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(Jamaica Gleaner) Baby Sae’breon, the newborn stolen from the Victoria Jubilee Hospital last month, could be united with his parents today.

Citing public mischief, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) today said that there is no significant threat from warnings to various educational institutions and it said that imminent arrests are expected.

(Trinidad Express) A week after their kidnapping for a ransom in Venezuela, five fishermen have returned home.

All members of the University of Guyana (UG) and all members of the public are  advised that the Turkeyen campus will be closed to the public, students and non-essential emergency University personnel for the remainder of this week to enable a thorough assessment of the situation following a bomb threat for the second day in succession.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Fifty-five-year-old Pam (last name withheld), the lone female among 29 deported migrants who were processed at Harman Barracks after being sent from the United Kingston on a charter flight to Kingston yesterday, has castigated the Jamaican Government for failing to protect the rights of emigrants.

(Jamaica Observer) The father of the newborn who was snatched from the Victoria Jubilee Hospital last month says he believes the child who was taken from a woman at the Registrar General Department (RGD) in Twickenham Park, St Catherine, on Tuesday is his.

(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has urged supporters of both major political parties to desist from making the death of MP for Portland Eastern Dr Lynvale Bloomfield a political issue.

Huge increases with immediate effect were unveiled on Monday by the government in thresholds for the restricted tendering of contracts for goods and services and construction, raising eyebrows and the ire of the opposition.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday ruled that two Mahaicony land titles were obtained by fraud and should therefore be cancelled.

St Lucia-based Guyanese artist, Ron Savory, passed away on the island on Monday last, the National Art Gallery, Castellani House has confirmed.

Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) enforcement agents yesterday intercepted a container containing over three thousand bottles of uncustomed liquor.

General Secretary of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Joseph Harmon, yesterday filed appeals challenging two of the decisions handed down by Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire, regarding the controversial December 21 no-confidence motion.

Head of the National Mining Syndicate Cheryl Williams on Tuesday renewed a call for government and the responsible authorities to fix the Puruni Road, in Region Seven, while saying that she was forced to close her mining operations for two weeks due to its poor state.

Despite pleading not guilty to a fraudulent misappropriation charge, a 45-year-old man offered to pay compensation to the virtual complainant in order to settle the matter.

The accused in the murder of Smyth Street businessman O’Riley Small had been found at the crime scene by a police investigator, the High Court trial of Maurice Prince heard yesterday.

In response to concerns by residents of Ann’s Grove that the community has been neglected by the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA), the Public Infrastructure Ministry, following a survey of the area, has assured that infrastructural works are underway.

An 18-year-old accused of relieving a woman of a motorbike, during an armed robbery in Rasville, was granted $200,000 bail yesterday by a city court.

National footballer Jobe Caesar, who, on January 16, was charged with armed robbery and damage to property, was granted bail yesterday by a city court.

Caribbean Airlines (CAL) yesterday launched its latest corporate campaign in Guyana, “The Caribbean Identity”.

A number of foreign nationals were on Tuesday detained by the police, following the raid of a nightclub in George Street, Georgetown.