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Amidst complaints of it being unreasonable and not practical, the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has publicly restated its right to search any local aircraft.

Ranks of the Guyana Police Force on Friday last conducted a 12-hour drug eradication exercise at Gateroy, Upper Berbice River, during which four fields measuring about 8 acres were found cultivated with Cannabis Sativa with an estimated 10, 000 plants measuring between 2-6 feet in height and with a weight of approximately 21000 kilograms, police said yesterday.

Quick response on the part of an inmate and prison officers of the Lusignan Prison on Saturday evening, led to the extinguishing of a fire of electrical origin, which broke out in one of the institution’s dormitories.

To commemorate the life of Claude Alphonso Merriman, President David Granger unveiled a bust at the Merriman Mall on Vlissengen Road on Saturday.

Education Minister and Working People’s Alliance (WPA) leader, Dr Rupert Roopnaraine should publicly address his role as a director in the private company that supervised the controversial D’Urban Park project, says his fellow party executive Dr David Hinds.

The Maritime Administration Department says that all vessels entering and leaving the Waini and Pomeroon rivers must report to the authorities.

The Sixteenth Rupununi Expo  kicked off on Saturday with scores of patrons from across Guyana and persons in the diaspora participating, GINA said.

The People’s National Congress Reform says it is deeply saddened at the passing of Fidel Castro, the former President of Cuba.

The Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) is warning that with immediate effect the Guyana Fertiliser Wharf, north of Muneshwer’s Limited on the Demerara River has been deemed unsafe for the mooring of vessels.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Hardline reformist Francois Fillon scored a resounding win in France’s conservative primaries yesterday, making him favourite to win a presidential election five months from now against the popular far-right and a deeply divided left.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s state prosecutor said yesterday it would charge 11 members of the military for responsibility in the death of 12 civilians following a security raid last month in the violent country’s coastal state of Miranda.

(Reuters) – Reuters first established a presence in Havana before the Second World War and covered every major story of the Fidel Castro era since his 1959 Cuban revolution, from the Bay of Pigs invasion to his sickness in old age.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Several thousand residents of rebel-held eastern Aleppo fled shifting frontlines, residents and a monitor said yesterday, after a rapid advance by the Syrian army and allied forces that rebels fear could split their most important urban stronghold in two.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – From the Bay of Pigs invasion to a historic visit by President Barack Obama to Havana, Cubans have known for generations that whenever the United States turns its face to Cuba, Fidel Castro would be staring right back.

BENGALURU,  (Reuters) – Anticipating a more protectionist U.S. technology visa programme under a Donald Trump administration, India’s $150 billion IT services sector will speed up acquisitions in the United States and recruit more heavily from college campuses there.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Superstar Chris Gayle announced his arrival in the Bangladesh Premier League like only he can, hitting a boundary-studded cameo to help propel Chittagong Vikings to a nine-wicket win over Rangpur Riders here Sunday.

PALM BEACH, Fla./WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that besides winning the Electoral College “in a landslide” in the Nov.

An East Ruimveldt resident is in a serious condition at the GPHC, after being shot thrice about his body by a licenced firearm holder about 02:00 hrs this morning at the Wings and Things Bar, located at Mandela Avenue, the police said in a release.

(Trinidad Guardian) Perhaps it was her heightened hearing as a result of being visually impaired, but Alicia Lalite could hear me approaching while standing in the doorway of the PhD Business Administration Office at the Department of Management Studies building, University of the West Indies (UWI), St Augustine.

The allocation of land at ‘Pradoville 2’ was a clandestine arrangement that was handled personally by former housing minister Irfaan Ali, according to the findings of a recently completed forensic audit, which has said that a criminal case for malfeasance can be made against the PPP/C Cabinet members who benefited.