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A young resident of the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) started a one man clean-up campaign along the streets of the capital after being motivated by the actions of many but particularly that of “Captain Clean” and his team.

A butcher was yesterday remanded to prison after he was accused of having a quantity of cocaine in his possession.

The Annandale woman who allegedly set herself ablaze on June 3 has since succumbed to her injuries.

The State yesterday closed its case in the trial of Ralph Tyndall, Anthony De Paul Hope and Kevin O’Neil, who are jointly charged with murdering Colleen Forrester and stuffing her body in a septic tank in 2007.

The PPP/C is adamant that it will be filing an election petition to contest the results of the just concluded general and regional elections and according to executive member Anil Nandlall the party has time left in which it can take this step.

The Rupununi Music and Arts Festival returns to Rock View Lodge, Annai in the North Rupununi for its second showing on September 18 – 20 offering locals and tourists Amerindian culture, samba and capoeira from Brazil, drums and tassa, rhythms from Africa and India, chants from the Makushi and Caribbean island vibes among other things.

PPP executive member Anil Nandlall on Thursday criticized government’s decision to have chartered accountants Anand Goolsarran and Christopher Ram conduct the forensic audit of several state agencies saying that they are inappropriate for the task.

Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan told a group of engineers and other technical specialists that his ministry hopes to harness their skills and expertise and group them into a single unit whose objective is to build cohesive sustainable communities nationwide.

(Trinidad Guardian) In an attempt to rehabilitate minor, non-violent substance abusers across the region, Chief Justice Ivor Archie is looking to Caricom to support a Caribbean Drug Treatment Court Association.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian police on Friday arrested Marcelo Odebrecht, the head of Latin America’s largest engineering and construction company Odebrecht SA, and accused his family-run conglomerate of spearheading a $2.1 billion bribery scheme at state-run oil firm Petrobras.

(Jamaica Observer) Students attending Denham Town Primary School in west Kingston are being put through ‘gunshot drills’ that train them how to react during gun battles between thugs — a common occurrence in the volatile community.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba plans to beam Wi-Fi signals at 35 public spaces in the first such offering for the population at large, whose Web access has been mostly limited to desktop rentals in state-owned Internet parlors.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) – Locally produced cassava starch is now a key ingredient in the brew of Red Stripe Beer, as the company moves to reduce imported raw material for its production.

LONDON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A pioneering project in one of India’s sunniest states has led to one farmer harvesting what could become the country’s most climate-smart cash crop yet – sunshine.

Thursday’s second sitting of the 11th Parliament will see two pieces of legislation which were at the centre of a titanic standoff between the government and the opposition in 2012: the anti-money laundering bill and another to slash the benefits of former presidents.

(GINA) Today mainly cloudy skies will continue throughout coastal and near inland areas, with occasional light to moderate, and at times, heavy showers, between Regions 2 to Northern 6, during the morning, becoming fair, but cloudy in the afternoon.

At about 1245h. today, the police say that Reginald Manbodh, 67 years, had just returned home in his motor vehicle at North Ruimveldt, Georgetown, when he was attacked and held at gunpoint by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, and who had driven up on a motor cycle.

Two employees of the Public Service Ministry were on Tuesday sent on leave after it was unearthed that they reportedly forged documents as part of a scheme to transfer state-owned vehicles to certain individuals, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said last evening, adding that the police have since been notified.

A mining pit cave in at Tiger River, Mahdia, Region 8 has claimed the life of one man and injured another, just one month after a similar tragedy at Pepper Creek resulted in the deaths of 10 men.

A fishing boat captain of Rosignol, West Bank Berbice is feared dead after he was tossed overboard in the Corentyne River by masked pirates when they attacked his boat.