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Police are investigating an incident that resulted in the death of Owen Smith, a 31-year-old gold miner from Kaburi Village which occurred at about 2.30 pm on Thursday at 10 Miles Backdam, Issano, Middle Mazaruni River.

-Presidential Commission on non-communicable diseases The state must improve its efforts in relation to the mental health of diabetics.

Police are probing an accident which occurred at about 10.10 pm on Thursday  on the #61 Village Public Road in Corentyne, Berbice that resulted in the death of Mark Autar, a 41-year-old man.

Two serving Guyana Police Force members are to be charged after the Regional Police Division Commander, Simon McBean, receives a “technical response” on Kevin Fiedtkou’s abduction.

President Irfaan Ali accepted Letters of Credence from the High Commissioner of Jamaica to Guyana, Natalie Campbell-Rodrigues at a  ceremony this week at the Office of the President.

A high-level Canadian delegation led by High Commissioner of Canada to Guyana, Sébastien Sigouin concluded a  four-day visit here on November 15, 2024 during which a range issues were discussed including potential investment in transportation networks and medical oxygen.

The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), in coordination with the DEA Georgetown Country Office, conducted two intensive training courses on Basic and Advanced Narcotic Investigations from November 4 to November 15, 2024.

The Ministry of Housing and Water’s CH&PA achieved its target yesterday with 600 persons in Linden, Region Ten becoming first-time landowners in the new Wismar Housing Development.

-some residents flooded The spring tide yesterday afternoon swept aside the Abary sluice door in West Berbice causing flooding of some homes and stop logs were to be placed last evening after the tide receded.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday for the first time in nearly two years as the German leader gears up for a snap election and Europe waits to hear Donald Trump’s plan for ending the war in Ukraine.

(Reuters) – Protesters stormed the parliament of the Russian-backed breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia yesterday and demanded the resignation of its leader over an unpopular investment agreement with Moscow.

The Ministry of Health, in partnership with Northwell Health, Vanderbilt University, and the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), yesterday concluded its intensive five-day Emergency Medicine Training Workshop with a formal certificate handing-over ceremony.

(Reuters) – T-Mobile’s TMUS.O network was among the systems hacked in a damaging Chinese cyber-espionage operation that gained entry into multiple U.S.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday announced that the team from Operation Walk Maryland has arrived in the country and knee and hip replacements are to be done.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A failed bomb attack on Brazil’s Supreme Court looks set to re-unite Brasilia against far-right radicalism and scuttle a possible comeback by former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is fighting a court decision to bar him from the ballot.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson said yesterday that a congressional ethics panel should not release a report examining allegations of sexual misconduct against Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) The United States and Trinidad and Tobago governments are pressing full steam ahead with the establishment of a vetted unit for the T&T Police Service (TTPS).

Ruby Mingo was born on 8th November 1919, on the Corentyne Coast.

LIMA, (Reuters) – With Donald Trump’s imminent return to the U.S.

Eighteen employees of the West Demerara Regional Hospital in Vreed-en-Hoop, Region Three are participating in a Joint Workplace Safety and Health Committee Training Programme at the health facility’s conference room.