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The Office of the Presidential Advisor on Youth Empowerment, in collaboration with the Department of Culture, Youth and Sport, concluded its Sixth Youth Leadership Training Programme last week.

Students of the Freeburg Secondary School are the recipients of a newly refurbished library space and reading room, thanks to Nulli Secundus, a youth group stemming from the Wortmanville Assemblies of God Church.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States broke off talks with Russia yesterday on implementing a ceasefire agreement in Syria and accused Moscow of not living up to its commitments under the Septem-ber 9 deal to halt fighting and ensure aid reached besieged communities.

Acting Police Commissioner David Ramnarine said last Friday that the police investigation into the 2015 gunning down of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing is still very much alive.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US officials are doing their best to ignore Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s hostile rhetoric and taking comfort in the fact that he has yet to translate his words into less military cooperation.

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani told his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Maduro in a phone call that it was essential for oil producing countries to take a decision to raise the price of oil and stabilise the market, Iranian state news agency IRNA said.

With the increased flow of information between the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and local law enforcement agencies, US Ambassador to Guyana Perry Holloway says he expects there will be “a lot more good news.”

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s government and Marxist guerrillas scrambled yesterday to revive a plan to end their 52-year war after voters rejected the hard-negotiated deal as too lenient on the rebels in a shock referendum result that plunged the nation into uncertainty.

BRUSSELS/KABUL (Reuters) – World powers will convene on Brussels today to raise billions more dollars for Afghanistan to keep the country running until 2020, but the bigger prize would be a peace deal after almost four decades of conflict.

Despite a lawyer’s desperate plea for bail, her client was remanded to prison on a charge of trafficking over 300 grammes of weed in the interior.

ROME (Reuters) – About 6,055 migrants were rescued yesterday as they tried to reach Europe on about 40 boats, one of the highest numbers in a single day, Italy’s coast guard said.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s municipal elections showed that new parties have failed to capitalize on voters’ disenchantment with a corruption-tainted political establishment, making it unlikely an outsider will win the 2018 presidential poll.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Veteran West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo on Monday revealed that the West Indies Cricket Board’s decision to axe “trusted” head coach Phil Simmons on the day of the squad’s departure for Dubai, had left the Caribbean side demoralized for the ongoing limited overs tour against Pakistan.

LES CAYES, Haiti, (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew bore down on Haiti today where towns and villages braced for “catastrophic” floods and mudslides that forecasters fear will be triggered by 140 mile-per-hour (220 kph) winds and up to 3 feet of rain over its denuded hills.

Agriculture Minister Noel Holder today accepted a proposal to commence discussions for an all-weather road from #58/59 Villages to Canje Creek, a release from the Ministry of Agriculture said.

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran and former Attorney General Anil Nandlall yesterday skewered the award of a school feeding juice contract to Surinamese company, Rudisa following a report in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek that mandatory tests were not done by the food and drug department.

A  Professional Guard Service (PGS)  guard was shot and two others grazed by bullets after the armoured vehicle they were in came under a hail of gunfire, shortly before midnight, at Demerara Bank’s Camp Street and South Road branch.

President David Granger says drug trafficking is a key progenitor of crime and he pledged to bring it to an end.

The Government has issued an order to acquire the east quarter of Lot 92 Middle and Carmichael streets under The Acquisition of Lands for Public Purposes Act.

Students of the University of Guyana will be taking to the picket line today in protest at the recently announced  5% increase in tuition fees.