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The Guyana Police Force (GPF) Traffic Department says the number of fatal road accidents dropped by 16% and fatalities were down by 10.4% in 2006 as compared with 2005.

A middle-aged resident of Georgetown was robbed of his jewellery on Tuesday night while standing in front of a nightspot on Sheriff Street.

A man who allegedly escaped from police custody while on a robbery under arms charge and was captured at the Main Big Lime was yesterday placed on $50,000 bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

A woman who allegedly abducted the baby of teenaged girl five days ago after she took her to purchase baby clothes was yesterday refused bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

A youth who killed another in February, 2005 following an argument was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment last week when his case was called in the High Court.

The 66-year-old father of now dead wanted man Neil Bovell appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a rape charge and was remanded to police custody.

A 33-year-old man died one day after he was hit on the head with a piece of wood which had nails on it.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday remanded into police custody 13 boys who allegedly broke into and robbed a man’s store of articles worth millions.

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Sad looking faces are what greet you when you enter the Matero clinic in the capital of Zambia, Lusaka and a feeling of depression hits you with such a powerful force, it is overwhelming.

Commissioner of Forests James Singh is maintaining that a shipment of logs which left Guyana in December on the vessel ‘Rong Cheng’ met all of the regulatory body’s requirements for export and that the body is not under any obligation to provide requested details.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) says that the businesses that remain errant in relation to the Value Added Tax (VAT) will have their names published in the press so that consumers can shun them.

Now that the Value Added Tax (VAT) is here consumers yesterday faced increased prices in the snack bar, the variety store and the supermarket without being sure that the prices reflected the removal of the consumption tax.

The VAT changeover on Monday has seen a range of improper practices by businesses leading to consumers complaining about an across-the-board 16% hike in the cost of living but the government has hailed the transition as a relatively smooth one.

The corporate community in the country and in the region has until January 14 to buy tickets in bulk under the corporate package, the ICC CWC Local Organising Committee (LOC) Finance Manager Chateram Ramdihal says.

Opposition Leader Robert Corbin says this year must mark a decisive shift towards national unity and warned the government against the notion that it alone can bring progress to what he described as “this troubled country of ours”.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has launched an investigation into reports by passengers of swaying and a dive by a Travel Span plane during a recent incoming flight.

President Bharrat Jagdeo last night announced that from this year’s budget $100M will be set aside annually for a sports and arts development fund.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC), in its new year’s message, has slammed the 5% wage hike for the public sector and has called on the government to commit itself to “the principle and practice of respect and adherence to the process of free collective bargaining.”

A prominent citizen is calling on members of the Guyana Police Force to look into the number of firearm licences that are handed to the young children of rich businesspeople here who he described as `baby phantoms’.