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Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday called on the APNU+AFC government to consider transforming large sums of sugar debt into equity to get the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) on a better footing.

The State Assets Recovery Unit (SARU) is holding discussions with a team from the World Bank’s Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR) which is here on a “scoping mission”, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said yesterday.

Amid ongoing drought-like conditions and worrying low levels of water in reservoirs, the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) yesterday urged the populace to conserve water as the dry season is not scheduled to end until March.

Guyana is enthused at the expanded exploration activity by ExxonMobil in the offshore block where it found a large amount oil last year and new wells for drilling are to be defined imminently, according to Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman.

A team of doctors attached to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) have successfully performed for the first time a much needed corrective spinal surgeon on an accident victim.

Rajesh Seegobin, the businessman who was last year charged with underreporting cash at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri led his defence yesterday at a city court and told of his encounter with the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) .

A teenager accused of dangerous driving was fined $25, 000 after admitting to the offence when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

The man accused of driving dangerously and causing the death of 75-year-old Henrietta Cadogan appeared at the Linden Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with the offence and was granted bail.

The trial of the driver accused of causing the death of Police Constable Edson Williams, who was on duty outside the HJ Water World last July when he was struck down by a lorry, came to a close yesterday.

A couple accused of growing marijuana was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail after being found guilty of the offence following a trial at the Providence Magistrate’s Court.

The Iwokrama Inter-national Centre (IIC) for rainforest conservation on January 14th 2016 renewed the Collaborative Management Agreement (CMA) and the Memoran-dum of Understanding (MOU) it holds with the 20 communities of the North Rupununi.

Thirty lucky customers who took part in the Mabe appliances promotion hosted by Courts Guyana Inc.,

PARIS, (Reuters) – Defence chiefs from the United States, France, Britain and four other countries pledged yesteday to intensify their fight against Islamic State, looking to capitalise on recent battlefield gains against the militants.

Arrangements are currently being made by ranks of the Guyana Police Force to send samples from the decomposed remains found in Berbice earlier this month, suspected to be that of British teen Dominic Bernard to Trinidad and Tobago for DNA testing.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The head of a New York-based foundation pleaded guilty yesterday to participating in a scheme to bribe a former U.N.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The cases of babies born with unusually small heads continue to rise in Brazil where researchers said yesterday they had found new evidence linking the increase to the Zika virus spreading through the Americas.

A man who pelted a brick which hit a teen was ordered to pay compensation to the youth when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Haitians have been sidelined from reconstruction efforts following the earthquake that rocked Haiti six years ago, and a new approach is needed to give them more say in how billions of dollars of aid are spent, a Haitian former prime minister said.

WASHINGTON/DETROIT, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama pledged to offer support for the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan yesterday and environmental regulators were set to provide Congress with information about their role.

(Trinidad Guardian) Convicted terrorist Kareem Ibrahim has died in a United States prison.