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Portugal’s Ambassador to Guyana Manuel De Jesus Teles Fazendeiro was on Friday accredited by President David Granger who promised to work with that country as they promote each other’s interests.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure will be doing remedial works to the Supenaam stelling in Essequibo, which is currently in a deplorable state, GINA said.

Three hundred persons within Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) are to gain employment with the completion of the Tuschen call centre at East Bank Essequibo, GINA said yesterday.

Magistrate Zamilla Ally-Seepaul will tomorrow rule on the admissibility of statements that police say were given by Daymeion Millington, one of the five accused in the robbery of Justice Nicola Pierre and her family.

The Joint Services, comprising the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), the Guyana Police Force, the Guyana Prison Service and the Guyana Fire Service, will be holding a Command Post Exercise (CPX), “Exercise Holdfast” today and tomorrow at Base Camp Ayanganna as part of their preparations for Local Government Election (LGE).

A John Fernandes employee, caught with $7,500 worth of cannabis, was yesterday sentenced to three years in prison by a city court.

President David Granger on Monday met with Halim Majeed, who has been appointed to head Guyana’s Diplomatic Mission in Cuba.

It has been more than a month since Ann Mohammed was struck down and killed minutes after leaving her work place at Coverden, East Bank Demerara, but no one has been charged as yet and her family is pleading with the authorities for swifter justice.

A youth was granted bail last Thursday after he denied breaking into his neighbour’s house at East La Penitence and stealing over $200,000 in cash and valuables.

Nominations are being invited from Guyana for the 2017 Anthony N Sabga (ANSA) Caribbean Awards for Excellence.

(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Monday recommitted his newly installed Government to a policy of efficiency and frugality in public administration following the swearing in of his 18-member Cabinet and warned them that corruption will not be tolerated.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition alliance launched a campaign yesterday to oust socialist President Nicolas Maduro via street protests, a recall referendum or a constitutional amendment cutting his term.

DETROIT, (Reuters) – Republican front-runner Donald Trump rolled to big primary wins in highly prized Michigan and Mississippi yesterday, brushing off a week of blistering attacks from the party’s establishment to expand his lead in the White House nominating race.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada plans to significantly increase the number of immigrants it will accept this year, with a focus on reuniting families and bringing in more refugees, the government said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) “You cannot do this to us.” That was the message sent by an incensed Presi-dent Anthony Carmona on Monday, to those responsible for peddling the Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (ORTT) medal, the nation’s highest award, on the international e-commerce website, eBay.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Marcelo Odebrecht, the former chief executive of Latin America’s largest construction company, was sentenced yesterday to 19 years in prison for his role in an escalating corruption scandal rattling the government of President Dilma Rousseff.

KOLKATA, India, CMC – West Indies captain Darren Sammy said today the contracts impasse with the West Indies Cricket Board was a thing of the past and stressed the squad was now fully focused on winning the Twenty20 World Cup.

US oil giant ExxonMobil has donated $20m to the  National Protected Areas Commission for work on the Botanical Gardens, Vlissengen Road.

The police are conducting investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of Cuban national Joel Perez Laffita, 47 years, whose body was found on the roadway at Providence, EBD, at about 0130h.

While the PPP yesterday said “heads must roll” for the fatal fire at the Camp Street prison, which resulted in the deaths of 17 inmates last Thursday, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan dismissed the call for his sacking as “ridiculous.”