking last year.

Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys yesterday issued an arrest warrant for James Gibson, an ex-soldier, who once again failed to show up at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for his possession of ammunition and firearm trial.

A pregnant 18-year-old who is accused of stealing a quantity of items including cellular phones and accessories from her ex-boyfriend yesterday appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle and was released on $50,000 bail.

A Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) officer who attempted to pervert the course of justice by failing to give evidence in a narcotics matter appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on two charges.

Since his history-making heart surgery nearly two months ago, Manmohan Singh has been adjusting to a life of restricted movement, a smaller diet and selected hours for medication.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) said it found it very disturbing that the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) was now allegedly engaged in torturing citizens — atrocities previously associated with the police – and it would seek answers from the army.

Police have held two more persons as investigations continue into the murder of 56-year-old Colleen Forrester, whose bloated body was recovered from inside a septic tank at Campbellville on Sunday.

Faced with a number of challenges, local dairy company Moogoodies is shifting to concentrating on primary production instead of value-added processing, until some measure of viability returns to the local dairy manufacturing sector.

A 23-year-old woman was on Sunday night stabbed to death, allegedly by another female, while visiting her New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop marital home.

The government through the Guyana Forestry Commis-sion (GFC) has granted a State Forest Exploratory Permit to American wood processing outfit Simon and Shock Inc (SSI), after months of due diligence and some tension between the company and the Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest).

The first New Year baby born in Ontario, Canada, was to a Guyanese family, who said the baby was ten days early.

An Essequibo youth who went bathing at a creek in the company of a relative died yesterday after hitting his head on a boat during a dive.

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a fire of unknown origin that totally destroyed a Lusignan, East Coast Demerara home on Friday night.

Countrywide house-to-house registration got underway yesterday and is expected to continue over the next six months in preparation for local government elections.

A Guyanese mother of three became a New York jackpot winner last month when her numbers matched the $18 million jackpot up for grabs.

A Diamond woman who was reportedly assaulted with a broken bottle by another woman was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital nursing injuries to her face yesterday.

Two persons who were seriously wounded in separate stabbing incidents outside the city yesterday morning are currently nursing injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The University of Guyana in partnership with the Nova SouthEastern University of Florida, USA has introduced a one-off Masters of Education programme, which will be effected through interactive classes at the local campuses and online.

A Guyana-born businessman ‘Dennis’ Alphonso, who was described as one of the territory’s most prolific and prominent businessmen, died on Christmas day in Maryland, USA at the age of 65 and was laid to rest last Saturday in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) where he lived.

Justice Jainarayan Singh Jnr yesterday issued a nisi order prohibiting the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack from moving to reopen the Preliminary Inquiry into the murder of Farouk Razac following the freeing of his wife Carolan Lynch on the charge.