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The officials of the Lethem Municipality are not to be blamed for the current economic instability facing businesses in the township, Mayor Carlton Beckles says.

After 21 years on the run, a murder suspect was arrested by police on Saturday.

Dhanraj Raghubir, the computer technician accused of forging a United States Embassy appointment letter, was yesterday cleared of the charges for want of prosecution.

Despite his pleas for bail, a young father is now a remanded prisoner on gun and ammunition charges.

The police’s fatal shooting of Nigel Joseph during a shootout last Thursday at the Alpha International Hotel, at Ogle, East Coast Demerara, is being investigated by the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum.

With the promise of a visit by a technical team attached to the Ministry of Communities, aimed at addressing the deplorable state of the Matarkai Road, residents of Port Kaituma in the North West District are hoping that a viable solution can be reached to rectify their situation.

A Bartica youth was yesterday denied bail after police say he was found with more than 100 grammes of cannabis at his home.

LONDON (Reuters) – Interior minister Theresa May will become Britain’s prime minister tomorrow, with the task of steering its withdrawal from the European Union, after rival Andrea Leadsom abruptly terminated her disastrous leadership campaign.

A Quamina Street woman was arrested just before midday yesterday and is currently in police custody after she was caught attempting to post rice which consisted of a quantity of cannabis.

ABOARD THE USS NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps yesterday dispatched five military vessels to monitor a US warship hosting one of America’s top generals on a day trip through the Strait of Hormuz, coming as close as 500 yards (metres).

Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) James Singh, while elated about yesterday’s public acknowledgement of the part the unit and investigators from the Guyana Police Force played in a major drug conviction in the United Kingdom (UK), said it is only one example of the ongoing collaboration between the Governments of Guyana and the UK.

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said yesterday it had told the United States it will cut the only channel of communication between them, at the United Nations in New York, after Washington blacklisted leader Kim Jong Un last week for human rights abuses.

The commencement of the trial of the former public service minister Dr Jennifer Westford and ex-ministry personnel officer Margaret Cummings, on charges of forgery and the attempted larceny of state vehicles, has been delayed pending a decision by the High Court.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday that Citibank NA, planned to shut his government’s foreign currency accounts within a month, denouncing the move by one of its main foreign financial intermediaries as part of a “blockade.”

A Mabaruma man, said to be a father of ten, was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday after telling a city court that he was going to smoke the cannabis police had found in his possession.

After being out of use for more than two years due to vandalism, the Trafalgar Pump Station is expected to be working again before the next rainy season.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican chairmen of two US House of Representatives committees yesterday asked the Justice Department to launch an investigation into whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton committed perjury during testimony to Congress about her use of a private email server.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is concerned about the delay with respect to the hearing of the elections petition filed by one of its parliamentarians, challenging the outcome of the 2015 general and regional elections.

(Jamaica Observer) – As Jamaica continues to struggle with the rising incidence of serious crimes among young people, Commonwealth Secretary-General Baroness Patricia Scotland argues that the problem is not unique to the island and that the best way to address the situation is to reduce the exposure of children to abusive circumstances.

(Reuters) – New mobile game Pokemon Go has become an overnight sensation with US fans but also played a role in armed robberies in Missouri, the discovery of a body in Wyoming and minor injuries to fans distracted by the app, officials and news media reported yesterday.