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Government is examining the possibility of setting up a court to deal with mining matters, according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon.

The University of Guyana (UG) has appointed three members of its academic staff to the status of full professors.

The Ministry of Public Service’s Chief Personnel Officer Margaret Cummings was yesterday detained at police headquarters, Eve Leary and questioned about missing funds amounting to just over $127 million, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum has confirmed.

Following the savage murder of 77-year-old Danrasie ‘Carmen’ Ganesh, who was clubbed to death on Saturday at Montrose, police have released a photograph of the suspect in hopes of finding him.

Amanda Lam, one of the victims of the accident that left an elderly woman dead last Friday, last been discharged from the hospital although she is alleging that she was neglected during her admission.

Two weeks after being charged with carrying out a $17 million burglary, Nabadamingi Gobin found himself back in court accused of murder.

The Maritime Administra-tion Department (MARAD) has reported that all of the crew of the vessel Capt Saif, which capsized in the Waini River on Saturday evening, have been rescued and are safe.

New Chairman of Region Four Genevieve Allen, the only woman head of the 10 recently constituted Regional Democratic Councils, intends to make her region the “frontline” region.

Over three months after three men were charged with the murder of mines commission engineer Trevor Abrams and remanded to prison the preliminary inquiry into the matter has not yet commenced; it is scheduled to start on the next court date which was given as August 12.

A 37-year-old man was remanded to prison after facing a city magistrate on charges of being in possession of an illegal firearm and using threatening language Gregory Williams, 37, of Annai Village Central, North Rupununi was charged on Friday with being in possession of one 77 pistol without a licence and using threatening language towards Mark George on July 29.

Faizal Bacchus and Lennox Roberts who are charged with the murder of La Jalousie businessman Ganesh Ramlall appeared before Magistrate Rochelle Liverpool at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday and had the start of the preliminary inquiry adjourned to September 25.

A youth is now nursing a wound to his neck after being chopped by a teenager on Friday.

The relatives of Mary Chappell who went missing in June have still not been able to locate the 16-year-old.

The PPP has called into question the government’s plans for the restructuring of the One Laptop per Family (OLPF) programme while rejecting Minister of State Joseph Harmon’s reference to the programme as a “massive fraud.”

Thirty-two boat operators on the Parika/Bartica service have joined 188 others on different routes who have benefited from basic first aid training this year.

EU Ambassador Robert Kopecky and Acting British High Commissioner Ron Rimmer have debriefed Minister of Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge on the outcome of the E3/EU+3 negotiations with Iran and the resulting Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Clement Rohee yesterday called on the government to justify what he called an “unconscionable decision” to increase ministerial salaries in some cases by 100%.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Several US politicians sharply criticized the Obama administration yesterday over an annual global report on human trafficking in response to a Reuters article chronicling how senior US diplomats had watered down rankings of more than a dozen strategically important countries.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Jamaica Observer) – A 30-year-old married man who was caught by the police kissing a 13-year-old schoolgirl in an abandoned building in downtown Kingston, and making plans to have sex was yesterday slapped with a J$150,000 fine when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court.

(Reuters) – UN sanctions experts have accused British company Soma Oil and Gas of making large payments to Somalia’s oil ministry that created a “serious conflict of interest,” some of which appeared to have been used to pay off senior officials.