Staff Editor

Residents of Victoria on the East Coast of Demerara this morning came out with placards protesting the deplorable state of their main access road and are calling on the Government to urgently intervene.

Dominica is reporting that at least seven persons were killed after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island on Tuesday.

LAHORE, (Reuters) – Batsman Khalid Latif has been handed a five-year ban for his role in a spot-fixing scandal during this year’s Pakistan Super League (PSL), the country’s cricket board said on Wednesday.

  MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – A major earthquake of magnitude 7.1 struck central Mexico today, killing at least 60 people in several states, toppling buildings in the heavily populated capital and forcing thousands of people into the streets in panic.

At approximately 2 am yesterday; the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) says inclement weather disrupted a number of circuits within the Demerara Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS).

LONDON, (Reuters) – An unbeaten century from Jonny Bairstow helped England stroll to a seven-wicket victory over West Indies in the opening match of their one-day series at Old Trafford on Tuesday.

  UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump today vowed to “totally destroy” North Korea unless Pyongyang backs down from its nuclear challenge, mocking North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a “rocket man” on a suicide mission.

  ZURICH, (Reuters) – World soccer body FIFA said on Tuesday that the president of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU), Gordon Derrick, had been banned for six years from all soccer-related activities for violating several articles of FIFA’s ethical code.

  WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the 2016 election, CNN reported on Monday.

PONCE, Puerto Rico,  (Reuters) – The fourth major Atlantic hurricane of the year, Maria, strengthened into a rare Category 5 storm, as it churned through the eastern Caribbean, bearing down on the tiny island nation of Dominica while on a likely collision course with the U.S.

  UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump criticized the United Nations for bloated bureaucracy and mismanagement on his first visit today to U.N.

PARIS, (Reuters) – A British endurance cyclist has smashed the Guinness World Record for the fastest circumnavigation of the planet on a bicycle, riding 18,000 miles (29,000km) in under 80 days.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) says it wishes to inform members of the public that a meeting was held today between the Acting President Moses Nagamootoo, Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Clive Thomas and Chief Executive Officer, Errol Hanoman, to discuss urgent cash flow relative to wages, salaries and other payments at GuySuCo.

A Police Lance Corporal who was found above the legal alcohol limit following a fatal accident last night, on the Ogle Public Road, ECD.,

A 77-year-old businessman is believed to be dead after a fire gutted his home early this morning.

Mashramani 2018 was on Saturday launched in Linden, Region Ten under the theme “Let’s Cooperate and Celebrate Republic 48” at the Georgetown Bus Park.

  WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States could remain in the Paris climate accord under the right conditions, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday, signaling a shift in tone from the Trump administration, which angered allies with its decision to pull out of the agreement.

    (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Maria is likely to reach hurricane strength today, prompting U.S.

The Guyana Police Force is mourning the loss of one of its members who died at about 7.30 pm yesterday on the Unity Old Road, East Coast Demerara.

Sixteen Police Officers from the Guyana Police Force (GPF) on Friday graduated from a ‘Capacity Building Training in Strategic Planning’ course at the GPF Training Centre, Camp Road.