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The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport last week celebrated the work of the late National Poet Martin Carter at a reception titled the “Festival of Words” hosted at the Umana Yana.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) says four mobile power generating sets imported from the USA are up and running and can provide for the seasonal high demands.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) is calling for more a consistent bail policy for persons accused of sexual offences.

A Guyanese woman who was already processed for departure onboard a Caribbean Airlines flight to Barbados was yesterday intercepted with a quantity of cocaine compressed between the pages of books and photo albums.

A taxi-driver accused of sexually assaulting a woman on two occasions will spend Christmas in jail after Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle remanded him when he appeared before her to answer to the charges.

The PNCR is calling for a thorough investigation into the killing of 22-year-old Ronald Anthony Parris, of Old England, Upper Demerara, allegedly by “elements” of the Guyana Police Force on December 13, 2007.

Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle on Friday sentenced an Albouystown man who admitted to threatening his girlfriend, breaking into her home and burning a quantity of her clothing, to eight years jail after she ordered that he be taken from the court room due to his continued disorderly behaviour.

Justice Jainarayan Singh Jr has ordered the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to allocate monies equitably to the combined parliamentary opposition parties to offset their respective expenses for the scruntineering activities in the upcoming house-to-house registration exercise.

Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle on Tuesday remanded a labourer to prison after he was accused of attempting to purchase over $1M in electrical items from a city store using a fake cheque.

A 45-year-old America Street money-changer was shot on Wednesday night and robbed by two bandits of an undisclosed amount of money and his licensed firearm, seconds after he arrived home.

Government has spent some $279 million on the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) this year and work is still ongoing to cope with the current rainy season, which is expected to last into the new year.

The Guyanese man held in the US in August with 35 kilogrammes of cocaine has changed his plea to the charge of importing narcotics into the US to guilty and will be sentenced next year.

A Canje householder put up a fight, but was eventually beaten and robbed by armed bandits who broke into his home in the wee hours of Tuesday, and left his family traumatised.

Grace Kennedy Remittances Services (GKRS) says every customer who visits any of its Western Union and Bill Express branches will receive a gift for a child through its ‘Give a Gift’ Christmas initiative.

LIAT flights across the region should be back to normal today following a flight attendants sickout on Wednesday which caused a series of cancellations and affected hundreds of passengers.

A probation officer at New Amsterdam has been removed from a sexual abuse case after a magistrate expressed dissatisfaction with a report submitted to the court.

Vision Guyana Chairman Peter Ramsaroop last week said he is disappointed with the government and opposition’s response to Venezuela’s apology over the recent invasion at Cuyuni.

The union representing the majority of Guyana Power and Light (GPL) employees is seeking the Ministry of Labour’s intervention into what it calls negotiations in bad faith on the part of the company.

A US$3.7M ($758M) programme aimed at eliminating malaria in Region Nine over a five-year period was on Thursday introduced to regional officials and other stakeholders, a Government Information Agency (GINA) press release said.

A 38-year-old chain-saw operator was hospitalized with a gunshot wound in his right foot after he walked into a gun trap at Upper Aruka, North West District yesterday.