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A 22-year-old mason of Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, charged with robbery under arms at Vickram’s Jewellery was refused bail when he appeared before Magistrate Geeta Chandan at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.

Phase Three of public ticketing for the ICC CWC 2007 matches has been pushed back to February 1 and the distribution of tickets to those persons who made purchases in Phases One and Two has also been delayed.

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has announced a new disconnection campaign in a bid to recover $2.4B from defaulting customers.

The city’s departments which had their power cut off recently in a row over money had their electricity restored yesterday following fruitful discussions between the Mayor and City Council and the power company.

The Ministry of Health is placing heightened focus on mental health, building a strong surveillance system for infectious diseases and raising life expectancy among other things as part of its work plan for 2007.

The ten-year-old boy who was hit by a car a stone’s throw away from the East La Penitence Police Station and his home on Christmas Day, succumbed yesterday to the massive head injuries he sustained.

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security plans to provide counselling to the 13-year-old mother whose five-day-old baby was taken by a woman who allegedly sent her to buy clothes for the child.

The Freedom of Information legislation that aims to allow public access to government bodies has not yet been tabled in the National Assembly.

The General Manager of Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel has “no comment” to make on President Bharrat Jagdeo’s remarks that the rooms at the international hotel were “atrocious.”

The proposal from Govern-ment to introduce casino gambling, according to Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon is not a done deal and all stakeholders would be given a chance to press their case.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton further remanded into police custody, Cyril Bovell, the father of now dead wanted man Neil Bovell when he made his first appearance before her at the Wales Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

The trial of Swiss House Cambio boss Farouk Razac and his wife Carolan Lynch, who were charged with allegedly having a gun and ammunition at their home is set for March 5.

Four days after the 16% Value Added Tax (VAT) was introduced a range of questionable practices continued amid widespread uncertainty and frustration among consumers and the head of the Georgetown Chamber acknowledged that there was confusion.

The controversial parking lot outside the Celina Atlantic resort, Kitty has received further attention from the Guyana Police force’s traffic department following a recent embarrassing lapse and now the entire area has been yellow-lined and a more prominent no-parking sign has been painted on.

Town Clerk Beulah Williams on Wednesday met with senior officers to discuss issues affecting the administration’s performance and some of its plans to ensure that public health standards are maintained during the Cricket World Cup (CWC).

The 20 BMW vehicles being purchased by government for use during the upcoming Rio Summit and during the Cricket World Cup super eight matches are expected here by next month end.

The bill being laid in parliament on Thursday to authorise casino gambling provides for a gaming authority and “no more than three casino premises licences” in any region and the main opposition PNCR-1G yesterday signalled it would strenuously oppose the legislation.

The threatened city strike action has been put on the back burner since Guyana Labour Union General Secretary Carvil Duncan is now waiting to see if the Georgetown municipality will ‘stump up’ the second half of its last year’s debt to workers.

Two masked men broke into a house at Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke-Linden Highway yesterday and stole two firearms and a video camera.

The National Centre for Education Resource Deve-lopment (NCERD) says that the final examination for the National Grade Six Assess-ment is set for April.