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A review of projects awarded by the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority has shown that 75% of the works on the current budget are sole-sourced.

Nine volunteers from the Volunteer Support Platform travelled to Barbados yesterday to participate in the Guyana/ Barbados Youth Exchange Programme 2016.

Venezuela has denied that its army shot at Guyana Geology and Mines Com-mission (GGMC) workers last month while they were travelling in this country’s waters but Georgetown remains adamant the incident occurred.

Former Factory Manager of the Rose Hall Sugar Estate Deodat Singh has sued the Guyana Sugar Corporation Limited for allegedly wrongfully dismissing him and for breaching his employment contract.

Sixty-five vendors from Vreed-en-Hoop have agreed to relocate to enable the West Coast Demerara Road Improvement Project, a release from the Ministry of Public Infrastructure said yesterday.

A small group of persons staged a protest outside the Regional Democratic Council compound in Region Six on Thursday, calling for the removal of the Regional Executive Officer (REO) Veerasammy Ramayya and the Tender Board.

The Marcus Brian Bisram Foundation (MBBF) on Thursday held the re-opening ceremony for the newly remodelled traffic department at the Springlands Police Station.

Family members remain hopeful about the health of Orville Valentine, the Sentinel Security officer who was run over on Monday by a Hilux Truck, given a change in his medical condition; they are also concerned at the dearth of information being provided by medical staff.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Thursday accused the Government of flip-flopping on the question of an increase in the tolls for the Demerara Harbour Bridge.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s elections council said yesterday it will begin a process of validating signatures of citizens seeking a recall referendum against President Nicolas Maduro, a small step in the opposition’s effort to remove a deeply unpopular leader.

Family members of Afraz Sattaur and his common-law wife Razena Hassan, who were involved in a collision along the Mahaica, East Coast Demerara roadway on May 6, remain displeased with the lack of progress in the matter.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump offered a message of ethnic harmony yesterday at a Christian evangelical conference as he sought to calm concern about his criticism of a Mexican-American judge.

President David Granger yesterday attended the funeral service of Jules Kranenburg, a former Minister of Public Works and Communications with responsibility for transport under the Desmond Hoyte administration.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Five Indian men were sentenced to life in prison yesterday for raping a Danish tourist in the heart of New Delhi’s tourist district in 2014, in a case that reignited worries about sexual violence against women in India.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Colombia’s government and leftist FARC rebels agreed yesterday to a pilot project to replace illicit crops, mainly coca, as part of negotiations aimed at ending Latin America’s last and longest guerilla war, which is fueled in part by drug profits.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be conducting a Community Clean-up tomorrow at Good Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

LIMA, (Reuters) – Keiko Fujimori conceded defeat yesterday to Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in Peru’s tightest presidential election in decades, but she warned that her rightwing populist party would be a force of opposition during his term.

MUMBAI,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Bollywood star Anil Kapoor today kick-started a campaign to highlight the plight of millions of children in India who are forced into work, adding that he hoped his celebrity status would influence and inspire others to stamp out the practice.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Dressed in Hogwarts robes and waving wands, eager fans got a first glimpse of the next instalment in the Harry Potter saga, giving a new London stage production glowing reviews.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Veteran Scottish rocker Rod Stewart received a knighthood in Queen Elizabeth’s birthday honours list yesterday as a weekend of events was launched to mark the official 90th birthday of Britain’s oldest and longest-reigning monarch.