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The Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) will be hiking taxes by 10% for residential and commercial properties from the start of next year.

Veteran engineer and longtime technical advisor to the Ministry of Public Infrastructure Walter Willis died yesterday at the St Joseph Mercy Hospital, which has since launched an investigation to verify if all clinical guidelines were followed in his treatment.

The Crane, West Coast Demerara man who allegedly chopped his wife and son to death was arraigned for the crime at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Four days after the horrific deaths of her two young sons 37-year-old Sonia George is still in a state of shock and while she agrees that her living conditions were not ideal to raise her five children, she questions how her young sons could die under the care of an agency that was supposed to protect them.

Almost three months after boat collision victim Mohamed Abdool Shameer was found buried in a shallow grave more than 60 miles from the scene of the crash, two Pomeroon men are to be charged with murder and a policeman is also to be charged over collecting a bribe to stall the investigations.

Two masked robbers last evening shot a Pouderoyen businessman and then fled with a quantity of cash, jewellery and electronics that they grabbed from his home.

A mechanic died on Sunday evening, four days after he was allegedly beaten by his neighbours with a piece of wood at Belle West, West Bank Demerara (WBD) and the police have arrested three people and are seeking a fourth.

In the wake of the massive hydrocarbon find by ExxonMobil offshore, Guyana is considering the feasibility of developing a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility to refine gas.

Guyana’s debt distress risk remains moderate but is rising according to the Country Report released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this month.

The officials of the Lethem Municipality are not to be blamed for the current economic instability facing businesses in the township, Mayor Carlton Beckles says.

After 21 years on the run, a murder suspect was arrested by police on Saturday.

Dhanraj Raghubir, the computer technician accused of forging a United States Embassy appointment letter, was yesterday cleared of the charges for want of prosecution.

Despite his pleas for bail, a young father is now a remanded prisoner on gun and ammunition charges.

The police’s fatal shooting of Nigel Joseph during a shootout last Thursday at the Alpha International Hotel, at Ogle, East Coast Demerara, is being investigated by the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum.

With the promise of a visit by a technical team attached to the Ministry of Communities, aimed at addressing the deplorable state of the Matarkai Road, residents of Port Kaituma in the North West District are hoping that a viable solution can be reached to rectify their situation.

A Bartica youth was yesterday denied bail after police say he was found with more than 100 grammes of cannabis at his home.

LONDON (Reuters) – Interior minister Theresa May will become Britain’s prime minister tomorrow, with the task of steering its withdrawal from the European Union, after rival Andrea Leadsom abruptly terminated her disastrous leadership campaign.

A Quamina Street woman was arrested just before midday yesterday and is currently in police custody after she was caught attempting to post rice which consisted of a quantity of cannabis.

ABOARD THE USS NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps yesterday dispatched five military vessels to monitor a US warship hosting one of America’s top generals on a day trip through the Strait of Hormuz, coming as close as 500 yards (metres).

Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) James Singh, while elated about yesterday’s public acknowledgement of the part the unit and investigators from the Guyana Police Force played in a major drug conviction in the United Kingdom (UK), said it is only one example of the ongoing collaboration between the Governments of Guyana and the UK.