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WASHINGTON/CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. Congress, outraged over the Obama administration’s pursuit of Central American migrant families for deportation, yesterday called for a halt and new protections for undocumented people from three crime-infested countries.

Twenty-one students in Bartica, Region Seven, were yesterday presented with bicycles from the government as part of President David Granger’s ‘Buses, Boats and Bicycles’ initiative, which is aimed at ensuring that all of Guyana’s children are able to attend school.

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) has sounded an alarm over ongoing criminal activities across the country, which it says warrants a national consultation.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena marked his first year in office yesterday by pardoning a Tamil Tiger rebel convicted of plotting to murder him a decade ago.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s federal investigator yesterday arrested the founder of PACL Ltd over allegations the property company cheated investors of $6.8 billion, in what local media is calling the country’s biggest financial scandal.

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says workers contracted by it to conduct disconnections were attacked in the city in two separate cases this week.

PHILADELPHIA, (Reuters) – A gunman claiming allegiance to Islamic State militants shot and seriously wounded a Philadelphia police officer, saying he ambushed his patrol car “in the name of Islam,” the city’s police commissioner said yesterday.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s new economic vice president yesterday urged an end to what he termed alarmism over the OPEC country’s finances and said it had enough experience to emerge from its current crisis.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A Bahamian man pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges that he hacked into celebrities’ email accounts to steal unreleased movies and television scripts, personal information and sexually explicit videos that he then tried to sell.

FAIRFAX, Va., (Reuters) – President Barack Obama fielded tough questions from gun owners at a televised town hall on Thursday, defending his move to tighten gun rules as he sought to elevate the issue of gun control before the November 2016 election to replace him.

(Trinidad Guardian) Chutney soca artiste Samraj “Rikki Jai” Jaimungal had to beg for his life after a gunman who shot at him and missed kept the loaded gun pointed at his waist for approximately three of the most terrifying minutes of his life, as he demanded money and other valuables in exchange for Jaimungal’s life on Wednesday.

MUNICH, (Reuters) – Heavy demand for the first edition of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” to be printed in Germany since his death is taking its publisher by surprise, with orders received for almost four times the print run.

The following statement was given by Alana Seebarran on Thursday to the police on the sequence of events leading up to the crash on December 30th on Carifesta Avenue that claimed three lives.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Batsman Leon Johnson and left-arm seamer Sheldon Cottrell have both been handed retainer contracts by the West Indies Cricket Board, despite not featuring for the regional side over the last year.

Staymon George and Aaron Wilfred Hing are wanted by the police for questioning in relation to the disappearance of British citizen Dominic Bernard, the police said this afternoon.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Legendary former Australia Test captain Ian Chappell says he would support an international ban on West Indies batting star Chris Gayle for his controversial on-air flirtations with a female television reporter.

The Ministry of Public Health is closely monitoring the indigenous community of Baramita, Region One, after several cases of vomiting and diarrhoea were detected in the area, GINA said today.

Ambassador Jernej Videtič, Head of Delegation of the EU to Guyana and Omattie Madray, Managing Director of ChildLink today signed a grant contract to implement the project titled “Child Rights Alliance”.

The Guyana Water Inc today said that a disconnection team contracted by it was attacked twice and one of the workers severely injured.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) today expressed concern over the reported search of the home of Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Khurshid Sattaur by officials of the GRA.