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A Queenstown fruits vendor was on Friday afternoon robbed by a lone gunman who made good his escape with the day’s sales.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – A police helicopter in Rio de Janeiro crashed yesterday evening, according to local media reports, killing four officers after a day of intense firefights between law enforcement and suspected criminals in the slum known as City of God.

GENEVA/CHICAGO (Reuters) – The World Health Organization on Friday declared that Zika no longer constitutes an international emergency, but it stressed a need for a long-term effort to address the virus, which has been linked to birth defects and neurological complications.

A trucker of Glasgow Housing Scheme, East Bank Berbice, was on Friday evening attacked at his home by bandits, who beat and robbed him of cash and jewellery.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis yesterday said an “epidemic of animosity” against people of other races or religions was hurting the weakest in society, striking a note of caution against the rise of populist nationalism.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) today fiercely condemned a pension bill for former Prime Minister Hamilton Green and said it should not be presented to Parliament.

(Reuters) – Zimbabwe seamer Donald Tiripano bowled a superb final over to help his side earn a dramatic tie in their Tri-Series one-day international against West Indies in Bulawayo on Saturday.

Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira has written Minister of State Joe Harmon inquiring about steps to be taken to appoint a new Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission following the resignation of the current holder Dr Steve Surujbally.

About 0100h. this morning, police say that Henry Mendonca, a Venezuelan and a male Guyanese, who both reside in Venezuela and had come to Guyana last night, were drinking at Eteringbang Landing, when they had a misunderstanding, during which process, the Guyanese broke a bottle and stabbed Mendonca twice to his abdomen.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police shot and killed a 15-year-old boy of Tunapuna yesterday which is being described by relatives as murder while police say it was a shoot-out with an armed “pest.”

Clebert Reece, one of two men who pleaded guilty to manslaughter after the massacre of 12 persons at Bartica on February 17, 2008, was yesterday sentenced to 35 years in jail.

The economic empowerment of Guyanese of African descent requires a collective effort and this is the impetus behind the founding of the African Business Roundtable (ABR) by the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA).

Amid mounting criticism of the slow progress towards constitutional reform, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo yesterday said that a bill for a consultative commission has been drafted and around $80M is being sought to move the process along.

An office assistant attached to the Kaieteur News died yesterday morning, hours after he was involved in a head-on collision involving a car along the Houston Public Road, East Bank Demerara.

Despite concern over the high incidence of criminal activities, government sees no need to further utilize the army in crime-fighting efforts, according to Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) National Conference, where the party’s leadership is expected to be contested, is scheduled to be held next January, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo announced yesterday.

Opposition Leader Bharat Jagdeo has called the government’s move to give former PNC Prime Minister Hamilton Green a pension on par with the “high office” he occupied between 1985 and 1992 duplicitous, while saying a case will have to be made that he is deserving.

President David Granger has granted his approval to a request for an extension of time for the submission of the final report of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the discovery of a foreign aircraft at Yupukari, in Region Nine, the Ministry of the Presidency has announced.

Close to 100 packets of compressed marijuana was found under the Stabroek Market canopy yesterday in a raid carried out by the City Constabulary.

Holding fast to promises made, the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) will soon implement new regulations for boating operations with the aim of reducing the occurrence of river accidents in the North West District.