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As the suspension of scrap metal exports continues, dozens of dealers yesterday staged a picket outside of the Ministry of Business for the reopening of the trade, while claiming that an estimated 1,500 workers were affected.

Participants at the judicial colloquium on the abolition of the death penalty, which was held here last month, recommended that the government formalise the de facto moratorium of the death penalty.

Government on Thursday used its parliamentary majority to vote down an opposition motion calling for greater measures to address suicide, including decriminalisation, with its speakers arguing that the manner in which it was framed both politicised and trivialised the problem.

Four men are now in custody after a gang broke into a Seawell, East Coast Berbice home yesterday morning and proceeded to brutalise and rob a family, which has been left traumatised.

The fisherman of Parika, East Bank Essequibo, who chopped his former partner and her mother at Greenwich Park on Wednesday night and then ingested poison, succumbed yesterday morning.

More than two weeks after the body of James Stuart was found at La Grange, West Bank Demerara with a wound to the head, a sixteen-year-old boy was on Wednesday charged with his murder.

A man was yesterday set $1 million bail after he denied a charge that he stole over $9.7 million in raw gold and diesel.

The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs yesterday launched its list of activities for this year’s Indigenous Heritage month celebrations, under the theme ‘Our Culture, Earth’s Future – Save the Environment; Live the Indigenous Way.’

Universal Games Guyana, the newest addition to the attractions at the Giftland Mall, opened to the public on Wednesday, with the offer of one-of-a-kind virtual reality machines at affordable rates.

Fun Park Rentals will be hosting the first local ‘Playday’ event later this month to celebrate children’s play.

GREEN BAY, Wisconsin/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican Donald Trump took steps to steer his White House campaign back into favour with his party establishment yesterday by endorsing U.S.

Murder accused Orpheus Johnson was yesterday committed to stand trial for the killing of Gladstone George, who was shot to death execution-style aboard a minibus in full view of several passengers at Agricola, East Bank Demerara last year.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – The committee set up to investigate lack of transparency in Panama’s financial system itself lacks transparency, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz told Reuters yesterday after resigning from the “Panama Papers” commission.

A Soesdyke man was yesterday remanded to prison on a murder charge.

The businesses on the ground floor of the four-storey building at Avenue of the Republic and America Street, which was ravaged by fire on Thursday, have resumed operations, while the investigation of what caused the blaze continues.

(Trinidad Guardian) Determined not to let 14 years of marriage go down the drain, Ardia Yearwood-Marchan and Peter Marchan were trying to make life work.

HARARE, (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s army commander said yesterday that his soldiers will deal with threats from activists using social media to mobilise anti-government protests, the first time the military has commented on the demonstrations.

(Trinidad Express) Forensic pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov resumed performing autopsies on Thursday after he was given the assurance some of his demands will be met.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s ruling party was in a close race early yesterday in two major cities after losing one other key municipality in its worst electoral performance since the end of apartheid.

As investigators continue to probe the murder of taxi driver Orin David, the High Court yesterday granted the police more time to detain the suspect who was arrested hours after the attack.