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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.

A Surinamese national, who travelled to Guyana illegally to take his family back home, was yesterday fined for illegal entry at a city court.

Mayor Hamilton Green yesterday announced that there would be zero tolerance for violations of the city’s by-laws “It will not be business as usual for persons who feel that they can mistreat Georgetown like they did for the past 23 years because we no longer have a ministry and a government that will tolerate the suffocation and the denigration of the capital,” Green told a news conference yesterday, shortly after he concluded a tour around the city.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has started an investigation to determine the circumstances surrounding the death of worker Mohamed Oosman, following an accident at the Rose Hall Estate, East Berbice on Monday night.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala’s Congress yesterday voted unanimously to strip President Otto Perez of immunity, paving the way for prosecutors to charge him in a graft scandal that could lead to his ouster.

BUDAPEST/BERLIN, (Reuters) – Hundreds of angry migrants demonstrated outside Budapest’s Eastern Railway Terminus yesterday demanding they be allowed to travel on to Germany, as the biggest ever influx of migrants into the European Union left its asylum policies in tatters.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis will give all priests discretion during the Roman Catholic Church’s Holy Year to formally forgive women who have had abortions — the Argentine pontiff’s latest move towards a more open and inclusive church.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Federal Police yesterday charged Jose Dirceu, former chief of staff to former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, with four crimes related to his alleged involvement in bribery and bid-rigging at Petrobras and other state-run companies.

Firefighters are being lauded for their quick action which last evening contained a fire at the GuyOil Bulk Fuel Station located at Providence.

A female tourist is missing following a visit to Kaieteur Falls today, a statement from the Ministry of the Presidency said tonight.

At about 2110h. last night, the police say that Kellon Hinds, 22 years, of East Ruimveldt Squatting Area, Georgetown, was attacked in a yard at East Ruimveldt by three men armed with hand guns.

The Firearm Amnesty commenced at 0900h. today as scheduled, the police said.

Realtor Harold Anthony Reid, who is more popularly known as Tony Reid, died from a heart attack last Thursday at the Georgetown Public Hospi-tal Corporation (GPHC).

President David Granger met yesterday with Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo and the two discussed the ongoing border controversy with Venezuela and a series of committees to be set up.

Thirty-year-old Mohamed Oosman, a long-time employee of the Guyana Sugar Corporation, died last evening after a bell loader he was operating fell into a canal at Rose Hall Estate, East Berbice.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, Michael Khan has been asked to proceed on leave in order to facilitate investigations into the procurement and storage of medication and medical supplies at the corporation.

Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield has asked the High Court to strike out the elections petition filed by the opposition PPP/C’s Ganga Persaud, saying it is “materially defective” because it fails to establish any grounds to vitiate the polls.