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Two men were each fined $7,500 yesterday after they admitted to drunk driving.

The number of political parties, voluntary groups or individual candidates contesting the Local Government Elections will be tallied today as midnight last night was the deadline for submission of symbols to the Guyana Elections Commission.

Gold production by Guyana Goldfields Inc totalled 35,901 ounces last year and the Canadian firm is now in commercial production and hopes to produces at least 130 000 ounces of the precious mineral at its Aurora Gold Mine this year.

City businessman Kevin Jordan, who has been convicted and sentenced to 18 years in jail for raping a seven-year-old boy, is out of prison after successfully applying for bail pending his appeal.

A man was yesterday charged with driving dangerously and colliding with a minibus on Christmas Day.

Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge, and Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs, Sydney Allicock, and Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Brigadier Mark Phillips recently visited Kaikan in Region Seven and assured the residents that Government has their interest at heart, GINA said.

Massy Stores is advertising for staff as it prepares to open supermarkets here sometime this year.

(Jamaica Observer) Government says it is working to transform and strengthen its public procurement system, to ensure greater transparency and efficiency in the management of this process.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Wiping back tears as he remembered children killed in a mass shooting, President Barack Obama yesterday ordered stricter gun rules that he can impose without Congress and urged American voters to reject pro-gun candidates.

(Barbados Nation) The Barbados Government yesterday signed an agreement with telecommunications provider Digicel Business that will see the eventual connectivity of all government data and networks.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada registered a 5.0 magnitude earthquake yesterday and the experts are warning of more to come.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition took control of Congress for the first time in 16 years yesteday in a rowdy session, setting up a power struggle with President Nicolas Maduro amid a worsening economic crisis.

(Reuters) – North Korea said it had successfully conducted a test of a miniaturised hydrogen nuclear device this morning.

Investigations are being conducted into the circumstances surrounding the death of fisherman Shahabudeen Haniff, 49 years, of Meten-Meer-Zorg, WCD, whose body was found in the net of a fishing vessel that was working in the vicinity of the Berbice River, during yesterday, the police said today.

The Private Sector Commission today called on the police and the army to explain the circumstances behind an accident last week that claimed three lives following reports that it involved the chase of a person who was believed to be the daughter of NICIL Head Winston Brassington.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia have withdrawn from the under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh later this month because of concerns over the “safety and security” of the squad, Cricket Australia said in statement on Tuesday.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – West Indies batsman Chris Gayle has been fined A$10,000 ($7,197) by the Melbourne Renegades Twenty20 team for asking an Australian TV reporter out on a date and directing personal comments at her during a televised pitchside interview.

As Anita Baichan burned to death in a fire set by robbers who had invaded her Hope, West Coast Berbice home early Sunday morning, her son could only watch on helplessly.

From its inception, the Skeldon sugar modernisation project proved to be an enormous financial burden on GuySuCo and the government ignored advice from the company’s manager, Booker Tate to fire controversial Chinese contractor, CNTIC, according to the report of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the industry.

The prime suspect in the fatal New Year’s Day beating of Cane Grove cane harvester Deokumar Basdeo has managed to flee to the United States.