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Consumers from Onverwagt to Ithaca continue to experience interrupted power supply as a result of the damage sustained at the new Onverwagt substation due to the small fire on May 2, 2016, a release from GPL said yesterday.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s president yesterday proposed allowing same sex marriage nationally, the latest in a series of progressive policies in a traditionally conservative country.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Streaming down from hilltop slums in the dead of night, hundreds of Venezuelans join an ever-growing line that circles the vast “Bicentennial” state-run supermarket.

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s new interim government is suspending negotiations with construction companies caught up in a massive corruption investigation in order to make leniency deals more rigorous and prove its anti-graft credentials.

Stabroek Market was this evening lit up for the 50th Independence anniversary celebrations.

In a matter of days, a Brazilian company, New Frontier Agriculture Guyana Incorporated will begin  cultivating its first crops of soya and corn on a model farm in the country’s intermediate savannahs, GINA said today.

(Trinidad Guardian) “I will not resign,” a defiant Public Services Association (PSA) president Watson Duke said yesterday, moments after he was released on $250,000 bail following an appearance in the Port-of-Spain Magistrates’ Court on charges of rape and sexual assault of a union employee.

Guyana is currently experiencing a reduction in free spending due to a decrease in illegal activities, including narco trafficking, which had created a parallel economy here, Minister of Finance Winston Jordan said over the weekend.

A Port Mourant man is now in a critical condition at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after he was shot at his home on Sunday night and his wife believes the attack is linked to him being a witness a murder trial Shafraz Bacchus, also known as Andrew, 31, of Lot 21 Portuguese Quarters, Port Mourant, Corentyne, Berbice, was ironing his children’s school clothes when he saw a gun pointed at him through an opening in the floor. 

A 10-year-old boy lost his life on Sunday evening after he was hit from his bicycle by a car driven by a police constable who was allegedly speeding along the Public Road at Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara (WBD).

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) yesterday advised that five of the six suspects who were arrested in connection with the killing of Professor Perry Mars, be charged with murder.

A mother of five is currently hospitalised after she was struck down by a car yesterday morning while walking along the Public Road at Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara, escaping death for the second time.

As part of the beautification and reorganizing of Bartica, the town council has decided to tackle illegal vending and congestion around the market and vendors arcade areas.

A Coroner’s Inquest into the fatal shooting of suspected robbers Paul Bascom and Alberto Grant yesterday found that police should not face charges for the men’s deaths.

President David Granger says that government is awaiting a report from the tax reform committee before a decision is made on lowering the 16% Value-Added Tax (VAT).

Sums earned from the rental of the National Stadium at Providence will finally be transferred to the Consolidated Funds, according to Permanent Secretary of the Department of Culture, Youth and Sport Alfred King.

Two Jamaicans were allegedly found with 15.8 pounds of marijuana, concealed in the false bottom of a suitcase, at the Number 78 Village foreshore, Corentyne, where they were attempting to travel via the backtrack route to neighbouring Suriname.

A Corentyne fisherman lost his life on Friday night after he was struck by a speeding car along the Kilcoy/Chesney Public Road.

Inshan Jameen, 21, of Tempe Village, West Coast Berbice, is now dead after he was struck by a speeding car along the Fort Wellington Public Road on Saturday evening.

Guyana is looking for opportunities to export rice to Latin American countries but efforts are also being made to rekindle relations with Venezuela and reclaim the market lost there, President David Granger said last Wednesday.