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Three teenage girls- including two sisters- who have repeatedly escaped from a Corentyne shelter to enter the world of prostitution have been ordered to go to the New Opportunity Corps after they threatened to commit suicide.    The girls have been removed from Kamal International Home for Homeless Children and Battered Women and are in the custody of the police ...

A man, who took his girlfriend to a Berbice hospital after allegedly beating her badly because she was talking with another man, was arrested after she succumbed to her injuries, relatives and police sources said. She has been identified as 26-year old Jasmattie “Mamo” Dowlatram of Railway Line Dam. Ankervile Port Mourant. Police said the incident occurred Friday night at ...

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) has resumed its expansion programme now that its banking software has been upgraded, a senior official said Saturday. GBTI on Saturday officially opened its third branch at Port Mourant, Berbice in keeping with its ambition to open nine branches countrywide between 2012 and 2016. “We did this with quite a lot of ...

A top official of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has recommended that Guyana set up a Sovereign Wealth Fund to save and invest some of its earnings from extractive industries ahead of any economic downturn. “It allows a government to save money in the good times so that when the bad times come around the government does not necessarily have ...

Equipped with an “extremely high-tech” vehicular mobile shipping container scanner, imports and exports can now be checked at most locations to find un-customed goods, guns, explosives and drugs, a top Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) official said. The agreement for the donation of the scanner was signed Friday by Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh and China’s Ambassador to Guyana, Zhang Limin ...

A Venezuelan man was Friday arraigned on a charge of being in illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition after a Guyanese man alleged that the foreigner pulled a gun on him during an argument. Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry remanded Joel Pereira-Rodriguez to prison until December 11 when he would be sentenced. Pereira admitted that he was in possession of ...

Digicel (Guyana) Limited on Friday doled out more than GUY$11 million to help improve the lives of disabled school-age youths, cushion the impact of domestic violence and fight HIV and AIDS. The Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre (PRCC) is about to undergo rehabilitation works through a GUY$7 million project being funded by the phone company. PRCC Administrator, Cynthia Massay said construction ...

Local Government Minister, Ganga Persaud on Friday insisted that Carol Sooba was best suited to be appointed as the substantive Town Clerk of the Georgetown City Council. When told that Sooba was among several persons who Junior Local Government Minister, Norman Whittaker had said were unqualified for the job during a previous round of applications, Persaud said that Sooba has ...

Government on Friday rubbished claims by the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) that it has misused at least GUY$3 billion that have been set aside for public servants’ wages and salaries for 2013. A senior official of the Finance Ministry explained that the GUY$GUY$4,403,509 that were allocated for the revision of government employees’ pay-packets was not confined only to those ...

Elroy “God” Grenville who violated the Biblical Commandment- Thou Shall Not Kill- on Thursday escaped the hangman’s noose and was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for killing a man during an altercation of cows. A smiling Grenville walked out of the Berbice High Court back to jail saying “At least I ain’t get sentenced to death.” His sentence by Justice ...