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The Region Three Regional Administration Office said rehabilitation works on the Windsor Forest Community Centre are complete.

Four persons were arrested at #70 Village, Corentyne, Berbice on Wednesday following the attempted armed robbery of a goldsmith’s shop and a joiner’s shop.

The Queenstown, Essequibo Coast Community-Based Rehabilitation Centre is working to build its membership so that all of the region’s differently-abled persons can be accommodated.

The US government is continuing to oppose a bail application for Roger Khan, saying the drug-indicted Guyanese businessman remains a flight risk.

The mini-bus operators plying the Georgetown to Mahdia route have stopped operating their vehicles to protest the hike in the bridge-crossing fee due to the newly implemented Value Added Tax (VAT).

Trinidad Cement Ltd of Trinidad and Tobago is the first company on the official listing of the Guyana Association of Securities Companies and Intermediaries Inc (GASCI), Guyana’s Stock Exchange.

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.

An 18-year-old cane harvester was denied his pre-trial liberty when he appeared at the Reliance Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of rape before Magistrate Geeta Chandan.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday remanded to prison a Linden businessman who pleaded not guilty to three charges of unlawful possession when he appeared before him at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday denied bail to a Brazilian man who police allegedly found with a gun and ammunition in his possession.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday placed a postmaster and a postal clerk attached to the Mahaicony Post Office on $200,000 bail each for allegedly stealing just over $1.5 million on two different occasions.

A supermarket, a hardware store and a restaurant are to be charged by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) for contravening the Value Added Tax (VAT) law.

A man who allegedly murdered a Friendship man on Christmas Eve night was yesterday refused bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

The year began tragically for a Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo family after a man with a history of mental illness yesterday chopped his wife within an inch of her life before committing suicide by hanging himself as their four children looked on.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan remanded to prison a man accused of murdering another when he appeared yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.