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Havana (Prensa Latina) – The 7th International Earth Science Convention will begin here tomorrow with geologists, geophysicists and miners from Latin America, North America, Europe and Africa.

(Reuters) – Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out on Friday at European Union critics of his bloody anti-narcotics campaign, threatening to “slap” them.

Residents of Cinema Road, Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara said they have been suffering as a result of the condition of the road and are calling on the authorities to bring relief.

Guyana is not among members of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) that have signed a statement condemning the decision of Venezuela Supreme Court to annul its congress.

LA PAZ (Reuters) – Doctors in Cuba removed a benign node from the vocal cords of Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, the Bolivian government said yesterday.

Geneva (Prensa Latina) – Cuba has maintained a zero tolerance policy for human trafficking, a crime that violates the human rights of the victims, the Havana embassy at the United Nations Office in Geneva has stated.

The Ministry of Natural Resources says that a Brazilian man lost his life in a mining accident in Micobie, Region 8 (Potaro-Siparuni) last evening.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Hometown boy Evin Lewis went on a six-hitting spree to lead the charge with a pugnacious 91 that ended West Indies’ home season losing skid in style with a convincing seven-wicket victory over Pakistan in the third Twenty20 International today here.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC — Pace legend Sir Curtly Ambrose has debunked recent assertions by West Indies Twenty20 captain Carlos Brathwaite and head coach Stuart Law, that the regional side is making progress despite losing the opening two games of the four-match series against Pakistan.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry today backed calls for the immediate revoking of the parking meters contract and at the same time posed a series of questions to the city and the government on the deal.

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) has been certified as the registered proprietor of geographical indication, ‘Demerara Rum’.

(Trinidad Guardian) The High Court has granted an order brought by Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi to freeze the funds of Shane Crawford under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities called on the country’s Supreme Court to review its decision this week to annul the opposition-led congress, which critics have decried as a “coup” and a lurch to dictatorship.

Already dissatisfied with the scrapping of a five-year contract they had with government, young doctors are now bemoaning the removal of their tax-free allowance for working on-call and they want government to meet and discuss the issues with them.

Skeletal remains, suspected to be those of Lilwantie Balack, were yesterday found buried in a farm behind her Black Bush Polder home, where her husband directed police after he reportedly confessed to strangling her.

The University of Guyana (UG) Council on Thursday agreed to increase tuition fees for students over the next three academic years.

Bruce Lovell is leading a three-member Com-mission of Inquiry (CoI) that has been set up to probe the interception, detention and subsequent release of an unnamed vessel that was in Guyana’s sea space last month.

Having detained 2,000 cartons of ‘Buiwick’ tuna for its “misleading” labelling, the Government Analyst-Food and Drug Depart-ment (GA-FDD) will have to defend its decision to do so in the High Court.

Amidst mounting doubts over the fate of the East Demerara Sugar Estate, GuySuCo says that the poor turnout of cane harvesters is greatly affecting whether there will be sufficient land to plant at the next crop.

The long-awaited setting up of a local television station at Linden continues to face obstacles with the now 14-member board of the Region Ten Broadcasting Inc (RTBI) adjourning a meeting yesterday over the failure of founding director Sharma Solomon to provide other directors with the “articles of association.”