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Police who turned up to investigate an accident at Happy Acres, East Coast Demerara on Thursday afternoon ended up making a large drug find in one of the vehicles.

A New Amsterdam man was taken into custody yesterday after police found six kilogrammes of marijuana at his home.

A forgery charge which had been laid against recently appointed Town Clerk Royston King more than a year ago was on Thursday withdrawn based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

Attorney-General Basil Williams was yesterday granted leave to respond to submissions made by lawyers for former president Bharrat Jagdeo who are seeking to prevent Magistrate Charlyn Artiga from hearing a private criminal charge against him.

One of the three accused implicated in the murder of Meadow Brook accountant Jason Cort has been accused of attempting to escape from the police.

A convict yesterday thanked a city magistrate after she found him guilty of trafficking in narcotics and subsequently handed him a three-year prison sentence.

The trial of two police constables, accused of assaulting Colwyn Harding, was adjourned last week due to the absence of Prosecutor Nigel Hughes.

A Linden man arraigned on a break and enter charge was yesterday refused bail when he appeared in a Georgetown court.

The Food Policy Division of the Ministry of Public Health in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) will be seeking to raise awareness about anaemia, which has been found to affect almost 25% of Guyana’s children under five years and over 40% of its pregnant women.

Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has launched a countrywide customer survey to assess the quality of customer care extended to its customers at its Customer Services Offices and Call Centres.

(Reuters) – Google Inc’s shares closed up 16.3 percent at $699.62 yesterday, adding about $65 billion to its market value, as strong growth in YouTube viewership eased investor concerns about Facebook Inc’s push into video.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn./WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The suspect in the fatal shootings of four U.S.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress broke with the government of President Dilma Rousseff yesterday over corruption accusations, deepening a political crisis in Latin America’s largest economy.

OSLO, (Reuters) – Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik won a place yesterday to study at Oslo University from solitary confinement in prison, despite outrage at his massacre of 77 people four years ago.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez in Washington on Monday, U.S.

CARACAS (Reuters) – – Former Venezuelan state Governor Pablo Perez said yesterday he had been barred from holding public office for 10 years, the third ban on an opposition politician in the last week.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The Mexican Attorney General’s office said yesterday it had arrested seven officials over suspected involvement in the jail break of drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

(Trinidad Guardian) Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine this week signed a TT$15.6 million contract with Norwegian company Det Norse Veritas (DNV) to undertake a comprehensive audit of all of the assets in the energy sector in T&T.

ADDIS ABABA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A major United Nations summit to finance ambitious global development goals, from giving free education to all to dealing with climate change, fell short of developing countries’ expectations with few aid pledges.

(CPL) The Guyana Amazon Warriors moved into 2nd place in the 2015 Hero Caribbean Premier League table with a thrilling victory over the St Lucia Zouks on their home ground at Providence.