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Another suspect has been arrested in connection with the robbery on November 9 at the home of People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Clement Rohee.

President David Granger will later this month travel to Barbados to take part in the island’s 50th independence anniversary celebrations, Minister of State Joseph Harmon announced yesterday.

A 20- year old resident of Grant 1805 Crabwood Creek was on Monday charged with driving under the influence, failure to stop after an accident and failure to report to the police after he struck down three sexagenarians on Friday around 05: 20 hrs in Crabwood Creek.

Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman says the government is considering allocating a part of the 1.6M hectares previously held by Barama Company Limited for conservation.

Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton plans to meet with Director of the Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department Marlan Cole and the Chief Executive Officer of Sueria Manufactur-ing Frank Sanichara to get to the bottom of allegations of abuse of power levelled against the Director.

Police are investigating the murder of Junior Moses, 44 years, a farmer, of Barima, NWD, which occurred about 1840h on Wednesday at Ela Landing, Barima, NWD.

The two drivers who were involved in the accident that resulted in the death of four-year-old Abeka Trotman are expected to be charged sometime next week.

The attorney representing Sharlene Oxley, the Pattensen businesswoman who is on trial for human trafficking, yesterday urged a court to free her of the charge due to a lack of supporting evidence.

Instead of asking the central government for a liquid financial $600 million bailout, City Hall should have asked the government to write off debts owed to the state power company, Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan says.

PPP/C Member of Parliament Juan Edghill has been summoned to appear before the Privileges Committee today over statements he made last year about the salary increase given to government ministers.

Leroy Williams, one of the men charged with lobbing a grenade outside of the Kaieteur News, yesterday disrupted the proceedings in the Chief Magistrate’s courtroom, where he ended up in a scuffle with orderlies.

Residents of several villages in the Rupununi District have been called upon to exercise accountability and independence when undertaking community-based projects in keeping with the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples Affairs Sustainable Deve-lopment Framework Agreement (SDFA).

It has been five weeks since boat builder, Clement Skeete was fatally struck down on the Bagotville Public Road, West Bank Demerara and his family is still awaiting word on whether charges will be laid Contacted on Tuesday for a comment on the matter,

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos and Marxist FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londono signed a revised peace accord yesterday in a far more sober ceremony than a first deal rejected last month by millions at a plebiscite.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday tore into his successor Narendra Modi’s clampdown on the cash economy, calling it an “organised loot and legalised plunder” of the country.

The designer of Guyana’s flag, the Golden Arrow Head, American Citizen, Dr Whitney Smith has died.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – The dollar rose to an 8-month high against the yen yesterday, lifted by U.S.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa saw his chances of becoming South Africa’s next leader increase yesterday when a powerful union group backed him to succeed President Jacob Zuma as head of the ruling party.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – A strong earthquake off the Pacific Coast of Central America shook the region yesterday just as a hurricane barreled into the Caribbean coasts of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, but there were no immediate reports of any quake damage.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – A suicide truck bomb killed about 100 people, most of them Iranian Shi’ite pilgrims, at a petrol station in the city of Hilla 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad yesterday, police and medical sources said.