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Former Attorney General Anil Nandlall today asked what had become of the online edition of the Official Gazette which had been inaugurated under his tenure in 2013.

 (Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley went on the offensive in San Fernando on Monday night, telling Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar that the number of children he has inside and outside of his marriage “is none of her god-damned business.”

Government is currently considering a proposal to pay miners less than the world market price for gold, prompting a warning from the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) and the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO), which say the move would do more harm to the mining industry.

The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) in collaboration with the Ministries of Public Security and Public Health yesterday launched its National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) at Project Dawn, Liliendaal.

After interrogation, police say two suspects yesterday confessed to murdering the carpenter who was found dead on the Number 70 Public Road just over two weeks ago.

Colette Parks, the woman who allegedly rented the getaway vehicle used by the men who robbed the home of People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Clement Rohee, was yesterday charged with two counts of armed robbery and remanded to prison.

Clairmont Reid, the Vryheid’s Lust man charged with underreporting the currency he had on him when he returned to the country in June, yesterday changed his plea to guilty and was fined $250,000 and ordered to forfeit over $2 million.

Queen’s College students yesterday protested the proposed construction of a canteen in an area on the school’s grounds presently used for Agricultural Science.

A woman was yesterday remanded to prison after she was charged trafficking an underage youth for sex work.

The street on which the Chinese Embassy is located is to be named “Fuzhou Road” by the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown, in honour of the city’s relationship with the Chinese city of Fuzhou.

A woman is now nursing a gunshot wound to her jaw after she was accidentally shot by her husband while he was cleaning his gun.

Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday ruled that a statement made to police by Darrol Compton, one of the two men accused of murdering Babita Sarjou, was given voluntarily.

A William Street, Kitty resident was yesterday granted $70,000 bail after denying that he pulled a gun on his ex-girlfriend.

Guyana has agreed to issue a plan early next year detailing its clean energy transition including a “facts-based consideration of the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) and all other possible renewable energy options”.

One day after failing to attend a meeting with the Ministers of Social Protection on Wednesday, the Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.

  Cabinet has approved a request by the Ministry of Public Telecommunications to enter into an agreement with the Huawei Technologies Company of China to conduct a feasibility study for a countrywide internet connection project.

BOGOTA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Colombia must move swiftly to implement a new peace accord signed between the government and rebels to stop armed groups filling power vacuums and committing human rights violations amid the fragile ceasefire, the United Nations said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) -Police believe a father, his firstborn child and the father’s employee were killed at Reid Lane, D’Abadie, on Tuesday night, because they failed to attend a funeral or show any support to grieving relatives of three people killed in the community two weeks ago.

MERIAN MINE, Suriname, (Reuters) – Suriname President Desi Bouterse and Newmont Mining Corp Chief Executive Gary Goldberg inaugurated the open-pit Merian gold mine yesterday, which is expected to give a boost to the small, economically struggling South American country.

The trial of Devindra Rooplall, who is accused of bludgeoning his drinking partner to death over a gambling row, continued yesterday before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow and a 12-member jury at the High Court in Georgetown.