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Questions have been raised about the recent approval of an application to operate a dredge in the name of Simona Broomes, the daughter of Junior Natural Resources Minister Simona Broomes.

Three persons are now dead and about 16 others are hospitalised following a head-on collision which occurred late Friday night along the Public Road at Richmond, Essequibo Coast.

The police yesterday recaptured wanted man and murder suspect Stafrei Hopkinson Alexander who had escaped from custody last December and he is likely to be questioned in relation to another murder which occurred in Berbice some time ago.

Persons suffering with heart disease may no longer have to worry about the cost of travelling abroad for required surgeries as the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) in collaboration with the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI) yesterday commissioned a new $2.1 billion Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory.

Thanks to a team of local technological developers and entrepreneurs, access to a full service directory for ‘everything Guyana’ can now be in the palm of your hands with Directory.gy,

Corentyne fisher folks have welcomed the noticeable decline in pirate attacks but remain fearful that the joint services will be ill prepared to protect them in the event of any possible resurgence.

The doors of the Tower Suites, rebranded to continue the legacy of the Hotel Tower, were formally opened last evening and Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) Director Indranauth Haralsingh hailed it as both historic and timely.

Pressing matters, including the unrest at the Georgetown Prison, have delayed the finalisation and release of the protocols for the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), according to Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian government forces retook a hospital in Deir al-Zor after Islamic State attacked it yesterday following a dawn offensive by the militants on the besieged eastern Syrian city, a war monitor and state media said.

Police are likely to reopen the investigation into the two-year-old murder of popular designer and entertainment promoter Trevor Rose, whose family remains convinced that he was killed because of a woman.

CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court sentenced 152 protesters yesterday to between two and five years in prison each after they demonstrated against a decision to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, judicial sources and state media said.

KAMPALA (Reuters) – Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye was charged with treason late on Friday for declaring himself president and challenging the election victory of veteran leader Yoweri Museveni, officials from both camps said.

Former Minister of Education Henry Jeffrey has criticised the decision by the Ministry of Education to discontinue using the National Grade Two and Grade Four assessments in the score to decide secondary school placement, saying it is “anti-working class.”

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition on Saturday slammed a state of emergency decreed by President Nicolas Maduro and vowed to press home efforts to remove the leftist leader this year amid a grim economic crisis.

LONDON (Reuters) – Boris Johnson, who is leading the “Out” campaign ahead of Britain’s European Union membership referendum, said in an interview that the bloc was following the path of Adolf Hitler and Napoleon by trying to create a European superstate.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil’s interim government dismissed criticism by leftist countries in Latin America, including Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia, over the impeachment process of Dilma Rousseff, who was suspended as president by the senate.

About 1000h. today, police ranks at the Kurupukari Crossing Checkpoint, Rupununi, arrested Stafrei Hopkinson Alexander of Laing Avenue, West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, who was in a vehicle at the Checkpoint.

About 2320h. last night, the police say that a mini-bus and a motor car were travelling in opposite directions along the Richmond Public Road, Essequibo Coast, when they collided.

(Trinidad Guardian) High Court Judge James Aboud will rule on whether the United States Government should be allowed to join, as an interested party, in a lawsuit filed by former Fifa vice president Jack Warner challenging his extradition, on June 17.

Mere hours after retired Professor Pariedeau Mars was discovered dead in his Prashad Nagar home on Thursday evening, six teenagers, including two girls, were arrested and a quantity of items stolen from him was recovered.