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Small business owners came out in their numbers to showcase their skills and products at Guyana’s first Business Expo, held this year in lieu of the annual GuyExpo.

NAMUGONGO, Uganda (Reuters) – Pope Francis travelled to Uganda’s holiest shrine yesterday, paying tribute to 19th century Christian martyrs killed for their faith, including for protecting young boys in the royal court from abuse by the king.

PARIS (Reuters) – Almost all governments have outlined plans for fighting global warming beyond 2020 in a positive sign for resolving a string of obstacles at a UN climate summit starting tomorrow, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said yesterday.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian police are hunting for a Sao Paulo Santa Claus who kicked off the Christmas shopping season by stealing a helicopter.

Sacks of USAID wheat flour being loaded into a Guyana National Service (GNS) vehicle in March of 1975 prompted a query from the US Embassy here to Washington as the GNS was not an authorized recipient.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Hundreds of Cubans protested at the Ecuadorean embassy in Cuba on Friday, a day after the Andean nation announced they would need visas to enter the country as of December 1.

LUXOR, Egypt (Reuters) – A British Egyptologist said yesterday he would conduct further investigations into whether the tomb of Ancient Egypt’s boy-king Tutankhamun contains passages to a hidden chamber, including what he believes is the last resting place of Queen Nefertiti.

Courts Guyana Inc. will on Monday unveil and introduce its newest arm to the Guyanese market – Courts Optical Guyana, which will be operating from our Courts Main Street store.

Amid growing controversy over its clinching of a MoU for the Specialty Hospital with a previous bidder, the Ministry of Finance this evening defended its actions stating that they are consistent with the Procurement Act.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Expressing what has become regularly repeated frustration on the issue, President Barack Obama said today the United States needs to “do something” to make it harder for criminals to get guns after a shooting in Colorado killed three people and injured nine.

A forensic audit report on the billion-dollar Carifesta X, hosted here in 2008, has found that there was no budget, the accounting was badly handled, there were transactions without tender board input, controversial government holding company NICIL provided significant financing and $26m is still outstanding to various creditors.

Mere days before a final report is to be handed over, a petition for the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (CoI) to sit for two more weeks so as to complete its work was on Thursday handed over to government.

Government plans to seek pre-commercial production payments from oil company ExxonMobil to fund a number of projects, Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman says.

Guyana’s first ever Business Exposition opened yesterday and saw a promise by Business Minister Dominic Gaskin to make doing business in the country easier.

A teen is now dead and another youth is hospitalised with injuries after they collided with a pick-up truck in the city on Thursday night.

A young Essequibo Coast man, who was riding his motorcycle while under the influence of alcohol, is now dead after he ran off the road at Exmouth.

Windsor Forest logger Ravindra ‘Ravi’ Persaud was killed on Thursday morning after he lost control of his laden truck, which overturned on the Mabura Road and pinned him underneath.

The body of a man, clad only in a long-sleeved shirt and underwear, washed ashore behind the Marriott Hotel at Kingston yesterday afternoon.

Several labour violations and poor working conditions were unearthed yesterday when Junior Social Protec-tion Minister Simona Broomes and officials from the Labour Department conducted a surprise inspection of stores in New Amsterdam.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) on Thursday called off a strike by sugar workers, following a special meeting of its General Council.