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With the deadline approaching for the vendors plying their trade at Lombard and Hadfield streets, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is still working to find a permanent location for them.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Thousands of elderly people in Latin America, Spain, and elsewhere who are dependent on a Venezuelan state pension have been forced to find other ways to survive after payments stopped last year, some of those affected told Reuters.

BEIJING (Reuters) – A collection of documents from Zhao Ziyang, who was China’s reformist Communist Party chief until he was toppled in 1989 for opposing the Tiananmen crackdown, has been smuggled out of the country and will be published in Hong Kong this month, according to a publishing house that is turning them into a book.

Two Corentyne fishermen were yesterday placed on $50,000 bail each, when they appeared at the Springlands Magistrate Court to answer to a charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto apologized yesterday for a damaging conflict-of-interest row in 2014 surrounding his wife’s purchase of a luxury home from a government contractor.

CLEVELAND (Reuters) – The normally straight-laced Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) tried humour to win over Republicans at their national convention yesterday, handing out packets of a satirical medicine called “Islamophobin,” a treatment for Islamophobia.

The revamping of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is a matter for the Board of Directors of the authority and is meant to make the agency’s services more effective, Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan said.

The Committee of Appointments has recommended Matthew Edward Hugh Langevine for the position of Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit after the top candidate for the position was barred following a police report.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) says it is opposed to what it said is the growing militarisation of the State and Government apparatus in Guyana.

(Trinidad Guardian) Reputed gang leader and criminal mastermind Selwyn “Robocop” Alexis was assassinated at his Enterprise, Chaguanas business yesterday.

In an effort to allay fears it is losing its identity within the APNU+AFC coalition government, Alliance for Change (AFC) representatives were on Saturday urged by its executive to make themselves relevant and to be vocal on issues of national importance, particularly at the local government level.

The construction of an all-weather road in the Wales backlands that would enable private  farmers to transport cane to the Uitvlugt estate following the planned closure of cultivation at Wales, would be out for tender in the next two weeks.

Director of National Parking Systems and Smart City Solutions (SCS), Ifa Kamau Cush yesterday confirmed to Stabroek News that the parking meter contract signed between his company and the Georgetown Municipality is for 49 years.

The body of a man was found in La Grange early yesterday morning with a wound to his head and his relatives say they are convinced he was murdered.

The government is still awaiting a report from the Health Ministry on investigations into claims that contractor Brian Tiwarie was awarded all of the $800M in steel that was originally assigned to the now frozen specialty hospital project, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said Thursday.

Two persons are in custody assisting with the investigation of Saturday’s armed robbery on a La Jalousie, West Coast Demerara store that saw four bandits assault the owners and customers before carting off valuables.

Khirool Noorajhan, the sister of the Pomeroon boat collision victim whose death is now being treated as murder, says that she is living in fear after threats were made to her life for reportedly being too vocal.

The Mayor and City Council’s Legal Affairs Committee will be meeting today to discuss the way forward as it relates to the recently implemented container fees, according to a City Hall source.

Region Seven Chairman Gordon Bradford says he will not judge new Regional Executive Officer Roderick Edinboro based on comments about his performance in the Region Five administration, from where he was transferred.

A neighbour of the Guyanese-born American citizen who was found dead in her Maryland apartment last Friday has been charged with robbery and first degree murder.