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The Guyana Congregational Union will conduct a number of activities this month in observance of the Bicenten-nial of Congregationalism in Guyana starting with a one-week visit by the General Secretary of the Council for World Mission today.

Nickerie District Commissioner, Bhagwatpersad Shankar has grounded four Surinamese boats operating a ferry service between Guyana via the `backtrack’ route at Corriverton.

The National Assembly is still not autonomous in terms of staffing and budget in keeping with constitutional provisions, and a special parliamentary select committee has been appointed to look at the issue of staffing.

Two armed men yesterday forced a man into their vehicle in an apparent kidnapping after first chasing him from King Street to Regent Street.

Leader of the Opposition and PNCR-1G Robert Corbin said that it was unacceptable that the Lusignan tragedy was being used as an excuse for a brutal assault on people and wanton and unprovoked destruction of their property in Buxton and neighbouring communities.

Members of the Joint Services found a small boy in possession of a concussion grenade in the Friendship, ECD, area on Thursday January 31, leading to the arrest of a male and a female relative.

The PPP has condemned aspects of Kaieteur News’s coverage of the Lusignan massacre and subsequent events.

The country’s first block of townhouses, with spacious three-storey apartments in a gated community, is about to be opened with 70 per cent of occupancy accounted for, Executive Director of Gafsons Group of Companies Sattaur Gafoor said.

After years suffering from a tumour growing in his nasal cavity and numerous public appeals by his mother for financial assistance to obtain medical attention abroad, 15-year-old Ricardo Bynoe will be leaving for Maryland, US, today to have surgery.

The business community and some residents in Lethem do not feel that the border township is ready for the level of trans-border activities which is expected in another few months when the Takutu Bridge opens, because of the lack of physical infrastructure and services.

The two men who were arrested on Friday when joint services ranks searched the Friendship home of Tenisha Morgan, yesterday remained in police custody as investigations continue into the teen’s mysterious disappearance.

The Women’s Affairs Bureau (WAB) says this is a time of testing for the families of the victims of the massacre at Lusignan and the nation as a whole.

Following calls that were received at city schools over the past two days threatening to harm students, Education Minister Shaik Baksh on Friday decried the tactic as a callous and cowardly one in which some persons were seeking to drive fear into the population by disrupting the schooling of children.

The Public Accounts Com-mittee (PAC) of Parliament is concerned that the funds from the Guyana Lotteries continue to elude the Consolidated Fund, four years after then Auditor General Anand Goolsarran had pronounced on it in strong terms.

Whenever the opposition PNCR provides a photograph of the former Leader of the Opposition and President Desmond Hoyte to the Office of the Parliament it would be placed in the parliament chambers, Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran said.

Former St Lucian Prime Minister and academic, Professor Vaughan Lewis believes Dominica or other Caricom countries who give their support to the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) see it as just another avenue for obtaining economic aid which is not available in Caricom.

A former PNCR Central Executive member and member of Team Alexander which challenged PNCR Leader Robert Corbin’s position at the party’s last biennial congress is urging Corbin to transfer the leadership of the party to party chairman, Winston Murray.

A 24-year-old father of four was on Thursday placed on $30,000 bail for allegedly snatching a woman’s gold chain.

At the Weldaad Court on Thursday, Magistrate Tejnarine Ramroop sentenced an unemployed man to 10 years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to two counts of break and enter and larceny.

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday fined ten Venezuelans and a Nigerian and ordered them deported immediately after she found them guilty of entering Guyana illegally.