Georgetown-The police are seeking the help of the public to identify the decomposed body of an East Indian which was found in a canal at North Ruimveldt, Georgetown.
The body was clad in a pair of blue pants; a blue, grey and white multi-coloured shirt; with a Casio wrist watch on his right hand, a green bag over his shoulder and barefooted.
 

Georgetown- Ranks stationed at the Kitty outpost were forced to evacuate the building along with prisoners following a bomb scare just minutes ago. The fire service and bomb squad were alerted. This has now become a trend since the start of the year. Just recently, there was one at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, putting a temporary halt to flights, but following a thorough sweep by authorities nothing was found.

The authorities while acknowledging that this mischievous trend often happens during an election year in Guyana, they are not taking any chances. 

Essequibo-
The police are investigating an incident that occurred. yesterday, at Aliki in the Essequibo River where Michelle Benjamin, 22 years of Gordon Street, Kitty, is feared to have drowned.
Investigations revealed that a boat with 10 passengers was travelling from Bird Island to Aliki, EBE, when the vessel began to take water and the persons panicked and jumped overboard. With assistance from persons on another boat nine of them were rescued, but Michelle Benjamin is believed to have drowned. Her body not yet been found.

 Georgetown – President Bharrat Jagdeo briefing the media this afternoon at the Office of the President said, general elections will definitely be held this year as constitutionally listed. He emphasized that he will not be contesting since his 2nd term comes to an end.

He said his People’s Progressive Party will elect a candidate and this will not be done in secret ballots.
 

 Georgetown – Enabling an accelerated deployment of Guyana’s first Mobile WiMAX network, Aptilo Networks, the global leader in pre-integrated solutions for control of billing, user services and access in wireless networks including Wi-Fi, WiMAX™ and LTE, has been selected by E-Networks Inc, the largest wireless Broadband Internet Service Provider in Guyana, to provide service management, prepayment capabilities and policy control for their WiMAX service.  

Camp street, Georgetown– The prison service backed by police investigators are trying to determine who may be responsible for secretly passing weapons, drugs and cell phones to prisoners at the Camp street jail. When contacted today, prison officials indicated that a number of suspects are being questioned as investigations continue into the recent find following a massive search. Prison officers are among those held for questioning.

Georgetown– Fire investigators this morning are examining the scene of the 2 am fire on Main & Holmes sts. which destroyed Humprey’s building where a number of businesses were housed. Nearby residents in the Tiger Bay area reported hearing explosions before fire was seen on the top floor of the old wooden building. Among the offices destroyed were that of Frandec and Liat travel services. Up to the time of this report, investigators were unable to say what caused the fire.