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Motorists in Central Georgetown were more relaxed in their approach to paid parking spaces yesterday but there were still many empty slots following Tuesday’s launch of the controversial project.

The body of missing fisherman Colin Nicholson, who fell overboard on Monday has been recovered from the Pomeroon River.

As the City’s plan to reclaim spaces that are being used illegally by businesses and citizens continues, a team from the City Council yesterday destroyed two concrete ramps on the pavements outside of the entrances to the Teleperformance Parking Lot on Camp and Church streets.

An ex-police officer was yesterday placed on $400,000 bail when he appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court charged with falsely obtaining $6.4M for gun licences, before Magistrate Rushell Liverpool.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday ordered construction of a U.S.-Mexican

During Monday’s statutory meeting, the Mayor and City Council passed a motion that barbers and cosmetologists operating on the Merriman Mall would have until July 31st to find themselves in enclosed spaces.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China is calmly mapping out global leadership aspirations from trade to climate change, drawing distinctions between President Xi Jinping’s steady hand and new U.S.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. stocks climbed yesterday and the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed atop the 20,000 mark for the first time as solid earnings and optimism over President Donald Trump’s pro-growth initiatives revitalized a post-election rally.

Four men pulled off a daring daylight robbery early yesterday on a Chinese Supermarket in South Ruimveldt Gardens and escaped with $700,000.

The absence of a juror and one of the accused in the 2008 Bartica massacre, yesterday morning, hindered the continuation of the trial which was scheduled to commence at 9:00hrs before Justice Roxane George SC at the High Court in Georgetown.

(Reuters) – Emmy-winning actress Mary Tyler Moore, who brightened American television screens as the perky suburban housewife on “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” and then as a fledgling feminist on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” died yesterday at the age of 80, a representative said.

Four women, who were arrested during a raid at the Rio Night Club last Friday, were taken before a city magistrate yesterday, where they were read several charges, including forgery and overstaying their permitted time.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Public health officials in Brazil are working to stop an outbreak of yellow fever that has killed at least 40 people from becoming an epidemic and urged people in nine states yesterday to seek vaccinations.

United States Court of Appeals judge J Clifford Wallace is in Guyana assisting with the implementation of a case management system for judges that is expected to help them make a dent in the 10,000 backlogged cases.

(Barbados Government Information Service) There will be no devaluation of the Barbados dollar!

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Two babies rescued from previously incurable leukaemia after receiving infusions of gene-edited immune cells are doing well at home more than a year after initial treatment, scientists said on Wednesday.

United Kingdom security expert Lt Col. (Rtd) Russell Combe is in Guyana to work on the Security Sector Reform Action Plan (SSRAP) in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Security and the Guyana Police Force, Director of Public Information Imran Khan has said.

Police are investigating a robbery under arms committed on Hanson Forde, 24 years, an excavator operator and his mother Dawn Martin, 40 years, a housewife both of Crane Housing Scheme, WCD, which occurred about 20:20 h.

The Alliance for Change today announced that Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and Raphael Trotman have been nominated for the leadership post currently held by Khemraj Ramjattan who will also be running again at the party’s National Conference on Saturday.

Discussions were held on Monday between the government and the Islamic Development Bank IsDB, with regards to the funding of affordable housing solutions and urban renewal in Guyana.