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A Bourda Market vendor is now traumatised and scared for her life after she was beaten and robbed in her yard on Saturday night.

A number of mining sector policies will be reviewed to improve performance, according to Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman.

Discussions began on Friday by the Guyana Government with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Co.

First Lady, Sandra Granger on Saturday appealed to citizens to speak out against gender-based violence.

Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira has labelled the APNU+AFC administration’s attempts at making “a fresh start” in running the country a failure.

Cabinet on November 24 gave its no-objection to infrastructure projects worth $619m, key among which is the Potaro main access road.

Minister of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs Sydney Allicock says planned interventions under the proposed 2017 national budget demonstrate the importance of the indigenous communities and peoples to the process of national development.

The police are still looking for the four bandits who stormed the International Fisheries Limited on Saturday afternoon at the Eccles Industrial Site and robbed and beat six employees before carting off an undisclosed amount of cash.

A five-year strategic plan for social cohesion is almost completed, Minister of Social Cohesion Amna Ally has reported to the National Assembly.

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – Islamic State captured the ancient city of Palmyra yesterday despite dozens of Russian airstrikes to push back the militants a day after they briefly seized the city in eastern Syria, a war monitor and the militants said.

ISTANBUL,  (Reuters) – An offshoot of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) claimed responsibility on Sunday for twin bombings that killed 38 people and wounded 155 outside an Istanbul soccer stadium, an attack for which the Turkish government vowed vengeance.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – A bombing at Cairo’s largest Coptic cathedral killed at least 25 people and wounded 49, many of them women and children attending Sunday mass, in the deadliest attack on Egypt’s Christian minority in years.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela, mired in an economic crisis and facing the world’s highest inflation, will pull its largest bill, worth two U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said the United States did not necessarily have to stick to its long-standing position that Taiwan is part of “one China,” questioning nearly four decades of policy in a move likely to antagonize Beijing.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump rejected as “ridiculous” reported U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) From beheadings and having their throats slit, to brutal sexual attacks and disappearing without a trace, women in this country are becoming more and more afraid of being attacked for being loud or dressing provocatively or worse, because they are just there, doing nothing but minding their own business.

A significant quantity of Erythropoietin injections made in India and purchased for use by kidney disease patients, was seized by the Government Analyst, Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD), as the Indian manufacturers have reportedly been banned in the United States, but the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has since said that the entity acted rashly.

Story and photos by Joanna Dhanraj Almost every street had animals nibbling and grazing at whatever green was in their reach.

The City of Georgetown is projecting an annual income of $2.9 billion in 2017, with just over 4% or $120 million, coming from fees paid by citizens to park within the city.

There continues to be concern over President David Granger’s failure to act on a list of judicial nominees sent to him since May this year and former attorney-general Anil Nandlall has signalled his intention to approach the court for redress if the situation is not remedied in the near future.