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Five Venezuelan women who were yesterday charged with entering Guyana illegally were fined and deported to their country.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure’s Special Projects Unit, in collaboration with the Mayor and City Council’s Engineer’s Department completed rehabilitation works on Louisa Row on Tuesday.

A post-mortem examination performed on the remains of Rampersaud Rattan, who was stabbed on Monday evening, revealed that he died as a result of a puncture to the heart.

In an effort to make the ‘awareness’ work of physically challenged employees of the National Commission for Disability (NCD) easier, Gaico Construction & General Services Inc.

A 44-year-old man and   a teenager yesterday denied being involved in breaking into a home at Eteringbang and stealing a quantity of items and were placed on substantial bail by a city magistrate.

When the allegation was put to him that he stole from the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL), former director Carvil Duncan chose to remain silent, the arresting officer on Tuesday testified.

A man, accused of stealing a gold band, was remanded to prison on Tuesday after a court heard that he had a similar charged pending against him.

The Better Hope to Sparendaam sea shore has seen an increase of natural mangrove regeneration.

Several Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), community groups and individuals on Tuesday participated in an information session on the Direct Aid Programme (DAP), facilitated by the Australian High Commission stationed in Trinidad.

The Guyana Foundation Sunrise Centre recently benefitted from a donation from the Guyana Bank for Trade & Industry Ltd (GBTI) to complete the outfitting of the Centre’s counselling room.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Wednesday accused Republican opponent Donald Trump of inciting violence with his call for gun rights activists to stop her from nominating liberal U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Baltimore officials yesterday pledged to carry out sweeping police department reforms after a scathing U.S.

The Belize Supreme Court yesterday overturned the country’s sodomy law with Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin’s landmark ruling that Section 53 of the Criminal Code which criminalises consenting intercourse between adults of the same sex contravenes the right granted by the Belize Constitution, according to the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC).

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Senate voted overwhelmingly yesterday to indict President Dilma Rousseff on charges of breaking budget laws and to begin an impeachment trial that is expected to oust her from office and end 13 years of rule by the Workers Party.

TRIPOLI,  (Reuters) – Libyan forces battling to oust Islamic State from Sirte yesterday captured a large convention hall complex in the city centre, seizing a symbolic base where militants once held meetings and flew their black jihadist flag.

PACARAIMA, Brazil,  (Reuters) – Government employee Jose Lara this month used some vacation days to take a long scenic bus ride through the verdant plateaus and sweeping savannas of southern Venezuela, but the trip was anything but a holiday.

Last evening about 1840h ranks of the Police Narcotics Branch intercepted a cargo shipment of thirty five boxes of seafood of which eight contained a total of 88.2 kilos of cocaine.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Senate voted early today to indict President Dilma Rousseff on charges of breaking budget laws and put her on trial in an impeachment process that has stalled Brazilian politics since January.

Gold lifted an otherwise dismal half-year performance by the economy, resulting in 2 percent economic growth for the first part of the year as El Nino hit the sugar and rice sectors hard and wholesale and retail trade plunged.

The village of Hope, East Coast Demerara was rocked yesterday after the body of a 14-year-old girl was pulled out of the Hope Canal, one day after she went missing.