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The National Toshaos Council (NTC) yesterday called on President David Granger to establish a separate commission to deal with land rights of the indigenous peoples, claiming it had not been consulted prior to the setting up of the recent Commission of Inquiry into Land Rights.

Taxi driver Michael McLeod, who police claim was found with over 50 pounds of cannabis in his home last October, was yesterday freed of a drug trafficking charge after the main witness in the case was a no-show.

Haleno Luiz, the Brazilian pastor who is charged with causing the death of a motorcyclist, has been released on bail.

The police file involving an officer, who had allegedly shot at a businessman who approached his car which was parked along the Fairfield Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD) almost two months ago, was yesterday sent to the Police Complaints Authority for recommendations.

More than a month after the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) submitted recommendations to fill its top three positions, Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Irfaan Ali has told Stabroek News that there is no such information before the committee.

Million-dollar bids were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the construction of a student dormitory at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara under the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples Affairs.

Two months after it began a review of the 2015 applications for senior promotions, the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) has issued a preliminary list, which the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) has deemed much more satisfactory than the first.

Mayor Patricia Chase-Green has put staff of the City Engineer’s Department on notice that the City Council would not tolerate inefficiency and laziness.

The Mayor and City Council will next week begin consultations with the business community to map out a new approach to garbage collection and disposal systems, in light of the high cost for the services to the city.

The Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) has partnered with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to facilitate a visit by an award-winning nature-based Peruvian entrepreneur for presentations on building and marketing tourism value chains in Guyana.

Guyanese will soon be able to expand their dining options with the grand opening of the first local Johnny Rockets franchise.

  RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Protesters in the Brazilian city of Campinas set up barricades of wood and tyres yesterday as they battled military police trying to evict hundreds of people from squatter settlements where they had been living since July, local media reported.

Municipal services offered to residents of Georgetown will be decentralised to outskirt communities, as the Mayor and City Council seeks to improve its delivery of services.

PARIS (Reuters) – Two French ministers will travel to French Guiana  yesterday to seek a solution to protests sweeping the French territory in South America.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Regional governments yesterday called on the Organization of American States to come up with a plan “in the shortest possible time” to address Venezuela’s political and humanitarian crisis.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc has dived into a spirited debate about graffiti in Brazil’s biggest city, drawing a pointed response yesteresday from Sao Paulo’s mayor, who called the company “opportunist” and challenged it to make a public donation.

As the April 1, deadline for end of the importation of used tyres looms, the PPP, in a press release, has called on the government to reverse its decision and to review the ban on vehicles that are eight years and older.

WASHINGTON (Reu-ters) – President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an order to undo Obama-era climate change regulations, keeping a campaign promise to support the coal industry and calling into question US support for an international deal to fight global warming.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is not seeking the immediate suspension of Vene-zuela from the Organization of American States, which is meeting yesterday to discuss the country’s political and economic crisis, a senior State Department official said.

Weeks after several senior PPP members, including former president Bharrat Jagdeo and close affiliates, were hauled in for questioning over the sale of land at ‘Pradoville 2’ at below market prices, the probe is still ongoing.