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The Guyana Postal and Telecommunication Workers’ Union  (PTWU) laid out a litany of complaints about GTT to the Labour Department on July 1 but is still waiting for a meeting to discuss the matters.

The Mayor and City Council has given Edward B Beharry and Company Limited the go ahead to begin construction at sites intended to house its Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) franchises in Georgetown.

A woman was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with attempting to murder the father of her child.

The Ministry of Public Security is seeking technical advice on the removal of vagrants who continue to squat around Parliament building.

A gold miner was charged with exporting gold without a licence after being held while trying to leave the country with a gold chain that weighed over 15 ounces via the Ogle International Airport.

Former New York State Senator John Sampson, who was convicted last year for obstructing justice and lying to federal investigators due largely to the testimony of US-based Guyanese businessman Ed Ahmad, is seeking to have his conviction overturned but federal prosecutors are vigorously fighting his bid.

The post-mortem examination on veteran Government engineer Walter Willis who died on Monday evening at the St.

Rayon Nurse, the former Marketing and Distribution Incorporated salesman who was charged in 2014 with embezzling over $8M from three of the company’s customers, was yesterday handed a suspended sentence for the crime.

The city police should desist from seizing vendors’ perishables and focus more on keeping the minibus operators at the Stabroek Market parks in line, according to Mayor Patricia Chase-Green.

Five tenders including one from a Trinidadian company were opened yesterday for the drilling of wells in Sophia and at Diamond, East Bank Demerara.

The inter-ministerial taskforce against human trafficking remained inactive up to eight months after the new government was voted into office last year, according to the US State Department’s 2016 Trafficking in Persons Report, which also said that while the government drafted an action plan to combat trafficking, it did not finalise it.

Poor drainage and non-functional pumps at Land of Plenty and Hampton Court, along the Essequibo Coast, have resulted in residents of the two villages enduring flooding woes.

Local testing for the mosquito-borne chikungunya, dengue and zika in the public health sector is expected to begin shortly.

City councillors on Monday took a decision to review the implemented containers fee that businesses are now being charged.

The hunt for the suspect in the fatal beating of mechanic Yugeshwar Shiwcharan ended yesterday after he turned himself over to the police.

The four persons who were arrested during a raid by police last Thursday at Alpha International Hotel, Ogle, East Coast Demerara, during which one person died, have been released but investigations are continuing into the matter.

Prakash Seegobin, the businessman who was shot in his home by bandits on Monday night, remains hospitalised.

The western half of the Demerara Harbour Bridge is to undergo substantial maintenance work in the third quarter of 2016.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING, (Reuters) – An international tribunal’s ruling denying China’s claims in the South China Sea will “intensify conflict and even confrontation,” Beijing’s ambassador to the United States said yesterday.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H., (Reuters) – Democrat Bernie Sanders endorsed former rival Hillary Clinton for president in a display of party unity yesterday, describing her as the best candidate to fix the United States’ problems and beat Republican Donald Trump in the Nov.