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Police are trying to ascertain the identity of a man who was found in a trench at Block E South Sophia this morning with a suspected gunshot wound to the back of the head.

Dexter Marshall, the brother of Steve Jupiter, was yesterday charged with murdering Mark Caesar also known as `Lil Mark.

COPIAPO, Chile, (Reuters) – Chilean rescuers today finished drilling an escape shaft for 33 miners  trapped deep underground after a cave-in over two months ago,  triggering cheers and tears from relatives on the surface.

A dazed Bibi Sharima Gopaul and her partner Jarvis Small were this afternoon jointly charged with the murder of her 16-year-old daughter Neesa Gopaul.

Police this evening issued an arrest warrant for businessman Royston Penniston for questioning in relation to murder.

Police at midday released three more bulletins in relation to an extensive murder probe including one for businessman Salim Juman Azeez of West Bank Demerara.

Guyana’s Aliann Pompey secured a bronze medal in the finals of the women’s 400 metres today at the XIX Commonwealth Games held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, in New Delhi, Indian.

Police tonight issued bulletins for ten persons in relation to murder and the list included ex-policemen and Bramanand Nandalall who had been the subject of a major investigation by Canadian Mounties around 15 years ago and had been kidnapped at the height of the 2002-3 crime spree.

Two men were shot dead on Campbell Avenue about 8.15 pm tonight, the latest in a series of mysterious shootings.

Police tonight said that the headless body found at the Emerald Tower resort at Madewini yesterday is that of 16-year-old Neesa Lalita Gopaul of Leonora and three persons are in custody.

Your Excellency, President Jagdeo, on behalf of the many thousands of our Alluvial Gold & Diamond Miners, we plead with you to stop any implementation of all the “draconian” mining regulations, some of which were introduced in the past, and many more “IMPOSSIBLE TO MINE CONDITIONS, which the SLUC has sent to you previously, and a set of similar additional conditions, which they are about to send to you now.

Retired army brigadier David Granger tonight confirmed a report on Capitol News that he had been nominated by a PNCR group to be the party’s presidential candidate at the 2011 general elections and he has accepted the nomination.

The bodies of two large scale miners were this morning discovered at a  gold dealer’s residence in Second Avenue, Bartica.

-feared being killed, denies involvement in crimes Wanted man Tyrone `Cobra’ Rowe turned himself in this morning and is being grilled by the police over allegations that he committed a murder and several gun-point robberies.

Police this afternoon released a photo of wanted man Tyrone Kacey Rowe known as `Cobra’.

Adnan el-Shukrijumah, who reports say was once spotted in Guyana and whose father was born here is the new head of al-Qaeda operations, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has told the Associated Press.

One man was shot dead tonight on the Plaisance line top and two others were injured in a robbery.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Two Islamist militants were  found guilty today by a federal jury of plotting to bomb  New York’s John F.

PARAMARIBO, (Reuters) – Former coup leader and  military strongman Desi Bouterse was elected president of  Suriname by the South American country’s parliament today,  lawmakers said.

Severe flooding in the Region 10 area over the past several days has now resulted in the road connecting Linden to Kwakwani being impassable.