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After some 70 expressions of interest, the Special Purpose Unit (SPU) received 10 submissions by yesterday’s deadline for bids for the Skeldon, Rose Hall and East Demerara estates.

A bandit was shot dead by the police while his accomplice managed to escape yesterday afternoon after they hijacked a car in Haslington and were cornered in Mahaicony.

Leader of the Opposition and former president Bharrat Jagdeo is hoping that everything goes well with President David Granger’s medical examinations in Cuba and that he returns safely to Guyana and in good health.

The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs has disclosed that SARU and SOCU launched an investigation over a year ago into the spending from the Amerindian Purposes Fund.

Abdul Imran Khan, the man who allegedly assaulted Romario Baljeet outside of the popular Palm Court nightclub, was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with attempted murder.

The police in Berbice have launched an investigation into an attempt to burn the house of one of the Alliance For Change (AFC) candidates for the Whim/ Bloomfield Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) at the upcoming local government elections and a rival PPP/C candidate has been arrested after reports that he threatened her.

Daniel Watson, the Herstelling man who police say strangled and drowned his estranged common-law wife in a drain, has been committed to face a trial at the High Court for the crime.

A total of 80 polling stations located at strategic army, police, fire and prison services locations will be opened from 6 am to 6 pm to today to facilitate early voting by some 7,918 members of the disciplined services for this year’s Local Government Elections.

A man is now dead after being struck along the Felicity Railway Embankment Road, on the East Coast of Demerara, where police say he ran into the path of an oncoming vehicle.

Just over two weeks after he and two others escaped from the Lusignan Prison, Dextroy Pollard was yesterday recaptured and turned over to police by a public-spirited citizen on the West Bank of Demerara.

A security guard was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge that he attempted to murder three men.

Approximately sixty percent of a sample population of 700 Georgetown customers have illegally reattached their water service after being disconnected for overdue balances.

A minibus driver, who was charged with causing the death of a passenger in an accident at the junction of Sheriff Street and the Rupert Craig Highway, was yesterday freed after a city magistrate found that the police failed to prove their case against him.

A city magistrate yesterday committed Kelvin Persaud and Selwyn Dawson, who are accused of murdering clothing vendor Purcell Moore Jr, to stand trial at the High Court for the crime.

Shelton John Bowen, the man charged with fatally stabbing a labourer at Bagotstown after a row over water, was yesterday committed to stand trial.

An autopsy performed on Baramita’s Ruthina Thomas, whose lifeless body was discovered along a roadway a week ago,  has given the cause of death as asphyxiation due to manual strangulation, compounded by blunt trauma to head.

Two hundred and fifty-one students graduated from the Georgetown School of Nursing yesterday, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

Over the last two and a half years the Mon Repos/La Reconnaissance Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) has worked to improve its capacity to provide essential services by purchasing several pieces of necessary equipment and this effort seems to have paid off with several residents saying they are satisfied with the work they have seen done.

Revenues from oil and gas can catalyse the growth of a number of industries, including tourism, according to Minister of Business, Dominic Gaskin. 

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump increased economic pressure on Venezuela’s leftist President Nicolas Maduro yesterday with new sanctions aimed at disrupting the South American country’s gold exports.