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BATON ROUGE, La.,  (Reuters) – A gunman killed three police officers and wounded three others in Louisiana’s capital yesterday, nearly two weeks after the fatal police shooting of a black man there sparked nationwide protests, one of which led to the massacre of five Dallas policemen.

The Ministry of Social Protection will be collaborating with the University of Guyana, UNICEF and the Guyana Association of Professional Social Workers (GAPSW) to host a conference on Standards for Professional Practice from July 20 to 21.

The trial of self-confessed drug trafficker Barry Dataram has been adjourned until next month.

ISTANBUL/ANKARA, (Reuters) – Turkey widened a crackdown on suspected supporters of a failed military coup yesterday, taking the number of people rounded up in the armed forces and judiciary to 6,000, and the government said it was in control of the country and economy.

Through individual government ministries, the National Task Force Commission (NTFC) has already made budgetary proposals for 2017.

ANKARA/BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – It was a strangely 20th century coup, defeated by 21st century technology and people power.

SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – China has extradited its first criminal suspect from Latin America following eight years of negotiations, repatriating an alleged crude soybean oil smuggler from Peru who has been on the run for 18 years, the country’s customs bureau said yesterday.

President David Granger on Saturday evening said that Guyana stands firmly behind France over the July 14, 2016 terror attack in Nice, during the Bastille Day celebrations.

In the July 14th edition of SN under the headline `Activists challenge ministry over fire that killed two children’, it was incorrectly reported that Danuta Radzik is a member of Red Thread.

SAN ANTONIO, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Thousands of Venezuelans streamed into neighboring Colombia yesterday to take advantage of a temporary opening of the border to buy food and medicine unavailable at home in their country’s collapsing economy.

KARACHI/ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – The brother of Qandeel Baloch, whose risqué social media posts both titillated and appalled conservative Pakistan, yesterday admitted to strangling her in a crime that reignited debate about so-called “honour killings” in the South Asian nation.

PPP/C MP Charles Ramson Jnr yesterday made a fresh call for a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) to be conducted into last year’s bungled Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) surveillance operation which left three persons dead and his wife and brother-in-law traumatised.

BATON ROUGE, La.,  (Reuters) – Three police officers were shot to death and three others wounded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana today, in what authorities said was an ambush less than two weeks after a black man was killed by police, sparking nationwide protests.

(Trinidad Guardian) There is a “tremendous shortage” of staff, especially skilled medical staff including both doctors and nurses, at the public health institutions in this country, the Sunday Guardian has learnt.

Saying the process was unfair, Cevons Waste Management has filed a protest with the newly-established Bid Protest Committee (BPC) over the award of the recently announced $221M contract to Puran Brothers Disposal Inc.

With photos by Keno George   It has only been a few days since schools closed for the August holidays, but the children of Buxton, East Coast Demerara have already assumed their rightful places in the niches of their community.

With business owners complaining of a reduction in sales, President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce Inc (GCCI) Vishnu Doerga says the APNU+AFC government should “hold off on new forms of taxation.”

The parents of six-year-old Antonio George, and three-year-old Joshua George who died last week in a fire that raged at the Drop-In Centre on Hadfield Street, have since been granted access to their sons’ remains and death certificates.

The construction company that built the Kato Secondary School says it is being wrongfully blamed for the school’s incompletion and alleged defects, as it met the required contractual obligations for the original sums provided.