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The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has been taken to court by Fidelity Investment Inc over a probe by Customs officials which raised questions about the origin of a large amount of polar beer.

Several hours after he was arrested over a larceny allegation, a 24-year-old man was yesterday afternoon found hanging in the Enmore Police Outpost lock-ups and was later pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Two persons, who were detained at the Cove and John Police Station, for the murder of an overseas-based Guyanese, have confessed to the crime, police sources say.

The Clerical and Commercial Workers’ Union (CCWU) and the Bank of Baroda recently signed a three-year Collective Labour Agreement that outlines improvement in salaries and other conditions of employment which are said to be substantial.

The sum of about US$1 million in world cup ticket sales claimed by the Guyana Government from the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is in dispute, the board says.

The Scout Association said Tuesday marked 100 years since the first publication of the book, Scouting for Boys and the beginning of world scouting.

The President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Michael de la Bastide, has expressed the hope that more countries will accept the appellate jurisdiction of the CCJ as the final court.

Rice Producers Association (RPA) worker, Mohamed Khan, who has been confined to a wheelchair since a 2004 accident, has finally secured the funds to undergo surgery that might allow him to walk again, in India.

Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, says Guyana has progressed in the fight against malaria and the battle against the mosquito-borne disease will be ramped up in the vulnerable regions 7 and 8.

Bartica businessmen say they have already begun to suffer substantial losses due to the severe power shortages the area has been experiencing over the last three days.

The success rate of the poverty reduction strategy papers over the last five years has been minimal with no significant reduction in moderate and extreme poverty levels countrywide.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Guyana Prison Service was yesterday inked for the restart of agricultural activities at the prisons which would ensure self-sufficiency in food.

To date Barbados, Anguilla, Dominica, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Trinidad and Tobago and Antigua have already indicated interest in all areas of participation in the Tenth Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) which will be held from August 22 to 31.

An unlicensed driver, who led a police corporal on a merry chase along several city streets, was yesterday fined $120,000 when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Female parliamentarians on Wednesday pooled their ideas on the ‘Stamp it out!’

Four more former PNCR central executive members have been summoned to respond to charges by the party’s disciplinary committee bringing the total of those summoned to nine with three still to be called.

A 20-year-old chain-snatching accused, who said that the complainant’s jewellery fell off when the man got into a fight with him, was remanded to prison yesterday after he spun his tale in court.

An Albouystown man who allegedly invaded Young’s Bakery on Saffon Street and robbed the proprietrix of a quantity of cash at gunpoint before escaping, yesterday appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton and was remanded to prison.

A seaman who failed to purchase building materials with the money given to him for that purpose and instead used it for his own benefit was yesterday given a day to get the money or face jail.

A man was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on a charge of trafficking in narcotics.