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At the conclusion of a four-day review, the Dutch Risk Reduction (DRR) Team on Thursday presented its preliminary recommendations on Guyana’s drainage system and emphasised the need for a technical and managerial upgrade.

The Women and Gender Equality Commission (WGEC) is taking the wheel in the fight to end sexual harassment in the workplace and chairperson Indra Chandarpal says in addition to a public education campaign, the commission will be pushing for the establishment of relevant legislation.

Roraima Airways Inc on Friday afternoon together with the rest of the aviation community honoured the late Captain Alvin Winston Clarke as they greeted his body, which was flown home from Canada.

Government has remained mum on the retreat that is slated for today, when Cabinet and members of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the sugar industry are expected to meet.

Roxanne Lawrie, a Charity vendor who police say deals drugs to school children, was on Thursday charged over cocaine and marijuana found near her stall.

Patrick Anthony Balgobin yesterday pleaded not guilty to murdering Rudolph Moonsammy when his trial began before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow and a 12-member jury at the High Court, in Georgetown.

The prosecution yesterday closed its case against Anthony Morrison, who is on trial for the murder of his common-law wife, Donna Thomas.

A date has been set for the commencement of the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Beverley Persaud and Oswald Yaw, who are accused of killing block maker Nathan Andrew Persaud.

A brain infection has been given as the cause of death for Michelle Bristol, who collapsed and died at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport on Tuesday.

The Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) will be holding meetings on the upcoming local government elections within all of the 62 Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) and the nine Municipalities where the polls are to be contested.

A workshop and seminar on the feasibility of using cold mix asphalt in infrastructural road works was hosted by the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation (DHBC), under the auspices of the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI), on Wednesday, at the Pegasus Hotel.

Three Lindeners were yesterday charged with stealing a total of just under $1 million in items in separate break-ins.

Baroness Patricia Scotland has been elected to be the next Commonwealth Secretary-General, making her the first woman that will take up the post.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., (Reuters) – Police arrested a gunman who stormed a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Colorado Springs yesterday and opened fire with a rifle in an attack that left three people dead and nine others injured, authorities said.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff yesterday called off a trip to Japan and Vietnam to save money after ordering a budget freeze of 10 billion reais ($2.60 billion) that threatens to grind the government to a halt.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal and state governments plan to sue the owners of the Samarco iron ore miner for 20 billion reais ($5.24 billion)in damages caused by the burst of a tailings dam, Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira told reporters yesterday.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said yesterday the whole world should condemn the killing of a Venezuelan opposition activist ahead of the country’s elections next week.

SABANETA, Venezuela, (Reuters) – In 2010, late socialist leader Hugo Chavez knelt down in the backyard of his childhood home in Venezuela’s lush plains to plant an orange tree named ‘revolution’ as red-shirted supporters cheered and cameras flashed.

(Jamaica Observer) Digicel has confirmed the release of 51 expatriate members of its team with expectations that the positions will be taken up by locals.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – A World Trade Organization dispute panel ruled against Colombia’s tariff on textiles, clothes and shoes yesterday, dismissing its argument that the measures were needed to fight -money laundering.