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The police on Sunday evening arrested a second individual, who they believe is the prime suspect in the fatal shooting and stabbing to death of Parika fuel dealer Seeram Singh.

Eureka Medical Laboratories (EML) on Saturday launched its solar-powered building and President David Granger said that the private sector has an important role to play in advancing Government’s efforts to undertake in pursuit of a green economy.

The police will today be seeking legal advice on the way forward in relation to the three suspects in custody in connection to the robbery at the Ramada Princess Casino on Friday morning.

Two persons including an aircraft loader of Trans Guyana Airways were arrested on Sunday afternoon at the Ogle Airport after they allegedly attempted to smuggle less than two kilogrammes of marijuana onto an outgoing flight.

The Guyana Press Association (GPA) yesterday welcomed President David Granger’s declaration that the government won’t interfere in the state media.

The man who brutally stabbed waitress Michelle Drennon almost three weeks ago has contacted her family twice last week, offering compensation in order to settle the matter.

The newly formed council of the Bartica municipality is expecting to garner $64 million in revenue annually from various sources and services in Bartica.

The Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) is working to ensure that an acceptable standard of broadcast is delivered to the public, Chairman Leonard Craig said last week.

Five months after the government’s plan to impose a ban on the importation of used tyres was announced in the national budget, several businessmen in the local used tyre industry have formed an association and started a petition opposing the ban.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition said it delivered 1.85 million signatures to the country’s elections authority yesterday as part of the process of seeking a recall referendum against President Nicolas Maduro.

Addressing the PNCR’s General Council meeting on Saturday, President David Granger told the gathering that his “biggest concern is to make Guyana safe for you and for your children.”

HAVANA (Reuters) – Hundreds of tourists and a handful of emotional Cuban-Americans yesterday arrived on the first US cruise ship to sail to Havana in more than 50 years, spilling onto the cobbled streets of the old city where they were warmly greeted by residents.

PARIS (Reuters) – “Je ne t’aime plus, mon amour” — “I don’t love you any more, my love” — was the wistful song of a love gone cold which greeted devotees of President Francois Hollande as they arrived at a rally for him last week.

The Mayor and City Council last week piloted its solid waste recycling programme at two city schools—St Pius Primary and St Sidwell’s Primary.

Magistrate Judy Latchman ordered that a Cuban who appeared before her at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court last week having overstayed her time here, pay a fine of $30,000 or spend two weeks in prison, then be deported to her homeland.

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has named chemical engineer Jose Icaza as the Andean nation’s new oil minister, according to a decree published yesterday.

AMMAN/GENEVA (Reuters) – Washington and Moscow said yesterday they were working hard to extend a truce in Syria to Aleppo, the divided northern city where a sharp escalation of violence in recent weeks has left a ceasefire in tatters and torpedoed peace talks.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A Brazilian judge ordered wireless phone carriers to block access to Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp for 72 hours throughout Latin America’s largest country starting yesterday afternoon, the second such incident against the popular messaging application in five months.

OSLO (Reuters) – Norway will send some 60 troops, including special forces soldiers, to train, advise and give operational support to Syrian fighters battling Islamic State militants, the country’s prime minister said yesterday.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian government troops surrounded Hama prison in the west of the country yesterday and fired tear gas after inmates revolted, seizing several guards, a monitoring group reported.