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Over 500 residents of Wales, West Bank Demerara and nearby villages joined a march in the community on Wednesday in protest at a decision by GuySuCo/the government to close the sugar estate.

President David Granger on Wednesday called on the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to live up to its pledge to ensure the peaceful settlement of disputes as laid out in the December 2011 Caracas Declaration.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Richard Stanton, who is accused of killing of businesswoman Patricia Sanasie, continued yesterday with a police inspector giving his testimony.

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) is calling for the removal of the Leila Ramson-led Teaching Service Commis-sion (TSC) over what it said is its disregard for an ongoing High Court injunction which bars the commission from approving promotions of senior teachers.

A collision of two cars at the corner of Mandela Avenue and Hadfield Streets left one driver with a broken neck early yesterday morning.

Police are looking to the results of an autopsy scheduled for today on the body of Drill, Mahaicony farmer Kurt Burke to determine whether he was murdered.

A Cummings Street man was yesterday sentenced to three years in prison after he admitted to trafficking 20 grammes of cannabis.

A fisherman who allegedly stole two pairs of shoes was yesterday denied bail after he was unable to provide a valid address to a city court.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, (Reuters) – A vaccine for the Zika virus, which has been linked to severe birth defects in thousands of infants, could be ready for emergency use before year-end, one of its lead developers said yesterday, a timetable well ahead of estimates by U.S.

BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Truck drivers are part of the problem in the widespread sexual exploitation of children in Brazil along the nation’s highways but they now are becoming part of the solution, experts say.

SEATTLE, (Reuters) – A massive luxury yacht owned by Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen destroyed most of a protected coral reef during a visit to the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean earlier this month, media reported.

DES MOINES, Iowa, (Reuters) – Donald Trump shunned last night’s debate of the Republican presidential candidates hosted by Fox News and instead filled an auditorium a few miles down the road, trying to prove his widespread support only days before Iowa kicks off the nominating voting process.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A U.S. Treasury official’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin is corrupt “best reflects the administration’s view,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters at a daily briefing yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) Top United States drug fighters have given Barbadian cops high marks for steering clear of corruption.

(Reuters) – Dozens of Boston-area residents linked to the Central American-based MS-13 street gang were being rounded up by law enforcement authorities yesterday after their indictments on racketeering conspiracy charges related to murders and other crimes, federal prosecutors said.

RECIFE, Brazil, (Reuters) – Children born with abnormally small heads and brain defects linked to the outbreak of Zika virus in Brazil are also suffering serious damage to their eyesight and possibly their hearing, doctors said yesterday.

BURNS, Ore., (Reuters) – The FBI yesterday released a video investigators say shows one of the occupiers of an Oregon wildlife refuge reach for his jacket pocket before he was shot dead by law enforcement after speeding away from a traffic stop where the group’s leader was arrested.

Police Constable Ganesh Rajcoomar appeared in court on Tuesday charged with raping a 14 year old girl last October and was later released on $200, 000 bail.

Gary Mervin Primo called ‘Gary Talkout’, 40, is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to investigations into the abduction of Ronson Anthony Williams and Carlos Anderson, the police said today.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Zika virus – linked to severe birth defects in thousands of babies in Brazil – is spreading “explosively” and could affect as many as four million people in the Americas, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today.