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Three persons including a woman are currently in police custody after ranks from the Major Crimes Unit yesterday afternoon conducted a search at a house in section A, block X Diamond, EBD during which one 9mm pistol and several rounds of ammunition were found.

At the Vreed-en-Hoop Court, Magistrate Crystal Lambert on Monday imposed four-year jail sentences on two accused on armed robbery charges while another was sentenced to three years  at the conclusion of a trial.

An attempt to charge three Sophia residents, who were victims of attacks on Election Day last year, was aborted yesterday after it was realised that the wrong charges were prepared.

Several parents of students enrolled in Grade Five of the Mae’s Primary School staged a protest outside the school yesterday, claiming that they paid for extra lessons that were not being delivered.

Puran Brothers Disposal Inc. and Cevons Waste Management are owed millions of dollars by the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown for garbage collection in the city.

Rico Persaud, who stole a cellphone from a shop owner that he has been acquainted with for years, was yesterday sentenced to nine months in prison after he pleaded guilty to the charge.

A man was yesterday jailed for cuffing and threatening his common-law wife in the presence of their two children.

The Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) is seeking a meeting with former members of the Rosinante Farmers’ Co-operative Society members next Friday, to discuss regularization of the state lands once held by the co-op.

While noting the positive impact the cleaning of the city’s drains has had on minimising flooding in the city recently, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) is urging residents to dispose of their plastic garbage sensibly.

Thirty Guyanese immigration officers and customs inspectors have completed a Spanish familiarisation course conducted by the Mexican embassy in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance.

A Lacytown man, who was reportedly shot at when apprehended by the owner of a store it is alleged he broke and entered, was yesterday granted $100,000 bail by a city court.

The current rainfall is hindering the Sophia Ring Road project, but work is still continuing according to Community Coordinator, Ministry of Public Infrastructure, Neilson McKenzie.

Accused of skipping out on his $5,000 taxi fare, a man yesterday told a city court that he had every intention of paying.

The challenges faced by medical personnel within South Rupununi, Region Nine were among matters raised by community leaders and residents during a Ministerial Outreach, from May 5 to 7, GINA said.

The E-Governance Unit within the Ministry of Public Telecommunications has received specialised training in several areas of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) from the Governments of India and China.

The driver involved in the Bushy Park, East Bank Essequibo accident that claimed one life, has regained consciousness after spending almost two weeks in the Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. immigration officials are planning a month-long series of raids in May and June to deport hundreds of Central American mothers and children found to have entered the country illegally, according to sources and an internal document seen by Reuters.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba and the United States will meet next week for a third round of talks on improving relations, Havana said yesterday, adding that the two former Cold War foes were not yet negotiating their multibillion-dollar claims against one another.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s interim President Michel Temer called on his country to rally behind his government of “national salvation,” hours after the Senate voted to suspend and put on trial his leftist predecessor, Dilma Rousseff, for breaking budget laws.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Amid immigration tensions between Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, Finance Minister Audley Shaw yesterday highlighted trade as another area which represents serious imbalance between Jamaica and the republic.