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The troubled Specialty Hospital project is now on hold as government’s handpicked contractor, Fedders Lloyd has been barred by India from participating in such contracts until 2020.

– two freed as evidence insufficient   Three of the five accused in the robbery of land court judge Nicola Pierre and her husband Mohamed Chan were yesterday found guilty and will be sentenced next week.

Government yesterday announced that Cabinet this week granted no- objections for large contracts including one for $265m to Brenco Shipping for spare parts to the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD).

A man of Guyanese origin is being hailed in the US as a hero for saving the lives of a number of people at the Florida nightclub where 49 people were shot dead by a crazed man who himself was killed last Sunday morning.

Caribbean Airlines yesterday said that the need to comply with US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) guidelines is the reason for passengers having to dispose of their duty-free items bought in Guyana, once Trinidad is not their final destination.

A labourer succumbed to his injuries yesterday, less than one week after he was allegedly chopped about his body by a teenager who has been arrested.

Armed bandits on Thursday evening stormed the R Prasad Service Station and escaped with a quantity of cash and gas cylinders after they tied up the pump attendant and security guard who were on duty at the time.

A handyman died on Thursday evening, shortly after he was struck down on the Triumph Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara (ECD) by a speeding driver who reportedly drove himself to the police station.

The three Barama workers accused of the 2007 rape and sodomy of a girl at the company’s Land of Canaan plywood plant will be called upon to lead a defence in the coming week as the High Court Trial into the matter continues On trial are Paul Abrams, Claude Craig and Holston Melville, who are accused of taking turns raping and sodomizing the young woman who was 17 years old at the time.

Andrey Gouveia, 26,  is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to the murder of Eric Godfrey Angel which occurred on May 09, 2016, at Black Water Landing, Cuyuni River.

Damion Allicock, who according to the police is one of the alleged members of the Hot Skull Gang, was yesterday fined $80,000 after facing four charges, including escaping police custody.

The new Vice Chancellor (VC) of the University of Guyana has identified the reaccreditation of the university’s medical school as one of his main priorities.

Government yesterday announced the establishment of the Bid Protest Committee which would look at the cases of tenderers who express dissatisfaction with specified contract awards in the public procurement system.

After weeks of staking out suspected smugglers at the Number 63 Beach, the East Berbice Corentyne Agriculture Association (EBCAA), which is a group of fishermen, who hail from the Corentyne area, with the help of Customs officers and ranks attached to the Number 51 Police Station, on Thursday nabbed two suspected smugglers.

The APNU+AFC government will honour the outstanding US$40,000 or approximately $8.4M payment, to People’s Progressive Party/Civic  consultant, Dr Cobina “Coby” Frimpong, but says that the work he has produced is useless for the area designed.

A pregnant woman and a caretaker were yesterday brought before a city court to answer a charge of having 6 pounds of cannabis in their possession.

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo said on Thursday that government is ready to transform the sugar industry but said consensus is needed on the new direction.

Another statutory meeting was disrupted on Thursday as APNU+AFC councillors of Region Five continue to call for an apology from Regional Chairman Vickchand Ramphal over the alleged snub of President David Granger.

Residents of Moraikobai, affected by recent flooding, will receive aid in the form of food hampers through the Ministry of the Presidency from the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), a release from GINA said yesterday.

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon yesterday met with representatives from several ministries and    government agencies to broach a multi-stakeholder approach towards a developmental plan for the Mocha Arcadia Com-munity on the East Bank of Demerara.