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A Mon Repos storage bond was completely destroyed after it went up in flames last night.

In its contribution to an open debate in the United Nations Security Council on Monday, Guyana has underlined the need for respect of sovereignty and the vital roles of institutions such as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in what will be seen as veiled references to stepped up aggression by Venezuela since May last year over the border controversy between the two countries.

A young entrepreneur, an IT technician and a pensioner are contesting to be elected as the next representative of the 5th Constituency of the Georgetown municipality.

Brazilian national Raymond Moreira, who was in September charged with illegally withdrawing $60,000 from a local ATM, was yesterday found not guilty of the crime by a city court.

A verdict is likely today when the jury retires to deliberate on the evidence in the trial of Alvin Semple, who is charged with murdering Anna Catherina resident Balram Teekaram.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has signed a contract with a local company to repair the Diamond well where a broken casing has caused woes for residents of the Diamond Housing Scheme and Kaneville on the East Bank of Demerara.

Pastor Andrew Hannibal, who is accused of sexual activity with a minor, was released on $200,000 bail.

A bus conductor was yesterday brought before a city court on an armed robbery charge.

Three miners who were missing since Sunday were found yesterday. Anthony Van Sertima, 44 and Gavin Van Sertima, 20, of Buxton and Keastan Lewis, of South Vigilance, East Coast Demerara had reportedly gone into the Omai Backdam on Sunday in a bid to locate mining land and had gotten lost.

Fitzroy Gibson, who is accused of abusing and threatening his mother-in-law, was yesterday remanded to prison by city magistrate Faith McGusty.

The Guyana Government on Wednesday signed a US$3M agreement to rehabilitate the Cunha Canal, a key drainage mechanism on the East Bank of Demerara which has been operating significantly under capacity.

NEWBERRY, S.C., (Reuters) – Pope Francis forcefully injected himself into the U.S.

Principal of ABC Academy Arthur Bernard Chandra was on Wednesday fined $25,000 and ordered to undergo counselling after being found guilty of unlawfully assaulting a former seven-year-old student.

BANGKOK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Several big international funds, including the U.N.

The Ministry of Natural Resources, on Wednesday, received equipment valued $10M, purchased with support from the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP), for the Guyana Mining School and Training Centre.

“The Lord Canary, the Life and Contributions of Malcolm Corrica,” the biography of the Guyanese calypso legend, was launched last evening at the National Library.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron appealed to EU leaders yesterday to help him settle the question of Britain’s European Union membership for a generation by agreeing a “credible” deal he can sell to the British public to stay in the bloc.

Farmer Samiull Intiaz Shaw, also known as ‘Taliban’ and his farmhand, Ramsammy Angrashalam, called ‘Babs,’ were both sentenced on Monday on a charge of attempted murder at the Berbice High Court.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s Supreme Court ruled yeterday that a key part of the law often called “joint enterprise”, which allows people to be convicted of murder even if they did not strike the fatal blow, had been misinterpreted for three decades.

KAMPALA, (Reuters) – The man hoping to break Yoweri Museveni’s 30-year grip on Uganda’s presidency was briefly arrested yesterday and the government shut down social media sites as voters cast their ballots under the gaze of police and soldiers in riot gear.