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GENEVA, (Reuters) – Paraguay led nearly 30 countries yesterday in calling at the United Nations for Venezuela to engage in a national dialogue with the opposition to preserve peace and security, and to release political prisoners.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The Zika virus causing an epidemic in Brazil and spreading through the Americas can infect and alter cells in the human nervous system that are crucial for formation of bones and cartilage in the skull, a study found yesterday.

COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – Denmark’s government said yesterday it had paid some $900,000 for access to Panama Papers documents to help it identify hundreds of suspected Danish tax cheats.

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates,  CMC – On the heels of an embarrassing whitewash in the preceding Twenty20 series, West Indies’ three-match One-Day International series against Pakistan will take on new value when it bowls off here Friday.

The Ministry of Education today said that Professor Doris Rogers passed away on September 22, 2016.

Police have arrested an Annandale man who allegedly fatally stabbed his son during an altercation last night.

(Barbados Nation) It’s now safe to go outside. Following an almost 48-hour shutdown of Barbados, the Department of Emergency Management (DEM) this morning gave the all-clear because of Tropical Storm Matthew.

NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – India said today it had conducted “surgical strikes” on suspected militants preparing to infiltrate from Pakistan-ruled Kashmir, making its first direct military response to an attack on an army base it blames on Pakistan.

The newly established Bid Protest Committee (BPC) now has three cases to deliberate on as Guyana Beverages Inc (GBI), has joined Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) in protesting the award for the supply of juices to the Ministry of Education’s distribution programme.

Law enforcement authorities were yesterday mum on the embarrassing escape of Barry Dataram several days before he was convicted of trafficking following a major cocaine haul.

The second accused in the murder of Gafoor’s manager Terry Lackhan was yesterday remanded to prison after he was jointly charged with the first accused David Outar.

Two weeks after female students of the Santa Rosa Secondary School dormitory were subjected to a strip search over missing money, allegedly at the hands of the School’s Welfare Officer and the Matron of the dorms, parents are expected to meet with officials of the Ministry of Education on Saturday to discuss the incident.

The unemployment rate in Guyana as per the 2012 Population and Housing Census has been placed at 12.5 per cent, according to Compendium 3 of the census’s findings, dealing with economic activity, which was released yesterday.

Determined to have an asphalt plant relocated, residents of Block 1 Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo were successful in getting officials from the Environ-mental Protection Agency (EPA) and the plant to visit them on Tuesday.

A day after the Guyana Police Force issued a wanted bulletin for the second suspect in connection with the murder of Cummings Lodge vendor, Anita Mohan, the man surrendered to the police.

A Cuban national was yesterday morning shot in her right hand after she was attacked and robbed by two bandits on Regent Street, Georgetown.

A US$226,000 grant programme  via the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) to assist the  music, art, craft and agro processing industries to maximize their potential will kick off on October 1st and run for three years.

The preliminary inquiry into the charges against three men, accused of the Kaieteur News grenade attack continued yesterday with the police officer who detonated the live grenade giving evidence.

Bids were opened on Tuesday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for rehabilitation and expansion works at the Guyana Water Inc’s Shelter Belt.

A date was set yesterday for the trial of Ishwar Heeralall, who was charged with chopping his estranged wife at La Penitence Market in July.