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President David Granger last evening announced a rescue plan for Guyana’s fading Amerindian languages as Indigenous Heritage Month was launched.

A female tourist went missing following a trip to the Kaieteur National Park (KNP) yesterday and a search party found no sign of her.

An investigation has been launched into the death of a patient at the National Psychiatric Hospital at New Amsterdam, according to Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton, who yesterday once again decried the scandalous condition of the facility and announced a plan to rectify the situation.

A father and son made history when they landed a LIAT flight together at the Ogle International Airport yesterday.

Timothy Sampson, one of the men suspected of robbing a Corentyne family after sawing a hole into their house, appeared before a city court yesterday charged with armed robbery and shooting at police officers.

Millions went up in flames when a fire gutted the worksite of a furniture store at Bee Hive, East Coast Demerara early yesterday morning.

Given the steep decline in oil prices over the past months, Canadian oil explorer CGX Energy Inc has shelved plans for drilling on its Corentyne block for now and says its ability to continue as a going concern is dependent on additional financing being found.

After turning himself in, Shamir Barker, the driver accused in the hit and run accident that caused the death of Latoya Thompson last month, was yesterday charged and remanded to jail by a city magistrate.

The PPP last week complained to a US congressional delegation about what it said were arbitrary dismissals by the new government and also asserted the need for electoral reforms.

The government is working on a policy to ensure responsible reporting by the state media, Minister of the Presidency Joseph Harmon said last Friday.

The body of a sixty-seven-year old electrician was discovered in a desolate area of the abandoned train line between Silvertown and Half Mile, Wismar, around 15.30 hrs yesterday.

The Audit Office of Guyana yesterday received tenders for acquisition of Information Technology  Equipment.

Just hours after being released from police custody, Kellon Hinds was gunned down on Monday evening in what is believed to be a reprisal killing.

Finance Minister Winston Jordan in a statement on Monday said that there had been a move to impose a further 55% increase in the tolls for the Berbice Bridge but that this would not be countenanced by the government.

The Information Technology (IT) Department of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has been upgraded with the donation of 10 computer systems, valued   at US$8000.

A carpenter employed by the Ministry of Education was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail after denying a charge of cannabis possession.

At about 2300h on Monday night, the police say that they responded to a report of the discharging of a firearm at Montrose, ECD, and arrested a man in whose possession was found an unlicensed 9mm.

The alleged accomplice of shop owner Linden Hodge, who was on Monday charged with stealing a car, was yesterday charged.

The skeletal remains of a man was found in his collapsed Sophia home after he went missing four years ago.

A carpenter was stabbed in his hand and robbed of $200,000 in cash last night.