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Bees on Saturday attacked a group of Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) workers at Bath, West Coast Berbice leaving one man dead and another hospitalised.

The long-awaited Local Government Commission will not be in place by this month as initially stated but it should be set up by the end of June, according to Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan.

The MMA-ADA says that 45 state land leases at Seafield and No.40 villages on the West Coast Berbice have been cancelled.

Residents of Region Three can now access Tuberculosis (TB) treatment without having to travel to Georgetown, GINA said.

By Mariah Lall in Lethem Photos by Keno George   The stands of the Triple ‘R’ Rodeo Arena came alive over the Easter weekend as hundreds of local and international patrons journeyed to the Region 9 to be part of the annual Rupununi Ranchers’ Rodeo.

A Guyanese engineer attached to the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) departed the country last week to undergo training in India that will result in the water utility being better able to measure water leaks.

The Middle Road, La Penitence beautician who was busted in the US state of Georgia in December last year has pleaded not guilty to two cocaine charges.

Louranza Daniels and her father Leonard Daniels did not only share a home but they were also contesting in the same constituency of Mabaruma Settlement–Barimanobo at the March 18 Local Government Elections.

Forty-two unclaimed motorcycles are to be auctioned at police stations in the next few weeks.

Low fines, lack of qualified persons as well as the absence of an abattoir on the Corentyne are some of the issues affecting the work of the Environmental Health Department in Region Six, according to the Region’s Environmen-tal Health Officer Marvin Dindyal.

President David Granger on Thursday met with the children and relatives of the late Winslow Carrington, who once served as a Minister of Government, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said.

President David Granger has expressed condolences to Sarah Paris on the sudden death of her father William Haslyn Parris today.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Syrian government forces backed by heavy Russian air support drove Islamic State out of Palmyra yesterday, inflicting what the army called a mortal blow to militants who seized the city last year and dynamited its ancient temples.

LAHORE, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – Pakistani authorities launched a hunt yesterday for militants behind a suicide bomb that killed at least 65 people in an attack that targeted Christians and was claimed by a Taliban faction that once declared ties with Islamic State.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Scientists on Thursday announced the creation of a synthetic organism stripped down to the bare essentials with the fewest genes needed to survive and multiply, a feat at the microscopic level that may provide big insights on the very nature of life.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Fresh from Democratic presidential primary wins over the weekend in three U.S.

(Variety.com) – “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” steamrolled past records, debuting to a gargantuan $170.1 million over Easter weekend despite being pilloried by critics.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduras has arrested a suspect in the murder of an environmental rights activist and colleague of recently slain award-winning indigenous leader Berta Caceres, officials said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Official minutes from an executive meeting which took place at the Prison’s Administration Building, Phillip Street, Port-of-Spain, on January 27, 2015, has revealed that prisons officials were aware of plans for a jail break by inmates at the Port-of-Spain prison.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican police detained a man suspected of laundering money for jailed drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in the southwestern state of Oaxaca, authorities said yesterday.