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An action plan has been developed to treat the outbreak of gastroenteritis in the community of Baramita, Region One, GINA said yesterday.

The police yesterday arrested two men wanted in connection with murders.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Errol Williams, one of the men accused of killing fireman Patrick Daly in 2009, began yesterday with the testimonies of two witnesses.

Residents of Campbellville and Sophia will soon get  relief from a  disruption in water supply as contractors are working to replace the transmission main from Duncan Street to Vlissengen Road.

A Port Kaituma man has been remanded to prison after he was charged with unlawful possession of a gun and ammunition.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Music superstar Prince, who was found dead in his home in a Minneapolis suburb in late April, died of an accidental, self-administered overdose of an opioid painkiller, the county medical examiner said in a death report yesterday.

The Bright Up Guyana competition was judged on May 29, 2016 and the Ministry of Agriculture shone in two categories.

SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – El Salvador prosecutors yesterday asked Congress to allow the government to investigate the country’s ambassador to Germany for illegal arms sales during his time in the Defense Ministry.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica got substantially more backing for development from the People’s Republic of China than any other country or funding agency, with an estimated J$103 billion of loans and grants from the Asian powerhouse spread across nearly a dozen projects.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton lambasted Donald Trump’s foreign policy platform as “dangerously incoherent” in a speech yesterday that cast her Republican rival as both a frightening and laughable figure.

BODO/ABUJA, Nigeria,(Reuters) – Militants launched new attacks in the Niger Delta yesterday, vowing to bring Nigeria’s struggling oil industry to a total halt, and the president cancelled a long-awaited visit to the region.

(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Andrew Holness says Jamaica needs to know within three months whether Venezuela is prepared to go ahead with upgrading the Petrojam oil refinery on Marcus Garvey Drive in Kingston.

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC-The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) today announced the schedule for India’s Caribbean tour, which was thrown into jeopardy after the regional side pulled out of a series on the sub continent nearly two years ago.

The police say that investigations are being conducted into a break and enter and larceny and Robbery under Arms.

Investigations, police say, are currently being conducted into the murder of Candacy Pitt age 31, of 18 Chelsea Park, East Coast Demerara which occurred yesterday about 21:45h.

(Trinidad Guardian) An officer from the T&T Defence Force will be stationed at a US facility, expediting the exchange of intelligence information between T&T and the United States, National Security Minister Edmund Dillon said yesterday. He

Guyana has protested to Venezuela over Monday’s  firing of shots by that country’s army at three mines commission officials on the Cuyuni River.

A mason is now dead and another injured after they fell yesterday from a scaffold on the four-storey building where they were both working at Holmes and Quamina streets, South Cummingsburg, Georgetown.

The report of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the March 3rd Camp Street prison riot that claimed 17 lives has recommended that the government make urgent efforts to reduce overcrowding and improve the physical and social facilities there.

Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that People’s Progressive Party/Civic  Member of Parliament Nigel Dharamlall will have to give “believable” explanations to the executive of the party about allegations that he threatened to shoot an employee of the Inter-American Development Bank after he saw the individual talking to his ex-wife.