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As Corriverton struggles with a garbage disposal crisis, the Mayor and Town Council (M&TC) has temporarily taken over the collection of solid waste from the private contractors now responsible for providing the service.

Police last evening were looking for a man who shot at two reporters who chased him through several city streets after witnessing him robbing a US citizen at gunpoint.

The man wanted for fatally shooting 16-year-old Shemel Mercurius as her terrified three-year-old nephew looked on, turned himself into police at a Brooklyn Police Station on Thursday and has since been charged.

Over 200 youth from schools across the country yesterday participated in the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment’s National Youth Environment Forum, held in commemoration of  World Environment Day 2016 (WED) which is being observed tomorrow under the localized theme – ‘Fight against illegal trade of Wildlife.’

A man was stabbed to death just after midnight yesterday along the Plaisance Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara (ECD), following an argument with another man.

Two youths accused of a string of robberies were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with various felonies, ranging from armed robbery to gun and ammunition possession.

A third man was yesterday charged with the murder of Crabwood Creek resident Shameer ‘Kazak’ Ally, who was found dead in his house last October when police went to arrest him.

Police are searching for five men who broke and entered the M&M Snackette at Peters Hall, East Bank Demerara and escaped with millions after they tied up two guards and two construction workers early on Wednesday morning.

A North West District (NWD) pensioner drowned on Thursday as he was making his way home from Kumaka.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro’s legal team lodged a formal complaint in Venezuela’s Supreme Court yesterday against the National Assembly’s opposition leaders for allegedly “usurping” his role in international affairs.

The original plans submitted by Edward B Beharry and Company Limited for building works at two city sites intended for its Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) franchise were not in order, according to Town Clerk Royston King, who says the company went ahead with alterations at one of the locations without the required permission.

Former Minister of Public Works Jules “Dickie” Kranenburg has died. Kranenburg, who had served as the minister from 1986 to 1992 under the former PNC government, died on May 30.

ACCRA,  (Reuters) – Now a court in Senegal has convicted Chad’s former dictator of crimes against humanity to the applause of global justice advocates, could a pan-African court try a sitting African leader who violates human rights?

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemala’s attorney general accused ex-president Otto Perez yesterday of negotiating hundreds of bribes for public contracts, and ordered at least 50 people arrested for participating in the massive corruption scheme.

Ice cream cakes have been added to Marble Slab Creamery’s list of delicacies, it was announced on Thursday as the company officially launched its branch on the ground floor of the Footsteps Mega Store on Camp Street.

(Jamaica Observer) MANDEVILLE, Manchester – Arguing that Jamaica should never consider itself too poor to help others, Prime Minister Andrew Holness says he has issued instructions for ways to be found to help economically and socially distressed Venezuela.

BOGOTA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Gang violence is forcing thousands of Hondurans to leave their homes every month to seek safety in other neighbourhoods and provinces of the Central American nation, a problem that is invisible but growing, says the U.N.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A new clean technology to turn sunlight into liquid fuel could drastically shrink the need for large plantations to grow crops for biofuels, while combating climate change, Harvard University researchers said on Thursday.

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif., (Reuters) – Artificial intelligence and machine learning will create computers so sophisticated and godlike that humans will need to implant “neural laces” in their brains to keep up, Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told a crowd of tech leaders this week.

LUANDA,  (Reuters) – Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has appointed his billionaire businesswoman daughter Isabel as head of state energy firm Sonangol in a shake-up that cements his dynastic grip on power in a major African oil exporter.