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Things in Aurora Village are much livelier than in Aurora Estate.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) yesterday launched an investigation into the illegal flights of two aircraft from the Eugene F Correia International Airport, at Ogle, East Coast Demerara.

Debt-ridden City Hall has approached the government for a bailout after undertaking several Golden Jubilee projects it did not budget for.

A young man of Guyanese parentage died tragically in Tortola, British Virgin Islands around 10:00 hrs yesterday when the speedboat he was in hit rough waters and capsized.

The bleachers at D’Urban Park will not be dismantled as originally intended as government intends to preserve and improve the area and turn it into a facility for public events, President David Granger has said.

Post-mortem examinations were performed yesterday on the two children who were crushed to death on Thursday in Kamarang, Region Seven and they were buried with the village council assisting with funeral expenses.

Revenues from ExxonMobil’s oil find here could be at least four times Guyana’s national budget at current market prices, and a top US Embassy official here has urged government to move swiftly to implement measures to ensure transparency and accountability.

Following a recent outbreak of the yellow fever virus in the southern African country of Angola, the Ministry of Public Health is advising persons desirous of travelling out of Guyana to ensure that their immunization status is up-to-date before leaving the country.

President David Granger will tomorrow address the statutory meeting of the City Council where he is expected to raise a number of issues.

After two years of running to the police in an attempt to get them to accelerate a probe of alleged molestation involving her two-year-old child, a Linden mother is upset that a decision in the matter was made without her being informed by the police, who she accused of misleading her.

More than six months after Dennis Martin of Farm, East Bank Essequibo was beaten to death, his assailants are still on the run and his widow is pleading for them to come forward.

They are ubiquitous in the city, shouting over the din of traffic that they have water for sale.

LONDON/BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel sought yesterday to temper pressure from Paris, Brussels and her own government to force Britain into negotiating a quick divorce from the EU, despite warnings that hesitation will let populism take hold.

Alarmed at the large number of applications it was receiving for licences to operate liquor restaurants, the Board of Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) reached out to the Ministry of Social Protection in a bid to tackle the issue of alcohol consumption and alcoholism because of the adverse effect these have on the country’s social fabric, but received what some have described as a shocking response from Minister Volda Lawrence.

LONDON (Reuters) – Boris Johnson, one of the leaders of the successful “Leave” campaign in Britain’s European Union membership referendum, has won the backing of a key colleague to replace David Cameron as prime minister, a newspaper reported.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Miguel Caballero’s designs are not just chic, they could save your life.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s interim President Michel Temer told local newspapers women should retire earlier than men, explaining why he did not support making a potential minimum retirement age equal for both sexes as his government tackles pension reform.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies will seek to write a happy ending to a promising Tri-Nations campaign when they clash with Australia in Sunday’s final, in a contest that brings together the champions of the Twenty20 and 50-overs World Cups.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados’ Minister of Education Ronald Jones has rapped primary school principals for expensive graduation ceremonies that are unaffordable to some parents and forcing others to dig deep into their pockets.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) says it is willing to work with the government in all of its endeavours but it needs to increase spending in the economy.