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Town Clerk Royston King said the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) was pushing to have an extension for vendors occupying private land at Lombard and Hadfield streets.

The prime suspect behind the lobbing of a grenade outside the Kaieteur News office more than one month ago has fled the jurisdiction and is believed to be in neighbouring Suriname.

A Guyanese man who was held at the JFK Airport in New York last September with what was later determined to be cocaine in rum has been jailed for 27 months in what the US said was a long-running narcotics importation conspiracy.

Further vocational training has been recommended for 50 students who are leaving the Canje Secondary School without Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) qualifications.

WARSAW/DALLAS (Reuters) – President Barack Obama urged Americans yesterday not to view the United States as being riven into opposing groups, seeking to soothe raw emotions after a former US soldier killed five policemen in Dallas and high-profile police shootings of two black men in Minnesota and Louisiana.

LONDON (Reuters) – Andrea Leadsom, one of two candidates vying to become the next British prime minister, has caused an uproar by suggesting that being a mother means she has a greater stake in the country’s future than her childless rival Theresa May.

The case file in relation to the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing was recently re-sent to the police and recommendations were made for them to conduct further investigations in order to determine the intellectual authors behind the execution.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Gunmen killed 14 people in northeastern Mexico early yesterday in two attacks likely sparked by gang wars in the state of Tamaulipas, the local government said.

A multi-sectoral approach to the myriad problems facing teenagers in Guyana is needed to ensure that they are properly equipped to assume eventual leadership of the country, according to First Lady Sandra Granger.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Isabel Allende, a ruling party senator in Chile and the daughter of deposed ex-president Salvador Allende, said she is considering running for president in next year’s elections, a local newspaper reported on Saturday.

Investigations surrounding the circumstances that led to a mining accident in the Mazaruni, which claimed the life of a Russian geologist, have revealed that the mining company involved failed to notify the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) in a timely manner.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said yesterday it had expelled two US Embassy staff members in June after a similar ‘unfriendly’ move by Washington.

Legal practitioners from around the Caribbean will this week be educated on the ways in which international private law can be used to protect families and business across borders when Attorney General Basil Williams in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) hosts The Hague Convention Conference here from July 13 to 15.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) of Georgetown would be decentralising their operations from mid July 2016.

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi, revered as a “living saint” in the South Asian nation, was buried on the outskirts of Karachi yesterday after a state funeral attended by thousands of people.

TAMPA, FLA (Reuters) – A federal grand jury indicted US Representative Corrine Brown of Florida and her chief of staff on fraud charges and other crimes, accusing them of funnelling money for a bogus education charity to personal use, US prosecutors said on Friday.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba is drastically cutting electricity, imports and investment, as well as reducing fuel consumption by 28 per cent through the end of the year, its economy minister said on Friday in a closed-door speech to the National Assembly published by official media yesterday.

(Reuters Health) – Many people in a recent study said they’d tried to find out what chemicals are in tobacco products or smoke, but most were not familiar with components other than nicotine.

SEOUL (Reuters) – A North Korean ballistic missile fired from a submarine yesterday likely failed in the early stage of flight, the South’s military said.

(Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities have arrested a representative of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca at the center of the Panama Papers scandal on accusations of seeking clients interested in investing “illicit funds”, state prosecutors said.