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Brazilian and Barbadian companies are among five bidders for rehabilitation work on the Moco-Moco Hydropower plant in Region Nine.

Four candidates, all of whom are Guyanese, have been shortlisted to be interviewed for the vacant post of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana (UG).

The University of Guyana Students’ Society (UGSS) yesterday staged a protest at the Turkeyen Campus to highlight poor conditions that they say continue to be ignored.

The Caribbean American Domestic Violence Awareness (CADVA) group is working towards creating a missing persons database.

Deputy Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels was once again accused by an inmate as being the authority who passed an instruction for the door to the burning Capital Division at the camp Street prison to be shut on March 3, when 17 prisoners died.

The Supreme Court has advertised for temporary magistrates in the wake of initiatives aimed at easing the backlog of cases and overcrowding in the prisons.

There have been no reports of piracy in the first quarter of the year and the police have credited this to the resuscitation of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Piracy and the Inter-Agency Maritime Surveillance Programme.

As police continue to investigate two murders they believe are linked and were committed as acts of reprisal during last week, they were yesterday granted an additional 72 hours to detain two of the four suspects who were arrested, while the other two have been released.

Red Thread Coordinator Karen de Souza is not surprised that alleged child molester Winston Harding enjoys the support of the residents of his constituency.

Keith Ferrier, one of the accused in the 2009 arson of the Ministry of Health building at Brickdam, was denied bail after making a new application yesterday.

A date was yesterday set for the start of the trial of Police Constable Tito Benons who was allegedly found recently with an unlicensed pistol and 15 rounds of ammunition.

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) has extended the date for investment proposals from the public.

An inquiry is to be conducted into the education system and members of the public are being invited to submit memoranda.

An East Ruimveldt man, who police say had an unlicensed gun with matching rounds that he used to rob a woman, was yesterday sentenced for the offences.

A young Agricola mother was given a second chance after a man who accused her of robbing him decided to drop the complaint.

Sterling Products Limited (SPL) registered a profit of $173 million for 2015, down 16.6% on the previous year.

A Nigerian national was yesterday given 24 hours to leave the country after he was reprimanded for illegally entering from Brazil.

    A plumber was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with robbing a driver who was held up by traffic.

A report regarding the death of 10-year-old Ishmael Raghubir carried in yesterday’s edition of the Stabroek News under the title ‘La Grange boy killed by reversing car’ had erroneously stated that the accident occurred in front of the boy’s Independence Street home.

LONDON/PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Governments across the world began investigating possible financial wrongdoing by the rich and powerful yesterday after a leak of four decades of documents from a Panamanian law firm that specialised in setting up offshore companies.