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An aviation security agent from a private company contracted by an airline was fired for stealing US currency from an outgoing passenger at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA).

At 0820h. today, the police say that Marc Angoy of Buzz Bee Dam, Craig, EBD, turned himself in to the police at Grove Police Station.

MONTREAL/CALGARY, (Reuters) – Canada’s Liberal leader Justin Trudeau rode a late surge to a stunning majority election victory yesterday toppling Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives with a promise of change and returning a touch of glamor, youth and charisma to Ottawa.

“…We are not going to take the salary increase. We are just not going to take it,” Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo told Stabroek News yesterday just hours after General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Clement Rohee had stated that the party was yet to made a decision on the issue.

A young farmer was yesterday afternoon discovered dead at his Good Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home with injuries to his head and the police are treating the case as a suspected murder.

Ravindra Paremdass was yesterday sentenced to 57 years in jail after being found guilty of murdering another man after a row over a bicycle.

A Guyanese woman is expected to be jailed and later deported after she pleaded guilty in a US court last Friday to being involved in a scam that targeted Price Chopper supermarkets in the United States.

A Vreed-en-Hoop carpenter was killed on Sunday night after he was run over by a car along New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara.

Head of National Industrial Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) Winston Brassington has slammed as “premature,” a recent statement, purportedly made by Minister in the Ministry of Finance Jaipaul Sharma, that it has been recommended that he be criminally charged, given that a final report on the findings of a forensic audit into the agency is yet to be submitted.

A man is now dead and another hospitalised after a late night collision on the public road at Ogle, East Coast Demerara on Sunday.

A call for local government elections to be held before the end of December 2015, is one of a list of 26 demands that the People’s Progressive Party will be lobbying for as it is of the view that the country is on the cusp of a national crisis.

Five persons, including a mother of two, were yesterday charged after the discovery of almost four kilos of cocaine and cannabis by police at a house at Perseverance, Essequibo Coast over the weekend.

President David Granger yesterday pledged to arrest the decline of President’s College (PC), which he would like to see open a new chapter in science and technology education in the country.

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan maintained yesterday that the gazetted date of the Diwali holiday this year remains November 10 and there will be no consideration for changes.

The Skeldon Sugar Factory last week recorded its highest daily production since the factor was commissioned in 2009, according to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo).

The police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for Marc Angoy, suspect in the murder of toddler Arian Gill, who was shot dead at her Eastville, Annandale, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home on Sunday.

Ram & McRae has been contracted by the Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest) board to hire the agency’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the Ministry of Business has indicated that the agency is fully responsible for the advertising the position.

A little over a year after being charged with murdering elderly remigrant Joyce Lewis, Junior Williams was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court.

Another suspect in the robbery attempt on a police rank and his family, who were believed to have been trailed from the airport, was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with illegal firearm possession and discharging a loaded firearm at an off-duty rank.

The People’s Progressive Party is yet to comprehensively respond to the glaring report by the State Assets Recovery Unit (SARU) that could lead to criminal action against its members for their involvement in the acquisition of land at the controversial Pradoville 2 Housing Scheme.