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The long-awaited Local Government Commission is expected to be put in place in March next year, Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan says.

Travelling from Barbados to the United States last Thursday, a 26-year-old Middle Road, La Penitence beautician was nabbed in Atlanta, Georgia, US with 5 kilogrammes of cocaine in her luggage.

The Essequibo River island of Wakenaam is to benefit from ferry services on an extra day and the trip will now run directly to Parika instead of stopping at Leguan.

A Melanie Damishana shopkeeper has lost a kidney after being shot by a bandit yesterday, the third attack on him in a year.

In keeping with a promise he made to the residents of Lusignan, President David Granger yesterday handed over a $2M cheque to the Good Hope-Lusignan Learning Centre to support its work in 2016.

Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan says government will appeal a court decision that the termination of a contract awarded to BK International to construct and manage the Haags Bosch landfill site at Eccles was hasty and unfair.

Guyana-born US businessman Edul Ahmad who pleaded guilty in 2012 to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud is now scheduled to be sentenced on March 4, 2016 in a New York court.

The bandit who was shot in his eye by police after he was caught on the scene of a robbery in Grove two weeks ago has been slapped with five charges and remanded to prison.

Sixteen representatives of several Rastafarian organisations on Wednesday met with the Attorney General Basil Williams at his invitation in the AG’s Chambers and a key issue discussed was the decriminalisation of two ounces of marijuana for personal use.

The Ministry of Public Security is seeking public feedback on the motor vehicle window tinting policy.

Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach was last night declared the winner of the 2015 Miss Universe pageant but only after an unprecedented blunder by host, comedian Steve Harvey led to Miss Colombia Ariadna Guiterrez being crowned the queen.

The Rotary Club of Georgetown on Thursday inducted President David Granger as an honorary member of the Club during a courtesy call, at the Ministry of the Presidency.

MADRID, (Reuters) – A historically fragmented vote in Spanish elections yesterday heralded weeks of talks to form a coalition government, with neither Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s conservatives nor left-wing parties winning a clear mandate to govern.

First Lady, Sandra Granger yesterday afternoon joined residents and members of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club to launch their first ever ‘Christmas Village and Christmas Tree Light-up’ at the Rose Hall Town Primary School, Berbice, Region Six.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – An Israeli air strike killed Samir Qantar, a Hezbollah militant leader, in Damascus on Saturday evening, the Lebanese group and Syrian state media said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Two men including an oil equipment supply firm executive have been arrested on charges related to an alleged scheme to corruptly secure energy contracts from Venezuela’s state-owned energy company, the U.S.

Residents of the Uncle Eddie’s Home on Friday benefited from the implantation of dentures, as the Ministry of Public Health and the Cheddi Jagan Dental Centre took their Christmas cheer to the institution, GINA said.

At about 2130h on Saturday, Nazeema McLean, 22 years, of Rainbow City, Mackenzie, was at Co-op Crescent, Linden, when a youth snatched her handbag containing her cell phone, house keys and cash and attempted to escape, the police said yesterday.

MANCHESTER, N.H., (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton backed elements of President Barack Obama’s strategy to fight Islamic State militants in a debate on Saturday, drawing criticism from all sides for saying “we now finally are where we need to be” in Syria.

At about 0040h on Saturday, ranks of a police patrol under ‘Operation Dragnet’ searched a man   at Princes Street, Georgetown, in whose possession was found an unlicensed .32 revolver and 19 matching rounds.