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GTT yesterday launched free 4G for its subscribers to over 20 educational and news sites and social media platforms Facebook and WhatsApp.

A team of Guyana’s lawmen, headed by Deputy Commander, ‘B’ Division Errol Watts, has travelled to Suriname to continue to investigate the recent fatal piracy attack on the Corentyne and locate the missing fishermen.

Two projects on improving the water supply and hinterland airstrips here are under active consideration by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) as Guyana looks to benefit from £53.2 million in grant resources from the United Kingdom.

Although he lamented the “disorganisation” of the 50th Anniversary event planners that saw him and party members walk out of the May 25th flag-raising for lack of seats, former President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that it was time “to move on”.

The suspect in the robbing of retired British soldier Edward John Constant in the vicinity of Stabroek Market has been arrested and was yesterday positively identified during an identification parade.

Seon Greene, a driver employed by the Ministry of the Presidency was yesterday sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison after he was found guilty of causing the death of cyclist Mohammed Khan in 2015.

Relatives and friends paid tribute as Kevon Scipio, the 14-year-old steel pannist who died tragically on the eve of Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary in a freak accident, was yesterday laid to rest.

Yesterday, Guyana recorded its first infant mortality for the month of June when a 36-year-old mother lost her seventh child after an emergency C-Section.

Over a year after the APNU+AFC coalition came to power it is  still to deliver on the promise of a functioning Public Procurement Commission.

A man was charged and remanded to prison on an allegation that he shot his friend in the back when they were on a hunting trip in the interior.

CARACAS/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government said yesterday that a move by the head of the Organization of American States (OAS) to censure the country for breaching democratic norms is an “imperialist” scheme to take the OPEC member’s oil.

A businessman got a second chance yesterday after his three counts of allegedly obtaining monies by false pretence were dismissed by a city magistrate.

A William Street, Kitty resident was yesterday granted $50,000 bail in a city court, after it was alleged that he stole over $200,000 in items used in mining.

DAR ES SALAAM, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tanzania has begun a nationwide programme to seize land left undeveloped by investors and return it to poor farmers, in a bid to quell conflicts between farmers, herders and developers.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – From pizzas and soups to deli meats, dips and hamburgers, Americans’ diets are often packed with salt.

CHENNAI, India,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – At least 300,000 children across India are drugged, beaten and forced to beg every day, in what has become a multi million rupee industry controlled by human trafficking cartels, police and trafficking experts said.

Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud has denied attending a strip club in Alberttown.

A 16-year-old Guyanese girl was shot dead while babysitting her little cousin inside their Brooklyn, New York  apartment yesterday and law enforcers are looking for her boyfriend, police sources said, according to the New York Daily News.

(Trinidad Guardian) President Anthony Carmona yesterday assented to the Strategic Services Amendment Act (SSA).

A senior United Kingdom official was yesterday expected to hand over a proposal to the APNU+AFC government on tackling security issues here.