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Junior Communities Minister Keith Scott, who has responsibility for housing, plans to move housing development in the country from the sale of house lots to the sale of turn-key homes in communities that are outfitted with basic services, such as schools and police stations.

A Wakapoa, Pomeroon River man is currently in police custody following reports that he had impregnated his 14-year-old daughter, who is currently some five months pregnant and hospitalized.

A crime scene detective testified yesterday when the trial of Ralph Tyndall, Anthony DePaul Hope and Kevin O’Neil continued for the murder of Colleen Forrester, whose body was found in a septic tank in Kitty in 2008.

Elderly forklift operator Balgobin Persaud was on Tuesday sentenced to five years in jail after being found guilty of causing the death of a University of Guyana (UG) worker.

Two juveniles are expected to be charged today for the assault on 10 year-old Shaquille Sears, Alex Parks, and Conroy Washington, which occurred at Independence Street, La Grange last Wednesday.

It has been almost one month since 11-year-old Ricky Samaroo has been admitted as a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Burn Care Unit, where he is being treated for second and third degree burns about his body.

Cabinet on Tuesday approved the formation of a Public Infrastructure Task Force to assess and holistically approach drainage and irrigation reform for the city.

Residents of Plaisance on the East Coast came together yesterday and braved the scorching heat as they tried to clean up a main trench and roads.

The second retrial of Charles Woolford, called ‘Tony,’ who is accused of murdering his wife in 2009, began yesterday in the High Court before Justice Brassington Reynolds.

Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday handed down a five-year prison sentence to a miner after finding him guilty on two counts drug possession for the purpose of trafficking.

A serving member of the Guyana Police Force was yesterday fined $15,000 after he pleaded guilty to stealing a quantity of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages from a colleague.

President David Granger has assured the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guard that the intuitional strengthening of that unit is among his chief priorities.

Telephone service was disrupted to about 800 customers on the lower East Coast as a result of extensive damage done to a GT&T cabinet at the junction of UG Road and the railway embankment.

Magistrate Sunil Scarce granted two women accused of using threatening language and behaviour $10, 000 bail each, when they recently appeared in the Charity Magistrate’s Court.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Dissenting and former members of Venezuela’s ruling Socialist Party yesterday requested the government investigate alleged multi-billion dollar frauds they say have flourished under the South American OPEC country’s strict currency controls.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s presidential campaign is barely under way and election officials are already under fire for barring the candidacy of former prime minister Laurent Lamothe, who hoped to succeed his former boss, President Michel Martelly.

(Reuters) – A regional Costa Rican court has recognized Central America’s first same-sex civil union, despite opposition from the Catholic Church and conservative politicians, local media reported yesterday.

ABUJA, (Reuters) – More than 8,000 people have died while being detained by Nigeria’s armed forces during the campaign against militant Islamist group Boko Haram, Amnesty International said yesterday, allegations that the military denied.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica is indebted to foreign governments and agencies to the tune of J$53.9 billion, nearly half of which is owed to China.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Facing a wave of protests calling for his resignation, Honduran President Juan Hernandez said yesterday that his 2013 presidential campaign took money from companies linked to one of the worst corruption scandals in the country’s history.