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The Georgetown City Council is set for mayoral elections today and the incumbent Patricia Chase-Green is expected to be challenged by Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan.

The hearing before the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) over the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company’s (GTT) landline rate increase proposal was adjourned until next year after the commission requested additional documents yesterday.

Following a trial in the New Amsterdam Magistrate Court before Magistrate Alex Moore, a mother of thirteen, from the East Bank of Berbice was found guilty of three counts of child neglect, last week Monday.

One of the suspects who was detained in relation to Monday’s home invasion during which cambio dealer Devendra Churaman was robbed of millions in cash and jewellery was yesterday positively identified as a member of the gang who committed the crime.

On Tuesday evening, City Constable Ragland Williams, 52, was attacked at the Merriman Mall playground by two bandits, who stabbed him about his body in what he related were efforts to steal a bicycle.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – World powers can stop a “Rwanda-like” genocide in South Sudan if they immediately deploy a 4,000-strong protection force across the country and set up a court to prosecute atrocities, the head of a U.N.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Political conflict between Venezuela’s opposition run legislature and socialist government flared again yesterday after the breakdown of Vatican-led talks, as each side moved to appoint its own members to the national election board.

Family members of Rajwantie Baldeo, the US-based Guyanese woman who was hacked to death in Queens, New York more than one week ago yesterday paid their last respects to her during a funeral service held at her Enmore, East Coast Demerara home.

  NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump and some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful executives met at his Manhattan tower yesterday, a summit convened to smooth over frictions after both sides made no secret of their disdain for each other during the election campaign.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez failed to get into a meeting of the Mercosur trade bloc yesterday after threatening to enter through the window if necessary, despite her country being thrown out of the group this month.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – A prominent Chilean business leader presented the country’s economy minister with an inflatable doll on stage at an event late yesterday, sparking a social media storm and criticism by President Michelle Bachelet.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombia’s FARC rebels have expelled five commanders for refusing to demobilize and join a peace process with the government aimed at ending more than five decades of war, guerrilla leadership said.

DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) – Tanzania’s president, John Magufuli, has vowed to root out corruption in his ruling party, threatening “no mercy” for anyone giving or taking bribes.

   (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc said on Wednesday that it has identified a new system breach that occurred in August 2013 and involved data associated with more than one billion user accounts.

Ranks of the Guyana Police Force are investigating a robbery under arms committed on an employee of the Tower Suites on Main Street, Georgetown at 1230h today, by two males, who have since been apprehended by the police.

ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC- Sports psychologist Dr.Rudi Webster has welcomed the appointment of former West Indies cricketer Jimmy Adams as the region’s new Director of cricket.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Political conflict between Venezuela’s opposition-run legislature and socialist government flared again today after the breakdown of Vatican-led talks, as each side moved to appoint its own members to the national election board.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) employee was killed and another wounded as gunmen attacked them as they were repairing a leaking water line in Powder Magazine, Cocorite, yesterday.

Two ranks attached to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), who recently refused a $4M bribe to duck a murder case, were among the lawmen who were awarded for their services to the Guyana Police Force yesterday.

Author, physicist, educator and former ambassador Edward Ricardo Braithwaite, best known for his book, ‘To Sir With Love,’ passed away on Monday at age 104, according to the Associated Press (AP).