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Two suspicious persons were noticed in Butcher’s Pools Hall and Bar prior to the shooting that claimed a life and injured another on Tuesday night.

After police said they received information which led them to search the home of a Linden man for guns and ammunition, a logger appeared in a city court and was remanded to prison.

Mortland Richmond, 26, one of the members of a family injured in the Independence Day crash at West Berbice died on Monday after his liver collapsed, his mother Joan Rodney said.

Parallel parking will soon be implemented on Camp Street as the Guyana Police Force Traffic Department continues its efforts to ease congestion throughout the city.

A father of two, who had been on remand since January on charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition was yesterday found guilty and sentenced to prison for one year on each charge.

The man who was fingered as having been involved in an armed robbery and having in his possession the weapon used in the murder of Saleem Azeez Abdool was yesterday freed of the unlawful possession of firearm and ammunition charges after the prosecution failed to prove its case.

Spanish oil company Repsol has asked for an additional six months before making a decision on drilling which could see the company searching for oil offshore Berbice in 2017 rather than in 2016 as originally envisioned.

Travic Rudder, the 18-month-old baby who was shot several times at Nandy Park will soon be moved out of the Intensive Care Unit and into the Paediatric Ward.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday rejected a conservative legal challenge that could have doomed President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, upholding nationwide tax subsidies crucial to his signature domestic policy achievement.

The Ministry of Public Security has advertised for consultants for the implementation of a training programme for the Guyana Police Force.

Two years after it was completed, the modern five-storey building at the corner of Camp and Lamaha streets is still looking for a long-term occupant An advertisement in Friday’s Stabroek News said that the 40,000 sq.ft.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Greece failed again to clinch a deal with its international creditors yesterday, setting up a last-ditch effort on Saturday to either avert a default next week or start preparing to protect the euro zone from financial market turmoil.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. intelligence chief James Clapper said on Thursday that China was the top suspect in the massive hacking of a U.S.

The GAWU Co-operative Credit Union Society Limited says that it has requested that the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc (GuySuCo) recommence deductions of contributions in favour of the Credit Union from workers’ earnings with effect from work-week, 5th – 11th July, 2015.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure has advertised for supervision services for the East Bank Berbice Road project.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Islamic State fighters have launched simultaneous attacks against Syrian government and Kurdish militia forces, moving back onto the offensive after losing ground in recent days to Kurdish-led forces near the capital of their “caliphate.”

THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – The Palestinian Authority made its first submission of evidence of alleged Israeli war crimes to the International Criminal Court yesterday, trying to speed up an ICC inquiry into abuses committed during last year’s Gaza conflict.

Executives of the Guyana Postal and Telecommunication Workers Union (GPTWU) met with Minister within the Ministry of Communities Keith Scott recently in relation to house lots for its 200 members.

President David Granger was on Wednesday presented with a trophy, which GINA says has an enormous amount of significance to former motor cyclist racer, and chief race starter 81- year-old Pat Holder Holder, according to GINA, said he won the trophy when he was just 14 years old and it was one of the most challenging races, in his career as a racer.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – A South African commission into the fatal police shootings of 34 people in 2012 during a wildcat strike at platinum producer Lonmin’s Marikana mine found the company did not do enough to stop the violence, President Jacob Zuma said yesterday.