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Heavy rain is expected from tomorrow to Wednesday, according to the National Weather Watch Centre.

The Mayor and City Council today said it intends to apply to the Minister of Communities for confirmation of the Georgetown Metered Parking bylaws, which was approved by the Mayor and City Council.

(Trinidad Guardian) The brazenness of the country’s killers went to the extreme in two separate murders that took the toll to 450 for the year between Thursday night and yesterday morning.

Government and the city were jolted into reality yesterday after intense and prolonged rain coincided with the spring tide, flooding the capital for hours and exposing the danger of dependence on kokers.

Seventeen hundred cases of sardine imported from China were denied entry into Guyana after it was found that the labelling was tampered with and the tins were rusting, the Government Analyst– Food and Drug Department said yesterday.

Heavy rainfall coupled with a spring tide inundated large sections of Georgetown yesterday, leaving many businesses bailing water, but this failed to deter consumers, who flooded the streets to get their Christmas shopping done.

-`consideration for the transaction was stated to be in Guyana dollars’ Banks DIH Limited (BDIH) has defended its $5.5b repurchase of its shares from a Barbados company saying that the amount paid was based on a 2015 valuation conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday called on the government to keep a close watch on the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) following yesterday’s heavy rain.

Heavy flooding in East Berbice yesterday, which some residents feel was exacerbated by a broken dam, put a damper on the Christmas spirit, leaving many residents confined to their homes.

Three days after he accused the two union groupings in the country, the TUC and FITUG, of “virtual impotence”, Minister in the Ministry of Social Protection, Keith Scott  has apologised for the remark.

Floodwaters, the result of persistent overnight rainfall coupled with a spring tide began to recede from affected communities on the West Coast Berbice late yesterday afternoon.

‘The police are now treating Thursday’s attack during which two armed bandits stormed the Diamond Fire Station as an attempted robbery since they say no valuables were stolen from the victims during the incident.

The Opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) sees President David Granger’s request for the curricula vitae (CV) of the six nominees for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) as fair but says they [nominees] are well-known.

A Wismar, Linden resident was yesterday refused bail on a charge of trafficking in cannabis and being in possession of an unlicensed firearm when he appeared before a city court.

A son was yesterday placed before the court by his father after he allegedly changed the registration of his father’s car into his name.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday allowed the U.N.

A Grove resident was yesterday brought before a city court and charged with robbing a woman of cash and other items.

KINSHASA,  (Reuters) – Congolese politicians have agreed in principle to a deal under which President Joseph Kabila leaves office by the end of 2017, opposition leaders said yesterday, an unexpected breakthrough after dozens were killed in anti-government protests this week.

VALLETTA,  (Reuters) – Hijackers armed with what were probably replica weapons forced an airliner to land in Malta yesterday before freeing all their hostages unharmed and surrendering, having declared loyalty to Libya’s late leader Muammar Gaddafi.

MILAN,  (Reuters) – Italian police shot dead the man believed responsible for this week’s Berlin Christmas market truck attack, killing him after he pulled a gun on them during a routine check in the early hours yesterday.