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The United States is continuing to deny a visa to RUSAL boss Oleg Deripaska despite repeated request by Russia for an explanation and the enlisting of a US firm to help with the application.

Several cane-cutters at Enmore have downed tools to protest the weekly sugar target at the East Coast estate among other issues, but the sugar corporation has not agreed to negotiations.

A sixteen-year-old boy was today charged with murder in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Five Guyanese seamen were on Saturday deported to Guyana after they were fined for conspiracy to traffic in electronics that had been stolen from a local yachtsman, the St Maarten Daily Herald has reported.

Parents and students shut down the Golden Grove Primary School this morning protesting the lack of potable water and a subsequent decision to hold “double sessions”.

Parents of children at the Bagotville Primary School, West Bank Demerara, this morning shut the doors of the school over what they have described as its “terrible condition.”

…On the heels of argument about Kamla (Trinidad Express) Talk show host and cricket commentator Fazeer Mohammed is questioning the timing of his dismissal from State-owned media network Caribbean New Media Group (CNMG).

(Go Jamaica) Plans by the United Kingdom (UK) to deport Jamaicans convicted in that country could create diplomatic problems between the UK and Jamaican governments.

The Manager of Mahaicony Rice Mills (MRM) Limited, Taramattie Ghanie was told to report to the Mahaicony police station this morning at 8.30 to assist in the process of making the accounts of the company available.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan wicketkeeper Zulqarnain  Haider quit international cricket today saying he feared  for his safety after being ordered to cooperate with  match-fixers during the recent one-day series with South Africa.

A fire of unknown origin this afternoon reduced two houses at June Street, Golden Grove,  East Coast Demerara to ashes.

The European Union has launched a worldwide consultation on the future of budget support to developing countries.

(BBC) A doctor in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, says she has seen cases of suspected cholera, sparking fears that the epidemic has spread to the city.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Pakistan wicketkeeper Zulqarnain  Haider has arrived in England after mysteriously disappearing  hours before the fifth and final one-day international against  South Africa in Dubai.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar was to fly out to the United States today, where she is expected to hold a high-level meeting with United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

-were in car without licence plates Two men, who police trailed into the Guyhoc Park area, were injured during an exchange of gunfire which they allegedly initiated.

The body of a 52-year-old man was found early this morning in a Skeldon yard with a cut and bruises to the  face, the police have said.

The police today said that they received a report yesterday that on Thursday logger Cleveland Hetemeyer of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, was shot and killed during an armed robbery about 90 miles up the Canje River, Berbice.

The Ministry of Health has a very robust anti-Tuberculosis (TB) programme and will be vigorously pursuing all reports of TB regardless of the source, according to Minister within the Health Ministry Dr.

All three victims  from Friday’s Linden speedboat mishap have now been found.