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Minister of Agriculture Noel Holder announced yesterday that Buxton will be getting three additional pumps to help the community fight flooding.

Moved by the plight of teenager Christopher Boucher, who is in need of corrective eye surgery, a retired UK-based Guyanese philanthropist has committed to help.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Monday held a session on its planned introduction of the Automated System for Customs Data (ASYCUDA).

One of the lawyers representing former General Manager of the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) Nizam Hassan, who is accused of approving payments for substandard work on the rehabilitation of the company’s Robb Street headquarters, yesterday argued that the charge laid against the man discloses no criminal offence.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico’s new Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray said yesterday there is no way his country will pay for the wall that U.S.

The trial of Anjanie Boodnarine, the common-law wife of convicted drug trafficker Barry Dataram, for allegedly forging a passport, is set to begin today.

(Trinidad Guardian) After 30 hours of intense conciliation—a marathon session that finally ended Monday afternoon—the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) called off a strike at Petrotrin and signed an interim settlement with the state-owned energy company covering the period 2011-2014.

BELFAST, (Reuters) – After a decade of bitter compromises over paramilitaries and policing, Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government finally fell apart this week over the abuse by farmers of a green-energy grant to burn fuels such as wood pellets instead of coal.

A Sierra Leone national was yesterday fined and ordered deported after he admitted to entering the country illegally.

(Jamaica Observer) The governments of Jamaica and China on Monday signed an agreement for the construction of a 220-bed hospital for children in Montego Bay, St James.

CHARLESTON, S.C.,  (Reuters) – White supremacist Dylann Roof deserves to die for the hate-fueled killings of nine black churchgoers at a Bible study meeting in a Charleston, South Carolina, a U.S.

A South African man was on Monday charged with overstaying his time in Guyana.

(Reuters) – Two U.S.-based energy executives pleaded guilty yesterday to U.S.

ST JOHN’s, Antigua, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of former West Indies captain, Jimmy Adams, as its new Director of Cricket.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo today wrote President David Granger seeking clarification on the President’s view as it relates to a candidate for the Chairmanship of the Guyana Elections Commission.

Police ranks acting on information received, yesterday conducted several raids in the Broad Street, Charlestown neighbourhood for illegal drugs and firearms.

The People’s Progressive Party today condemned President David Granger’s rejection of the list of six names to be considered for Chairman of GECOM which had been submitted by Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo.

(Trinidad Guardian) After 30 hours of intense conciliation—a marathon session that finally ended yesterday afternoon—the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) called off a strike at Petrotrin and signed an interim settlement with the state-owned energy company covering the period 2011-2014.

One day after President David Granger announced that he had rejected the list of six names provided for the post of Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) Chairman, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo was officially notified of this development.

A man was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared at the Springlands Magistrate Court charged with chopping his former girlfriend and her mother on Christmas Eve.