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The Guyana Police Force (GPF) today said that persons who are caught selling or found in possession of firecrackers will be prosecuted.

A policeman is in hospital and another has been treated and sent away after they intervened in an altercation between a female colleague and an intoxicated patron outside a night club in Lethem during the early hours of this morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) An alcohol-fuelled dispute reportedly over politics turned deadly yesterday morning when a man was attacked and stabbed twice with a garden fork allegedly by his best friend in Preysal Village, Couva.

The United States has given a commitment to assist Guyana with the surveillance of its porous borders to help reduce the entrance of drugs and small arms into the country, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan said.

Developed, yet quaint, Gangaram village is nestled between Betsy Ground and New Forest in East Canje, Berbice.

Up to press time this morning firefighters were battling to contain a fire at a Cummings street building which houses Ram’s Pharmacy and several other small businesses.

Even as a tripartite committee meets to work out the details of City Hall’s container tax, earnings from the interim $5,000 fee have amounted to $12 million for one month.

The second victim in Friday evening’s fatal crash along the Linden-Soesdyke Highway, has been identified as Royston Holder, though his relatives were up to yesterday afternoon still to formally confirm this.

A West Coast Demerara resident who is accused of raping a mother of four was yesterday morning arrested by the police and is likely to be charged soon.

Flaws in the design for the Brickdam lock-up, which would have rendered it airless, have forced government to set aside money for remedial works, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan has said.

On the heels of a recent estimation that Guyana would have lost over half a billion dollars to Trinidad and Tobago to date because of its lack of onshore oil and gas services, Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman says government is swiftly building capacity to ensure that it can compete.

Government is set to soon commence engagement with Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo for the selection of a new Ombudsman, following the death of Justice Winston Moore last month.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla/GOLDEN, Colo (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton yesterday challenged FBI Director James Comey to provide a fuller explanation of investigative steps he is taking related to her use of a private email server, as the Democratic presidential candidate accused him of “deeply troubling” behaviour 10 days before the US elections.

The Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC), which will be closed for 18 months to facilitate repairs, generated $60 million in revenue from rental during 2015.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union and Canada will sign a free trade agreement today that aims to boost jobs and growth after weeks of uncertainty and opposition in part of EU member Belgium that had threatened to scupper the entire deal.

Consultations are currently being conducted to inform a feasibility study which may see a School of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation (SEBI) at the University of Guyana (UG) offering classes as early as next August.

(Reuters) – Native American leaders vowed yesterday to protest through the winter against a North Dakota oil pipeline they say threatens water resources and sacred lands and are weighing lawsuits over police treatment of arrested protesters.

Acting Police Commissioner David Ramnarine recently said that the police force’s statistics show with the exception of ‘D’ Division, gun robberies are on the decrease, contrary to public fears of an increase.

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzania’s president yesterday ordered the security forces to go after top criminals financing organised networks behind elephant poaching, saying no one was “untouchable”.

CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) – Venezuela’s fast-escalating political crisis and Colombia’s stuttering peace process dominated discussions at the Ibero-American Summit yesterday, despite an official agenda about youth, entrepreneurship and education.