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(Jamaica Observer) A number of Jamaican women facing deportation from Britain have refused that country’s offer of £5,000 to assist them to re-settle in their homeland before their prison sentences end, fearing that accepting this money will jeopardise the chances of winning their deportation appeal.
– below target production threatens cash flow, GuySuCo warns Workers across the sugar belt went on strike to press for higher wages yesterday with the Guyana Sugar Corpora-tion (GuySuCo) warning that unless production is upped, it would be unable to offer a “reasonable” increase.
Mother, stepfather further remanded over Neesa’s murder The mother and stepfather of slain teenager Neesa Lalita Gopaul yesterday made their second appearance before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court charged with her murder and were further remanded to prison.
– spoilt meat suspected to be source Five persons are in custody as police continue to probe the reason why over 100 members of the ‘B’ Division Community Policing Group suffered food poisoning after having lunch at a retreat on Sunday.
A push-cart operator is alleging that PPP’s Freedom House guards assaulted him on Friday and an official said that an investigation has been launched into the claims.
The EducationUSA Advising Center at the US Embassy in Georgetown will hold its first college fair on Monday, October 25 at School of the Nations, New Market Street, the embassy said in a press release yesterday.
Four Continuing Promise 2010 (CP10) members of the US Marine Service with Guyanese roots will meet their relatives here on Friday.
– after farmer attacked chopped The body of 21-year-old Leroy Colin Cornelius of 2834 Central Amelia’s Ward, Mackenzie, Linden was found on a farm at Moblissa along the Linden/ Soesdyke Highway bearing a single gunshot wound.
The three men accused of robbing pregnant Port Kaituma woman Jacqueline James of $7 million in cash and raw gold were yesterday remanded to prison when they made their appearance before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
A man accused of having a firearm and a quantity of ammunition in his possession without licence was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
– admits she is unable to care for them No suitable accommodation has been found for the three children hospitalized after their release from state care but Human Services Ministry Permanent Secretary Trevor Thomas said they will not be returned to their mother, who has indicated that she is unable to adequately care for them.
– despite focus on stepped up farming, exports (This is the eighth part in a series on the Grow More Food campaign)Many days the Parika Pack House is silent with little activity inside the vast building.
About 600 more house lots were distributed on Saturday when the Ministry of Housing held its third ‘One Stop Shop’ exercise in Region Three, where it issued lots for the Schoonord housing establishment.
Synergy Holdings has commenced phase one of the Amaila Falls roads project and has started clearing the area in preparation for the construction of the road, Senior Government Engineer Walter Willis says.
Doodnauth Sookraj, 40, and Nigel Wright, 33, who were hospitalized on Sunday evening following separate accidents, succumbed to their injuries early yesterday morning.
The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club in collaboration with Zara Apartments recently honoured outstanding Grade Six students, teachers and head teachers at the club’s 20th anniversary celebration.
– Justice Singh Chancellor (ag) Justice Carl Singh says judicial training is an “absolute requirement” in the fight to end violence against women and according to him, judges and magistrates need to understand the social underpinnings that inform the promulgation of legislation on the issue.
The Kaneville family that was on Sunday brutalized and robbed by armed bandits yesterday received another threatening telephone call and was subjected to verbal abuse by a resident.
Following the recent damage to a boiler at the Barama Company’s Land of Canaan complex, there are concerns over whether protective systems were in place to prevent the machine from exploding.
Startled fowl thieves shot a Nouvelle Flanders man in the groin yesterday morning, minutes after he entered the yard where he rents an apartment.
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