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Investigators are currently on the hunt for two close associates of Steve Mohamed, whose body was found in Le Repentir cemetery last Thursday.

Courts with temporary magistrates  operating from 4 pm are set to tackle the case backlog that has resulted in prison overcrowding and the initiative may cost around $25m.

While the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) missed several of its key targets in 2014, it was able to record other accomplishments in relation to the number of blackouts and the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) will be reviewing the company’s performance and deciding whether its explanations are satisfactory.

The High Court trial of Shameer Mohamed came to an end yesterday afternoon after a jury found him not guilty of manslaughter in relation to the burning death of  Munrajie Amza called Sandra.

Fogging for mosquitoes in Region Six has been intensified after residents of New Amsterdam and surrounding communities were affected by swarms of the insect during daylight hours.

At about 1955h on Tuesday, ranks of a mobile police patrol at East Canefield, Canje, Berbice, approached Malcolm Henry, 32 years, of Rosignol, WBB, who is known to the police.

Vijay Kumar Ramu was elected Mayor of Rose Hall Town yesterday when the new council held its first meeting at the Town Hall.

A Region One woman was yesterday remanded to prison after she was charged with attempting to murder her common-law husband.

Guyana and the European Union (EU) held a fourth negotiating session on the EU’s Forest Law and Enforcement Governance and Trade Action Plan Voluntary Partnership Agreement (FLEGT-VPA) earlier this month.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition-controlled Congress late on Tuesday approved an amnesty law to free jailed opposition activists and end legal proceedings against others, a measure President Nicolas Maduro promised to veto.

(Reuters) – No need for stocking masks and sawn-off shotguns. The unprecedented heist of $81 million from the U.S.

A clothes vendor was remanded to prison after he was accused of using a cutlass to rob Colrin Mercurius of two gold chains.

A Kitty clothes vendor was yesterday remanded to prison after he appeared before a city court on a drug trafficking charge.

PORT TALBOT, Wales/LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain battled to save its steel industry yesterday after India’s Tata Steel put its British operations up for sale, leaving thousands of jobs at risk as a result of cheap Chinese imports.

BOGOTA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The scale of sex trafficking around illegal gold mines in parts of Latin America is “staggering,” and thousands of people working there are prey to labour exploitation by organised crime groups, a think-tank said yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) Brazilian beer giant AmBev has started reshaping Banks Holdings Limited (BHL) in its own image, cutting three members of its top executive management team in the process.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s finance minister, ending a month-long standoff, has answered police questions about a spy unit formed by its tax collection agency, the latest chapter in what is seen as a proxy war between President Jacob Zuma and his detractors.

(Jamaica Observer)  The Government is to operate the Long Pond Sugar Factory in Trelawny for three months to save cane produced in the parish for this year’s crop.

NAYPYITAW/YANGON,  (Reuters) – Members of Aung San Suu Kyi’s victorious National League for Democracy (NLD) were in tears day as Myanmar swore in its first president with no military ties in more than half a century.

The Guyana Prisons Service will soon have a Special Response Team to deal with disturbances like the one that led to 17 deaths at the Camp Street penitentiary on March 3rd.