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VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis urged Central American governments yesterday to find an urgent solution to help thousands of U.S.-bound

About 0730h. today, the police say that Kevon George, 28 years, of Bare Root, ECD, was involved in an argument with another man at Bare Root during which he was stabbed to his throat.

Investigations are being conducted into an incident that occurred about 2000h last night at the Vendors Arcade, Regent Street, Georgetown, in which vendor Teron Hubbard, 29 years, of East Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was shot to his buttocks while closing his stall, the police say.

A passenger of a Route 32 minibus was shot and killed while another is injured following an argument last evening on the Demerara Harbour Bridge.

A man is now dead after he was brutally stabbed by another during an alternation on Christmas Day in Albouystown.

A Crane man is dead and several other persons were injured after the car he was in collided with another on the Ruimzight Public Road, West Coast Demerara (WCD) early yesterday morning.

A Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara (WBD) man is nursing several wounds to his head and face after being stabbed by a drunken group of two men and a woman on Christmas day.

Despite much public criticism of the signing of an agreement with the government, Fedders Lloyd said it was forging ahead at the specialty hospital site at Liliendaal with construction expected to begin in full after the holidays and the hospital completed by the end of 2018.

There is a growing trend of parents posting photos on social media and other mediums, of their babies, toddlers and young children being fed alcoholic beverages.

President David Granger said on Friday that he would be working with the Minister of Health to ensure improved conditions at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) Maternity Ward, an undertaking that has been welcomed enthusiastically by the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU).

As Food for the Poor (FFTP) Guyana enters into its 25th year, the organisation is urging Guyanese to support its work so that its efforts to minister to the poor can be extended into the remote hinterland.

The prime suspect in the killing of Corentyne money changer Mohamed Fizal Mamood Baksh has fled the jurisdiction and is believed to be in Trinidad and Tobago.

Residents living in the vicinity of the Kitty Market are upset at the failure of City Hall to empty a garbage skip in the area.

Leader of the Organisation for the Victory of the People (OVP) Gerald Perreira has called on the major political parties to stay out of local government elections.

A Stewartville, West Coast Demerara woman is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital after she was involved in an early morning accident yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) Never one to shy away from controversy, Bounty Killer has hit out against Billboard Magazine for naming British singer Joss Stone ‘Reggae Artiste of The Year’.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Leaders of the church-based Sanctuary Movement vowed on Friday to offer their places of worship as refuge for immigrants facing deportation under an Obama administration crackdown on Central American families who entered the United States illegally.

CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinea President Alpha Conde named mining executive Mamady Youla as prime minister yesterday as part of a strategy to revive the West African nation’s ailing economy, the government announced.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – A UN-brokered deal to evacuate more than 2,000 Islamic State fighters and other militants from rebel-held suburbs of Damascus yesterday has been delayed after the killing of an insurgent leader, an organisation that monitors the Syrian war said.

ASUNCION/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – More than 100,000 people have had to evacuate from their homes in the bordering areas of Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina due to severe flooding in the wake of heavy summer rains brought on by El Niño, authorities said yesterday.