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The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the charge against Junior Williams, who is accused of murdering elderly re-migrant Joyce Lewis, is expected to conclude soon as the prosecution is preparing to call its final witnesses.

A West Ruimveldt resident is now a remanded prisoner after being charged with attempting to sell a boat that he knew was stolen.

The trial of Deon Braithwaite, who is accused of attempting to murder another man using a pitchfork, began yesterday before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow at the High Court in Georgetown.

Minister of Public Health Dr. George Norton on Thursday said an investigation has been launched into allegations that health workers attached to the Fort Wellington Hospital were neglecting their duties when victims injured in a robbery turned up for help last month.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday once again released contact numbers for key personnel in the

A motorcyclist is now hospitalised with a broken leg after he was struck by a car while riding in the city on Thursday.

Two of the best graduating students of the Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN) Secondary School have earned scholarships to pursue tertiary education studies in the United States of America.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) last week convened a meeting of more than a dozen civic organisations that agreed to advocate on immediate environmental priorities.

BUDAPEST, (Reuters) – Long lines of buses packed with migrants left Budapest bound for Austria yesterday as Hungary gave in to determined crowds, including many Syrian refugees, who had set out on foot for western Europe in defiance of a right-wing government vowing to stem their tide.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – In a series of meetings that began early this year, the U.S.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Brazil and Argentina’s foreign ministers visited Bogota yesterday in an effort to kick-start dialogue between Colombia and Venezuela over a border crisis that has seen more than 16,000 Colombians leave their adopted home.

A Brazilian national, accused of stealing money from a local bank, has been released on bail after his lawyer told a city court that he was charged due to a mix-up.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Fighting graft accusations, Guatemala’s former President Otto Perez said yesterday he could have made “10 or 15 times” the money he is accused of stealing if he had taken bribes offered by powerful Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Enough documentary evidence exists to prove former Guatemalan President Otto Perez’s involvement in a corruption scandal, the head of a powerful U.N.-backed

MOREHEAD, Ky., (Reuters) – Deputies of a county clerk in rural Kentucky issued marriage licences to four gay couples yesterday after she defied a federal judge’s orders for months because as a Christian she opposes same-sex unions.

Visits to the lighthouse located at Kingston, in Georgetown, have been temporarily suspended until corrective measures are undertaken, according to the Public Infrastructure Ministry.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – A top aide to Brazil’s former president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was charged with corruption, money laundering and racketeering on Friday, making him one of the most senior members of Brazil’s ruling Workers’ Party to be formally accused in a massive kickback scandal.

The Texila American University (TAU) and the Davis Memorial Hospital (DMH) recently signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a working relationship for the provision of clinical education and training for nursing students.

(Trinidad Guardian)”What did we miss?” This is the question that now haunts the family members of Amanda Morris after an autopsy revealed Morris and her two sons were murdered and her husband, Lyndon Beharry, committed suicide.

A team from the Special Forces of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), today descended into the Kaieteur Gorge to continue the search to locate a female tourist who was reported missing at Kaieteur National Park on Tuesday August 1, 2015.