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The Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown (M&CC) is taking up its traffic mandate.

Minister of Governance, with responsibility for Natural Resources and the Environment, Raphael Trotman, yesterday, signed a US$300,000 grant with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) on the side lines of the United Nations Frame-work Convention on Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) in Paris, France.

A fire, suspected to be arson, last week Monday gutted a two-storey apartment building at Rasville in Georgetown, destroying the homes of 27 people, including children, and causing millions in losses.

A businessman was on Tuesday charged with shooting at two policemen and a civilian but his lawyer told a city court that he thought he was being robbed.

Five Cuban nationals were on Tuesday each fined $100,000 after pleading guilty to charges that they forged American passports and attempted to use them to leave the country through the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.

Ashmali Alves, 22, a typist, on Tuesday found herself in a city court charged with stealing her ex-boyfriend’s gold chain.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court yesterday suspended impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff until it rules on the validity of a secret ballot that stacked a congressional committee with opponents seeking to oust the leftist leader.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Israeli politicians and more than 370,000 Britons urged their governments yesterday to bar Donald Trump from their countries after the Republican presidential front-runner said Muslims should be denied entry into the United States.

PARIS, (Reuters) – A week and a half of talks produced a slimmer but still-troubled version of a climate deal yesterday, with negotiators from 195 countries divided over how far to go in curbing global temperature rises – and how to pay for it.

(Trinidad Express) The Central Bank has responded to the scathing criticism over Governor Jwala’s Rambarran’s decision to publicly disclose the names of big business and the amount of foreign exchange they consume.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, (Reuters) – Dozens of people were killed in fighting at the airport in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar after an overnight attack by Taliban insurgents while a key district in neighbouring Helmand province fell to the insurgents, officials said yesterday.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced an imminent cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday after his ruling Socialist Party was crushed in legislative elections, but he vowed to veto opposition plans for an amnesty law for jailed politicians.

Balram Singh was this afternoon sentenced to 80 years in jail after a 12-member jury found him guilty of murdering taxi driver Bhomeshwar Sukhdeo.

President David Granger met with the Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo at the Ministry of the Presidency today to determine the Judge who would be appointed to perform the functions of the Office of the Chief Justice during the leave of absence of Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang.

Investigations are being conducted into a fatal accident that occurred at about 0030h today at Good Hope Public Road, ECD, and which resulted in the death of truck-driver Yougraj Singh, 50 years, of Coverden, EBD, the police say.

Two men are dead following a shootout between police and bandits at Pioneer Lane, South Ruimveldt early this morning.

The forensic audit report commissioned by the APNU+AFC government of controversial holding company NICIL has recommended criminal and/or disciplinary action against all those responsible for the interception of state revenues totalling $26.858 billion in violation of the constitution.

The Guyana Defence Force officer and three other men held on Saturday with illegal guns and ammunition were yesterday faced with charges.

Twenty-two companies from around the world have submitted bids to conduct a feasibility study and design for the new bridge across the Demerara River.

The future of the Guyana-Norway forest protection agreement which has been mired in uncertainty was discussed at a meeting in Paris, France yesterday between the two countries and there was agreement that US$80m which had been earmarked for the Amaila hydro-power project could go to other energy initiatives in the event that the project doesn’t go ahead.