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A Republic Park man was yesterday remanded to prison after he made an appearance before a city court on a gun possession charge.

PARIS (Reuters) – French jets from the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier struck Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria yesterday while Britain offered France the use of an air base in Cyprus to hit the militants group behind the Paris attacks.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – President-elect Mauricio Macri vowed yesterday to get Argen-tina’s stalled economy moving again but refrained from laying out specific measures until he gets to know the “real” state of the nation’s accounts.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A 5.5 magnitude quake hit Mexico City yesterday, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), shaking buildings and forcing office towers to be evacuated, although there were no initial reports of damage or injuries.

SEOUL (Reuters) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he was discussing with North Korea the dates for his visit to the isolated state but no decision has been made in his first public comments on the trip since news reports last week said he would go soon.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) will stage a Full Scale Emergency Exercise on Wednesday, November 25, 2015 involving a simulated ‘Aircraft Crash’ on the Aerodrome, a release from the airport said today.

Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson today met with a team from The Netherlands for a “holistic” approach to the question of drainage and irrigation.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s President-Elect, Mauricio Macri, said today he would seek Venezuela’s suspension from South America’s Mercosur trade bloc because of accusations of rights abuses committed by President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government.

The APNU+AFC government will soon be moving to Parliament with a bill to widen the definition of a coroner.

PARIS, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron said in Paris today that he was convinced the UK should carry out military air strikes alongside France and other partners in Syria in an effort to defeat Islamic State.

Although no formal decision has yet been made, APNU and the AFC are likely to contest local government elections (LGE) next year as an alliance and Deputy Mayor of George-town Patricia Chase-Green has signalled her interest in running for the Mayoral post.

The Kaieteur National Park authorities have decided to put temporary restrictions in place at the world famous Kaieteur Falls following a second suicide there in three months.

Australian company Troy Resources Limited yesterday announced that it has produced its first gold bar from the Karouni gold project in Region Seven.

The Government of Guyana yesterday declared its support for Antigua and Barbuda’s candidate for the position of Commonwealth Secretary General (SG), Guyana-born Sir Ronald Sanders.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure is seeking an injunction to stop ongoing construction at Celina’s Atlantic resort after several cease orders were ignored over the past months.

Police are investigating the shooting of a minibus driver yesterday by a passenger at the corner of David and Sherriff streets, Kitty in the early evening.

A Bakewell supervisor in Berbice was chopped and robbed on Saturday night as he was about to make his way home.

Over $55M in contracts have been cleared to furnish the $1 billion Kato Secondary School, in Region Eight, including the student dormitories and the living quarters for teachers.

The High Court recently granted an injunction restraining a miner at the centre of a village complaint from mining or attempting to mine on any part of Isseneru’s titled land, the Ministry of the Presidency said yesterday.

A strategy identifying key actions to be undertaken in order to cope with the effects of climate change in Guyana has been unveiled and is open for public comment.