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Five persons have been held by police after an early morning raid uncovered guns and a quantity of ganja at a nightspot in West Ruimveldt yesterday.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday announced the creation of peace prize in honour of late socialist leader Hugo Chavez, and said he was awarding it to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A security advisor from the United Kingdom will be here next month to assist with security reforms, the Ministry of the Presidency says.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday grappled with a new bombshell after The Washington Post published a 2005 conversation in which Trump recounted in vulgar terms how he tried to have sex with an unnamed married woman.

    Chairman of the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) Board of Directors Nigel Hinds has resigned from the post, while saying that he could not perform in the best interest of the company as a “rubber stamp.”

CHANTAL, Haiti, (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew’s trail of destruction in Haiti stunned those viewing the aftermath on Friday, with the number of dead soaring to 842, tens of thousands made homeless and crops destroyed in the impoverished Caribbean nation’s breadbasket region.

OSLO/BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to end a 52-year-old war with Marxist rebels, a surprise choice and a show of support after Colombians rejected a peace accord last Sunday.

Linden’s Town Clerk has been directed to go on administrative leave yesterday, pending the completion of an inquiry into her conduct.

A 49-year-old Berbice man was yesterday charged with raping an eight-year-old primary school student.

Following talks between GuySuCo and the Guyana Agricultural & General Workers’ Union (GAWU), cane harvesters of the Rose Hall Estate, who were on strike for six days, have returned to work.

Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Barton Scotland and Senior Counsel Rex McKay were yesterday bestowed with the Order of Roraima, Guyana’s second highest national award, while 84 other national awardees received honours in a ceremony held at the National Cultural Centre.

Major renovations slated for the Ministry of the Presidency are on hold pending a decision to relocate some offices to the National Trust building, located next to State House, on Carmichael Street “There has been no decision yet on the National Trust but as soon a decision is made in that regard, certainly, you will know,” Minister of State Joseph Harmon said yesterday, when asked by Stabroek News for an update on government’s decision to move to the building.

The City Constabulary will be recommending that vending be discontinued under the Stabroek Market clock, following the discovery of a rifle there, according to Chief Constable Andrew Foo.

Government is seeking international assistance to improve the country’s ability to detect aircraft which enter its airspace illegally, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said yesterday.

A 24-year-old man is now in police custody after he was found with two illegal guns and ammunition.

The building that housed the Learning Resource Centre (LRC) at the University of Guyana’s Turkeyen Campus is being repurposed as office space for the university’s Vice-Chancellor and his Cabinet.

Police on the West Coast of Demerara are investigating the discovery of a body that was found on the foreshore at Hague.

Citizens who traverse the Demerara Harbour Bridge will see some relief of the morning congestion by the end of the month as the company announced that it will restart night retractions.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with stealing raw gold from miners in the interior.

Plans for a brand new maternity unit for the New Amsterdam Hospital are included in the health budget estimate of $2.1 billion for 2017 which has already been prepared and submitted, according to Director of Public Health Services Region Six, Jevaughn Stephen.