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Continuous rainfall in the Matarkai Sub-District of Region One (Barima-Waini) has reduced an already deplorable Matarkai access road to an impassable slush dam posing difficulties to those who traverse the roads in the area.

Like previous years, the 2012 Auditor General’s Report on Region 4 revealed that fuel and lubricant were supplied to unauthorised users and one parliamentarian has urged government to tackle the persistent problem head-on as the police are not doing much.

Vendors occupying the Parliament View mall at Hadfield and Lombard streets yesterday complained bitterly about the conditions under which they have to vend when it rains.

The family of Onika Luke is seeking the public’s assistance in raising $100,000 to pay for a CT scan.

Three youths including a minor were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with sexually assaulting a woman.

Last Friday’s meeting between the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) and the Ministry of Education (MoE) to negotiate a multi-year agreement went “favourably for most of the non-financial issues,” GTU President Mark Lyte said.

Carifesta Avenue will be widened on the northern side and the contractors on the project are hoping that the $180 million improvement works would be finished by the end of this month.

With GBTI registering an after-tax profit of slightly over $2 billion for 2015 in what was described as a challenging environment, the bank’s Chairman Robin Stoby says that government’s fiscal policy has a crucial role to play in boosting economic growth.

The opposition Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday announced that it will hold its 31st Congress in the last quarter of this year.

Reduced rates for serious crimes including gun-related robberies and murders continue to be recorded, the Guyana Police Force said yesterday.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Poor families in the Philippines are pushing their children into performing live sex online for paedophiles around the globe in what one senior UNICEF official called a form of “child slavery”.

Two firms have pledged to rebuild the home of a Linden couple whose house was burnt down last Saturday.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder of Agricola resident Gladstone George, who was shot dead execution-style in April last year, continued yesterday with a traffic cop giving his testimony.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton called for party unity yesterday, suggesting it was time for Bernie Sanders to abandon his hard-fought challenge, as six states hold nominating contests today when she expects to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination.

LIMA (Reuters) – The future of Peru’s presidency hung in the balance as former investment banker Pedro Pablo Kuczynski held a razor-thin lead in Sunday’s election over Keiko Fujimori, daughter of an imprisoned authoritarian leader.

Attorney General Basil Williams is currently in Jamaica where he is updating the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) on Guyana’s compliance with the outstanding recommendations to the anti-money laundering legislation.

Two days after a live grenade was lobbed near the vehicle of Kaieteur News’ publisher, bomb experts have destroyed and disposed of the explosive device and the Guyana Press Association (GPA) and the Private Sector Commission are calling on the police to conduct an in-depth investigation.

KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda’s veteran leader Yoweri Museveni named a new cabinet yesterday that retained his prime minister and ministers in the key energy and finance jobs while giving the education portfolio to his wife.

A passenger of a Route 42 minibus was yesterday arrested after police conducted a search on the vehicle and found a pistol along with several rounds in his possession.

Adam McDonald and Jermaine Bailey, who were apprehended and charged after allegedly committing a brazen robbery on a phone store near police headquarters Eve Leary in October last year, were yesterday freed of the charges.