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(Trinidad Guardian) The TTPS will not charge anyone for the death of Jayden Lalchan citing insufficient evidence to prove bullying played a role in his death.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine said yesteday its hard-pressed military was battling 50,000 troops in Russia’s Kursk region to its north, while also scrambling to reinforce two besieged fronts in the east and bracing to meet an infantry assault in the south.

(Trinidad Express) There will be no devaluing of the TT dollar as this will not increase the availability of foreign exchange in the country.

On behalf of the Assuria Insurance Company, Ravindra Roy and  Kevin Allen donated twenty chairs and twenty fans to the Commander of Regional Police Division No.3 Senior Superintendent Khalid Mandall at the Division Headquarters Leonora, West Coast Demerara on Saturday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – A Spirit Airlines flight destined for the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince was struck by gunfire today, forcing it to be diverted to the neighboring Dominican Republic.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Violence and crime absorb almost 3.5% of Latin America and the Caribbean’s (LAC) economic output, depleting funds that could be used in education and assisting the vulnerable, a report by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) showed.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Althea Graham-Dolly rested her Bible on a chair, and having donned her hat in preparing to head off to church, was turning back to retrieve something when gunmen, who had been travelling in a motor car, attacked and shot her several times Sunday morning.

BAKU,  (Reuters) – The annual U.N. climate summit began today with some prominent leaders planning to skip the event ahead of tough talks on finance and trade, after a year of weather disasters that have emboldened developing countries’ demands for cash.

(Trinidad Express) There will be no devaluing of the TT dollar as this will not increase the availability of foreign exchange in the country.

(Reuters) – Hundreds of people today set out on a nine-day march to New Zealand’s capital of Wellington in protest over legislation that would reinterpret a treaty at the heart of race relations in the Pacific country.

LIMA/BEIJING, (Reuters) – In South American copper giant Peru, the incoming Donald Trump White House will find itself already on the losing side in a trade battle with China, part of a bigger power realignment around the resource-rich region in Washington’s backyard.

-says details to be made public shortly   The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) says that it has signed off on the second cost oil audit which the VHE [Vitality Accounting, Haynes and Ramdihal and Eclisar Financial] consortium had undertaken in 2022 and it will be made public this week. 

A total of $300 million was allocated in the national budget for the restoration and enhancement of Georgetown to the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown, with a range of initiatives aimed at improving the capital city’s infrastructure back in 2019.

The absence of essential social services in Port Kaituma, Region One means that there is no recourse for the more than 20 reported cases of child abuse, sexual assault, and suicide among the local youth, according to residents and community advocates.

The police are investigating a river mishap at Fish Pond, Middle Mazaruni River, that resulted in the death of Davenand Williams of Kangaruma Village, Middle Mazaruni River.

Police are investigating an incident that occurred yesterday at approximately 1:25 am outside the 626 Bar in Good Hope, East Coast Demerara, in which a 19-year-old contractor sustained a gunshot wound to the arm.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Guyana this week gave notification that two auditors, including one that did ExxonMobil’s $7 billion cost audit and has signed on to do the third audit, have had their certification suspended and thus cannot issue statutory opinions in this country.

The Guyana Fire Service’s (GFS) Fire Prevention Department has launched an investigation to ascertain the cause of the fire that damaged the fourth floor of Fireside Suites Hotel at Lot 154 Garnett Street, Newtown Kitty, George-town, on Saturday afternoon.

Police are investigating a fatal crash which occurred yesterday at approximately 12:10 hrs, on the public road at Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara and resulted in the death of a 47-year-old pedestrian. 

Doing its part to help Guyanese acquire the much-needed skills to contribute to the nation’s fast-growing economy, especially in the oil & gas sector, the Nations School of Technology has announced that the first cohort of its City and Guilds Level 1 Award in Manual Metal Arc Welding was completed on Friday November 8, a release from the institution stated recently.