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The popular “Dread Shop” at the Stabroek Market, was early yesterday morning demolished by workers of the Mayor and City Council, which went ahead with the action although the property was at the centre of ongoing court proceedings.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) yesterday said that it will be conducting a simulation exercise on Mass Casualty Management at D’urban Park tomorrow as part of the Commission’s preparation for Guyana’s 50 independence anniversary, GINA reported.

The lawyer for Guyana-born businessman Ed Ahmad is seeking a deferral of his New York sentencing for mortgage fraud conspiracy to September.

CAIRO/ATHENS,  (Reuters) – An EgyptAir jet carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean yesterday in a crash that Egypt said may have been caused by a terrorist attack.

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – San Francisco’s police chief, Greg Suhr, resigned under pressure from the city’s mayor yesterday, just hours after an officer’s fatal shooting a black woman sparked new outrage in a city whose storybook beauty has been overshadowed recently by high-profile police killings.

ABUJA, (Reuters) – A second girl who was among more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in a raid on their school in the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok more than two years ago has been rescued, a spokesman for the Nigerian army said yesterday.

A 17-year-old girl was yesterday released on $80,000 bail after denying that she stole a smartphone.

(Reuters) – – Television journalist Morley Safer, who made his reputation as a Vietnam War correspondent for CBS and then became a mainstay on the network’s “60 Minutes” show for 46 years, has died at age 84, a few days after his retirement, the network announced on Thursday.

ROME, (Reuters) – The United States has returned to Italy a rare copy of a letter Christopher Columbus wrote in 1493 describing his discovery of the Americas, after the document was stolen more than 25 years ago and replaced with a forgery.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, under fire for getting involved in an unprecedented physical fracas in Parliament, said yesterday that he was only human and in a high pressure job but promised there would be no repeat of his actions.

About 1400h. today, the police say that Marilyn Burning of Atlantic Ville, ECD, was about to enter her home after transacting business at a bank in Georgetown, when she was attacked and held at gunpoint by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, and who had driven up on a motor cycle.

The Guyana Oil Company today said that with effect from Friday 20th May 2016, there will be an adjustment in the price of  Kerosene by $5.00  per Litre at all Guyoil Service Stations.

Consequent upon an “inundation” of requests from businesses and the general public seeking to “fully celebrate” the 50th Anniversary of the Independence of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, the Ministry of Public Security today announced that, in conjunction with the Guyana Police Force, it will temporarily relax the enforcement of the 2:00am business deadline to 4 a.m.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – An EgyptAir jet carrying 66 passengers and crew on a flight from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean sea, Egypt’s national airline said.

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday acknowledged that Cabinet had played a role in the NIS investment in the Berbice Bridge but disputed the findings of a forensic audit of the Scheme which said that Cabinet had a significant input over the Board and made key investment decisions.

Though legal counsel for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is analysing a claim by the Chinese logging firm Baishanlin that its investment here is being crippled, Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge says that he believes that the company is confused about government’s responsibility in this matter.

The two men charged with the murder of Sophia woman Simone Hackett, yesterday appeared in court where the individual charges were withdrawn and a joint charge instituted.

The driver of the minibus that was involved in last Friday’s fatal accident at Richmond, Essequibo Coast was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Anna Regina Magistrate’s Court.

A Herstelling engineer   was yesterday granted $500,000 bail by a city court after it was alleged that he, over a two-year period, falsely obtained $13 million from a woman to deliver a range of services, including building a house and hiring a private investigator.

Corriverton resident Javid Balgobin, who was behind the wheel of motor car PSS 1636, when it is alleged that  a cyclist rode into  his path, yesterday faced a charge of causing death by dangerous driving  before Magistrate Marissa Mittelholzer.