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Guyana is experiencing a change in weather conditions, which could prevail over the next 15 days, according to the Timehri Met Office and Internet weather databases.

Persons visiting the community to be a part of the Easter Regatta activities on Bartica were forced to pay more than the regular fare to travel to the community via speed boat despite earlier assurance by chairman of the Regatta Committee that they would work to prevent that from happening.

It was three days of unadulterated excitement and entertainment at the 2010 Bartica Regatta and not even the rains stopped persons from enjoying themselves.

Twenty-year-old Ronald Evans of Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara, was yesterday sentenced to 32 months imprisonment when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with indecently assaulting a three-year-old girl and an eight-year-old girl.

E-Networks announces that it is widening its information technology services with the recent acquisition of Broadband Inc and Freedom Online Wireless Internet Service Providers.

Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday refused bail for a 40-year-old welder when he appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court accused of slashing his mother to her face with a broken glass bottle.

Two-year-old heart patient, Udesh Ragubar of Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice may get an opportunity to have his surgery done at The Hospital for Sick Children in Canada much to the relief of his worried parents.

– as antique, clothing stores gutted Quick action by the fire service averted tragedy in the wee hours of yesterday when a fire of unknown origin destroyed an antique store and a clothing store at the corner of Robb and King streets.

A Surinamese man and a Venezuelan woman were ordered to pay fines of $30,000 each and deported to their homelands when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court for illegally entering Guyana.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Landslides and floods set off by the heaviest rains in decades killed at least 95 people in Rio de Janeiro state, making hundreds homeless, flooding roads and paralyzing Brazil’s second city yesterday.

A 39-year-old man of Number 28 Village, West Coast Berbice sustained a fractured skull following a blow to his head around 3 am yesterday and is in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Caricom Secretary-General Edwin Carrington said disaster preparedness is critical for the Caribbean at the commissioning of a Doppler radar weather system in Trinidad and Tobago.

CHALA, Peru (Reuters) – Peruvian President Alan Garcia said yesterday new laws to curb wildcat mining may be amended but insisted miners must first remove a roadblock on a main highway where six people died in a clash with police.

– weep after sentence handed down Two unemployed young men of Hopetown, West Coast Berbice burst into tears after they were sentenced to seven years in jail for armed robbery and possession of arms and ammunition, at the Blairmont Court yesterday.

BEIJING/OTTAWA (Reuters) – A cyber-espionage group based in southwest China stole documents from the Indian Defence Ministry and emails from the Dalai Lama’s office, Canadian researchers said in a report yesterday.

Less than one week after the United States Embassy in St Andrew indicated that Bounty Killer was among five Jamaican entertainers to have their visas revoked, the 38-year-old has found himself in more trouble with the law.

Ituni families are benefiting from the non-timber resources of the forest as much as the logs they harvest with the implementation of a project that promotes an alternative livelihood using the seeds and vines.

SINABANG, Indonesia (Reuters) – A major earthquake of 7.7 magnitude struck off the coast of Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra today, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.

An elderly woman is now nursing injuries in the Georgetown Public Hospital after she was struck down by a minibus on Saturday.

Oil stake under study Venezuela is to reopen negotiations with the Dominican Republic to acquire 49% of a Dominican oil refinery.