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Hosororo, a small community within the Mabaruma sub-district of Region One (Barima/Waini), exudes serenity.

A large quantity of contraband items, including improvised weapons as well as cell phones and drugs, were seized during raids conducted at the Georgetown and New Amsterdam prisons yesterday as part of increased security measures.

The police are hunting for the tenant who allegedly shot his landlord four times in his legs on Friday evening, after he was warned to discontinue doing illegal business on the man’s property.

The over 1,600 new graduates of the University of Guyana (UG) were yesterday urged to stay and make the country great once more.

When 23-year-old Dr Kibwey Peterkin delivered the 50th valedictorian’s address at the University of Guyana’s convocation ceremony last evening, he became not only the first medical student to do so but the first student from the Faculty of Health Sciences to have earned the honour.

Thieves broke into the Brickdam Secondary School sometime between Thursday afternoon and Friday morning and carted off two laptop computers and a quantity of cash.

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – An explosion claimed by militant group Islamic State ripped through a Muslim shrine in southwestern Pakistan yesterday, killing at least 52 people and wounding scores, officials said.

A Bel-Air resident is wanted by the police for questioning in connection to a multi-million-dollar fraud at the ScotiaBank, Carmichael Street location and two other persons including an employee of the bank are also the subjects of the investigation.

ExxonMobil has begun investing funds in the Diamond Special Needs School to improve its infrastructure and enhance the capacity of its teachers in relation to special needs education.

LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian prosecutors said they have evidence to convict ex-president Ollanta Humala of money laundering, accusing him of taking illicit funds from Venezuela and Brazilian construction companies, the attorney general’s office said Friday.

Two recreational grounds in south Georgetown were on Friday commissioned by the Department of Culture Youth and Sport of the Ministry of Education as a part of its Community Grounds Enhancement Project.

  NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES(Reuters) – Chanting “Not my president” and “Love trumps hate,” thousands of demonstrators took the streets in cities across the United States yesterday to protest against President-elect Donald Trump, who they say threatens their civil and human rights.

A framework for the reform of Guyana’s security sector is being developed with members of an advance team working with Guyanese investigators to assess the strengths and weaknesses of our current security programme.

WASHINGTON/MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) – Donald Trump is seeking quick ways of withdrawing from a global agreement to limit climate change, a source on his transition team said, defying widening international backing for the plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon last Thursday said that any dispute between Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud and former acting Commissioner David Ramnarine should have and could have been handled internally.

QAYYARA, Iraq (Reuters) – The skin on five-year-old Doaa’s legs, arms and neck is blackened and hard even weeks after the attack.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Anger was rising across India yesterday as banks struggled to dispense cash after the government withdrew large denomination notes in a shock move aimed at uncovering billions of dollars of unaccounted wealth hidden from the taxman.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government and opposition yesterday reached tentative deals in the areas of elections and foreign aid as part of a Vatican-backed dialogue process, though the agreements fell far short of initial opposition demands.

Guyana will soon see a corps of wardens operating within the natural resources sector performing such diverse tasks as supporting compliance, enforcing policy and performing emergency rescue and disaster recovery.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Desperate to conceal the corpse of her teenaged daughter’s baby born out of wedlock, a La Brea grandmother hid the body for eight months inside a secret room of a La Brea house, before it was found by police on Wednesday.