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Ensuring that historical sites are safeguarded for the benefit of  future generations, the National Trust of Guyana in partnership with World Monuments Fund, has organised the Georgetown International Heritage Conference.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton declared herself the Democratic Party nominee for U.S.

Bandits struck at two businesses in Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice over the weekend carting off cash and other valuables and beating a restaurant owner.

A Sentinel Security officer is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was run over by a Toyota Hilux jeep.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s top prosecutor is seeking the arrests of the Senate leader and other senior ruling party politicians for allegedly trying to obstruct a corruption probe, threatening to undermine President Michel Temer’s interim government, O Globo reported yesterday.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan security forces used tear gas to block hundreds of opposition protesters yesterday in the latest rally to demand a recall referendum to oust socialist President Nicolas Maduro.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Bowing to pressure from fellow Republicans, Donald Trump said yesterday he would no longer talk about a Mexican-American judge after U.S.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s interim president, Jocelerme Privert, said he will stay in office until next year to transfer power to an elected president unless parliament rules otherwise, after the electoral council on Monday scrapped the results of a disputed presidential vote.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Former investment banker Pedro Pablo Kuczynski had a wafer-thin lead yesterday over rival Keiko Fujimori in the latest tally from Peru’s presidential race, with tens of thousands of votes from abroad and in remote jungle villages still to be counted.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican security forces have committed crimes against humanity, with mass disappearances and extrajudicial killings rife during the country’s decade-long drug war, according to a report released by rights groups on Monday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Mexico’s foreign minister mounted a robust defense of her nation’s economic importance to the United States on Monday and condemned anti-migrant rhetoric and a “climate of intolerance” in its neighbor — a thinly-veiled critique of Donald Trump.

 (Reuters) – Paceman Kagiso Rabada led a brilliant South Africa bowling display that lifted the Proteas to a 47-run win over Australia in the triangular one-day international series in Guyana on Tuesday.

CASTRIES, Saint Lucia,  (Reuters) – St. Lucia’s conservative United Workers Party beat the incumbent Labour Party with promises of tax cuts and the resolution of a scandal over killings by the police that have hurt the image of the Caribbean nation, general election results showed on Monday.

Relative to the investigation into the grenade attack at Kaieteur News on Saturday, detectives from the Guyana Police Force (GPF) after reviewing surveillance footage have detained a motor car matching the description and six suspects, the GPF said in a press release today.

(Trinidad Guardian) The owner of a popular weight loss clinic in T&T was detained by police yesterday in connection with a fraud investigation.

City Hall has backtracked on a deal to allow one company to install parking meters in Georgetown and Astrolobe Technology, a firm which had inked a deal with the previous council but was left out under the new arrangement, will now be part of the project but the agreement still has to be signed.

The lifeless body of a miner was early yesterday morning discovered with a suspected stab wound in front of a bar at Mahdia Landing and the police are currently pursuing two suspects.

Almost a month after the Tower Suites opened its doors and it was revealed that there was an  arapaima in a tiny pond at the Main Street hotel, a source from the Wildlife Authority says that the fish should not be kept in such an environment.

A revolver and several spent shells were yesterday handed over to law enforcers in ‘F’ Division following a fight between two men, one of whom has been arrested.

A man, who allegedly made death threats to Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jadgeo and other members of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) on Facebook, was arrested yesterday.