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Chief Executive Officer of the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) Frederick Flatts has confirmed that the ongoing rehabilitation of two electric drainage pumps at Trafalgar, West Coast Berbice, was sole sourced and he said that recent severe flooding in the area forced the decision.

The prime suspect in the murder of the 14-year-old Malika Hamilton, was caught by ranks of the Guyana Police force, hiding in a barrel in the Ann’s Grove cemetery.

There are now 42 confirmed cases of the Zika virus in Guyana.

In documenting failures of state officials in wake of the fatal fire at the Drop-in Centre, the recently-concluded Commission of Inquiry (CoI) found that they failed to hire competent and qualified staff.

Vendors from Lethem and the savannahs now have access to the recently rehabilitated market and vending tarmac, Mayor Carlton Beckles has said.

Noting that Guyana’s “horrifying” road fatality rate is the highest in the Caribbean, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan is calling on drivers and pedestrians to be more responsible in their use of the roadways.

Two suspects are likely to face charges today at a city court for the murder of Triumph teen Daveanand Sanichar.

A police constable was yesterday granted $75,000 bail after she denied a charge that she stole a smartphone.

A Guyana Police Force recruit with sticky fingers narrowly escaped a prison sentence yesterday after he was fined for stealing a cell phone.

The Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) was among five local institutions conferred with Baby-Friendly Hospital status yesterday.

A man was yesterday sentenced to three years in prison by Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Anna Regina Magistrate’s Court for the possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

Businesses are becoming more responsive to the initiative to erect bus sheds in the city, according to Kwame Mentore, Director of Pyramid Sheds.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US State Department said yesterday it released $400 million in cash to Iran under a tribunal settlement only once it was assured that American prisoners had been freed and had boarded a plane.

The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) has announced that effective September 1, all post offices will be open for business from 07:00 hrs to 15:00 hrs, Monday to Friday.

(Reuters) – Mexican police arbitrarily executed nearly two dozen suspected gang members on a ranch last year, the government’s National Human Rights Commission said yesterday, one of the worst abuses by security forces in a decade of grisly drug violence.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti said on Wednesday it would spend $55 million on a new election after the results of the last vote were scrapped, with most of the money to be drawn from the poor Caribbean nation’s own coffers as foreign donors are reluctant to pay again.

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A spike in the forced recruitment of child soldiers in South Sudan could be imminent, the United Nations’ children’s agency said today, amid fears that the world’s youngest nation is on the brink of renewed civil war.

A five-member team is representing Guyana at the first Global Workshop on Oil Spill Response Planning in New Orleans.

CARACAS (Reuters) –  Venezuelan police crushed and chopped up nearly 2,000 shotguns and pistols in a Caracas city square on Wednesday, as the new interior minister relaunched a long-stalled gun control campaign in one of the world’s most crime-ridden countries.

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Lawyers seeking compensation for Haitians killed or sickened by cholera that they blame on United Nations peacekeepers said the UN’s admission on Thursday of its possible involvement in the outbreak was a breakthrough in their legal battle.