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Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Guyana National Newspapers Limited Jean La Rose has resigned with effect from October 1, citing conflicts with time for community and human rights work.

The commencement of the trial of former public service minister Dr Jennifer Westford and ex-ministry personnel officer Margaret Cummings, who are charged with forgery and the attempted larceny of state vehicles, has been delayed until next year as a decision on the case in the High Court is being awaited.

Kitty Market is scheduled to be reopened on November 1, Town Clerk Royston King told city councillors yesterday.

A gold miner was on Sunday evening attacked and robbed at gunpoint of 30 ozs of raw gold and the police are currently on the hunt for three suspects.

United States Ambassador to Guyana Perry Holloway is on the cusp of securing the funds necessary for the restoration of the historic Stabroek Market Clock.

The two suspects who were arrested last Friday over the murder of 76-year-old David Ramkissoon are to be charged today and the police are looking for a third person they have implicated.

The Mayor and City Council will be seeking support from central government to relocate and house occupants living in ruinous buildings that are listed to be torn down.

The family of the teen who died last week Sunday after a worksite accident in Linden, is pleading with the authorities for justice, claiming that it was negligence on behalf of some of the workers Ramish Rajbally, 19, of Blueberry Hill, Wismar, Linden, was working at a sawmill last week Friday, when he reportedly fell off a log truck.

The police have issued a wanted bulletin for Damion Hopkinson for questioning in connection with the murder of Anita Mohan which occurred on September 4, at Fifth Street, Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara.

An accused cocaine mule was yesterday sentenced to four years in jail, although she was not present for the ruling.

A young Skeldon Estate electrician died on Saturday evening in a road accident at Springlands.

A decision in the trial of former health minister Dr Bheri Ramsaran, who is charged with using insulting language to women’s rights activist Sherlina Nageer, has once again been deferred after his legal team petitioned the Court of Appeal for a temporary stay order, pending an appeal of a failed bid to have the case thrown out.

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian shares recovered from an early bout of nerves while the Mexican peso surged today as investors awarded the first US presidential debate to Democrat Hillary Clinton over Republican Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The collapse of the latest Syria ceasefire has heightened the possibility that Gulf states might arm Syrian rebels with shoulder-fired missiles to defend themselves against Syrian and Russian warplanes, US officials said yesterday.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian police yesterday arrested Antonio Palocci, a powerful former finance minister and presidential chief of staff in recent Workers Party (PT) governments, as a sweeping anti-corruption probe hit even harder at the left-leaning party.

CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) – US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday, the first formal meeting between the two since Kerry became the top US diplomat.

AMSTERDAM/SYDNEY (Reuters) – The Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague has said it will oversee a compulsory conciliation between East Timor and Australia on their maritime boundary, rejecting Australian objections.

CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) – Colombia’s center-right government and the Marxist FARC rebel group signed a peace deal yesterday to end a half-century war that killed a quarter of a million people and once took the Andean country to the brink of collapse.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday it had sanctioned a Chinese industrial machinery and equipment wholesaler, a new step in tightening the financial noose around North Korea’s nuclear programme after its fifth nuclear test this month.

US network CNN says a poll it did after the first presidential debate found that 62% thought that Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton won while 27% thought Republican candidate Donald Trump won.