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The Wapishana people of South Rupununi, Region Nine recently signed terms of reference (TOR) with the Government of Guyana, to address serious issues affecting them, GINA said yesterday.

Georgetown is prepared for the May/June rainy season, according to acting City Engineer Ron Eastman, who says necessary precautions have been taken to prevent flooding, including the cleanup that has been ongoing for almost a year.

A total of five persons are now in police custody as investigators continue to probe the eight-year-old death of Ruby businessman Habiboodean.

A Norwegian team was expected in Guyana yesterday as Oslo presses Georgetown to work on several aspects of the forests partnership between the two countries including a move to renewable energy.

While charging that censorship is very much alive in Guyana, PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee on Monday expressed concern over the party’s statements not being carried by the daily newspapers.

Pork knocker Michael Jackson was on Monday charged once again with stealing from a house.

A second accused in the robbery of Land Court Judge Nicola Pierre on Monday claimed that he too was at home on the night of the attack.

Forty-five-year-old Andrew Hannibal of Benneth Dam, Rosignol  was last week committed to stand trial at the Berbice Assizes following the completion of paper committal proceedings in respect of a charge of sexual activity with a child under 15 years.

A policeman who arrested two suspects following an October 2015 armed robbery, was on Friday unable to identify one of the accused when he testified before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

With the government signaling plans to transfer prisoners from the overcrowded Georgetown Prison to the Mazaruni Prison, PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee has warned against sending high-profile prisoners to the remote location.

A Rose Hall businessman was robbed yesterday during business hours. Lomenzo Johnny, of Lot 11 East Side Line, Rose Hall Town, was pounced on, by two armed bandits yesterday at around 12:00 hrs. 

Suzette Cornette, a former employee of the Guyana Police Force’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), who is accused of obtaining over $500,000 in cash and items to derail the prosecution of a larceny suspect, made her second court appearance yesterday and pleaded not guilty to the charges.

A man was on Friday sentenced to four months in jail after he pleaded guilty to breaking and entering a city church.

A gold miner was yesterday charged with stealing raw gold from the mining company where he works.

30% of works on the Kitty Market have been completed, according to acting City Engineer Ron Eastman.

BENGHAZI, Libya,  (Reuters) – A government based in eastern Libya has shipped its first cargo of crude in defiance of authorities in the capital Tripoli, a bold move that could deepen the divisions that have brought chaos since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi.

A man was yesterday charged with attempting to rob a city Chinese store of over $500,000 in goods and cash and a court heard that he was shot in the process by the owner.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The number of confirmed and suspected cases of microcephaly in Brazil associated with the Zika virus remained stable at 4,908 in the week through April 23, just one case more than a week earlier, the Health Ministry said yesterday.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s election board gave opposition leaders yesterday a document letting them begin the process of seeking a referendum to remove President Nicolas Maduro, who is under fire over a deepening economic crisis.

AMAJARI, Brazil, (Reuters) – After trekking nearly two hours through dense jungle, Brazilian environmental special forces burst into a clearing where the trees had been sawn and a muddy crater dug: an illegal gold mine on indigenous land in the heart of the Amazon.