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The Mayor and members of the City Council on Thursday visited several areas in the city, where they found several violations, including the obstruction of drains and illegal construction works.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – North Korea’s leaders should face trial for crimes against humanity as there has been no improvement in human rights since a U.N.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Two Colombians ran a major heroin and cocaine smuggling operation to New York aboard the Royal Spanish Navy’s official training ship, paying thousands of dollars in bribes to midshipmen on the vessel, prosecutors said yesterday.

The Guyana National Shipping Corporation (GNSC) yesterday handed over six unpainted benches to the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) to be used for public seating at children’s play park at the Merriman Mall.

DAVOS, Switzerland, (Reuters) – Argentina’s President, Mauricio Macri, said yesterday he had told U.S.

A 24-member contingent of Barbadian manufacturing and services companies is scheduled to arrive in Guyana next Thursday for a series of pre-arranged business-to-business meetings in what is the final leg of a multi-country Caricom trade mission.

The Guyana Police Force on Thursday reiterated that police ranks in plain clothes and in unmarked vehicles are not authorised to stop motorists, unless they are performing duties on the roadway in front of a police station.

ANKARA, (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Tehran yesteday to discuss improvement of economic and political ties after lifting of international sanctions because of Iran’s disputed nuclear programme, state TV said.

The Transparency Institute Guyana Inc. (TIGI) yesterday said that the Department of Culture, Youth and Sport of the Ministry of Education has been dragging its feet on a probe into the alleged misuse by its staff of state-owned steel pans.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti called off tomorrow’s presidential election after violent protests erupted yesterday and the opposition candidate vowed to boycott the vote over alleged fraud.

JEDDAH, (Reuters) – The world’s largest Muslim body has backed Saudi Arabia in its weeks-long diplomatic spat with Iran, accusing Tehran of backing terrorism and meddling in other countries’ affairs.

(Trinidad Guardian) Soldiers are to return to the streets of T&T immediately to assist in searching and taking out criminals, and they will become a permanent fixture.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Veteran left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul has called time on his illustrious 22-year international career, eight months after being axed from the Test squad.

A Better Hope businessman who was held for four hours at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri on Tuesday and two pieces of jewellery valued altogether at $4m taken from him by the Customs Anti Narcotic Unit has moved to court seeking in excess of $10m in damages and a declaration that his detention was unlawful.

The Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc today rapped the Department of Culture over a probe that was to be done of the alleged misuse of state-owned steel pans.

At about 1250h. today, the police say that four men, one of whom was armed with a firearm, entered the Bank of Baroda at Mon Repos, ECD, and held up the lone female private security guard on duty and took away her .32 service revolver.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)  has added Guyana and several other Caribbean countries to its travel advisory asking pregnant women to avoid visiting because of the presence of the mosquito-borne Zika virus, according to its website.

Attempts to eradicate domestic violence must start with an investigation into causation, President David Granger said today, adding that it will take time to undo decades of a culture of criminal violence.

Investigations are being conducted into the circumstances surrounding the death of a so far unidentified woman, whose body was found in a canal at Zeelugt, EBE, about 2030h.

At about 2100h. last night, the police say that Glenfield Dennison, 31 years, of Cummings Lodge, ECD, was shot to his chest and left arm while on the roadway outside his premises.