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On Thursday, PPP/C MP Irfaan Ali is scheduled to move a motion in Parliament calling for the resumption of negotiations with Venezuela for the sale of rice and paddy.

(Trinidad Guardian) The owner of the Claxton Bay bar where a teen bandit was beaten so badly by his “victims” that he never regained consciousess after he was hospitalised feels no joy he is dead.

City Hall yesterday shut the door on any resumption of vending at Stabroek square, while promising vendors upset over their removal that the temporary site for their relocation would be ready by today.

It is too early to see the results of the measures government has put in place to fight crime, President David Granger said yesterday, while adding that overtures made to the UK will soon see a fresh approach to security sector reform.

Three men, including a security guard who police say aided in the planning, were yesterday charged with stealing almost $9 million from the Ramada Princess Hotel casino and their lawyers told a city court that they were abused while in custody.

Curt Thomas, the man accused of murdering Parika fuel dealer Seeram Singh, was yesterday charged with the crime and remanded to prison, all while professing his innocence.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) and the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) yesterday managed to secure a temporary High Court order preventing the GuySuCo from re-deploying and dismissing sugar workers stationed at the Wales Estate until a consultation is held between the two unions and the corporation in keeping with the law.

President David Granger yesterday said that he supports the efforts of the Mayor and City Council to clean up and restore order to the Stabroek Square but regrets the delay in readying the alternative site for displaced vendors.

The opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday condemned the forced relocation of vendors from the Stabroek Market square, calling it both “anti-people” and “anti-poor.”

Eight months after she first took up her post in Caracas, Guyana’s Ambassador to Venezuela Cheryl Miles was finally able to present her credentials to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Last October’s ‘Exercise Greenheart,’ which was aimed at testing the preparedness of  the Guyana Defence Force  (GDF), saw the expenditure of an additional $410M for which approval from the National Assembly is being sought.

A third suspect was yesterday charged with the murder of Habiboodean, the elderly Ruby, East Bank Essequibo businessman who was fatally beaten in his home eight years ago.

Zafar Khan, the truck driver who ran over an 82-year-old woman at Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara, on Tuesday, has been charged with causing her death.

An absent Rawle Brammer, who was charged last November with having 154 grammes of cannabis at his home for trafficking, was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail after being found guilty.

The conduct of some members of the National Assembly was on Wednesday called into question by Speaker Barton Scotland even as opposition MP Juan Edghill was sent to the Privileges Committee for a statement he made last year and Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman and Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira called for each other to be sent to the said committee.

Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson on Wednesday defended the government’s decision to use the D’Urban Park for the impending independence celebrations, saying it would have almost twice the capacity of the National Stadium and would be more easily accessible to more citizens.

Social activist Mark Benschop yesterday expressed his displeasure with the Commissioners and Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the Camp Street Prison unrest and deaths after he was asked to testify in private.

The Burn Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) yesterday received Cdn$13,500 worth of surgical equipment and two laptop computers from founders of Canadian NGO Caribbean North Charities Foundation.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama warned yesterday that occupying the Oval Office “is not a reality show,” in a swipe at outspoken Republican candidate Donald Trump who is vying to replace him in the White House.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Sadiq Khan, the son of a bus driver, became London’s first Muslim mayor yesterday, seeing off a Conservative challenger who attempted to link him to extremism and securing a much-needed victory for his opposition Labour Party.