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The Police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of 35 year old Kevin Dawson of Lot 7 GEC Scheme, Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara, which occurred between June 3- 5 2017 at the said address.

The Police say they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred about 16:30hrs yesterday on the Bush Lot Public Road, West Coast Berbice that resulted in the death of motorcyclist Clifford Crandon, 43 of # 9 Village, West Coast Berbice.

The Police say they are investigating the murder of Roy Beckles, 45, a labourer of ‘B’ Field Squatting Area, Sophia, East Coast Demerara which occurred about 18:30hrs yesterday at the said address, allegedly committed by his 42 year old neighbour, who has not yet been apprehended.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British police named the third of the jihadis who killed seven people in a knife and van attack in London as Youssef Zaghba, 22, believed to be an Italian national of Moroccan descent.

The PPP today said that Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr Barton Scotland had disallowed a plan by the Economic Services Committee of Parliament for meetings in the sugar belt.

Representatives of the Society Against Sexual Orientation (SASOD) and Guyana Trans United (GTU) today met with Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs  Basil Williams, S.C,

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will not invoke executive privilege to block former FBI Director James Comey’s much-anticipated testimony before Congress this week, his first since Trump abruptly fired him early last month.

Close to 380 (335 scales, 43 masses and 2 rules) unapproved and unverified devices were seized from vendors from both the Bourda and Stabroek Markets in a raid conducted on Friday by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS)’ inspectors.

The 400 kilowatt Mabaruma solar farm which will provide an additional 17 hours of power to the 3,000 residents of Mabaruma in Region One is closer to realisation, as all tenders are at the evaluation stage.

LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – “Wonder Woman” is officially a box office hero.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain severed their ties with Qatar today, accusing it of supporting terrorism and opening up the worst rift in years among some of the most powerful states in the Arab world.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government is set to press ahead with a vote to elect a constituent assembly on July 30, an official said today, prompting the opposition to blast the body as a sham designed to keep embattled President Nicolas Maduro in power.

Caricom Chairman, Guyana’s President, David Granger today said that the regional body was “deeply dismayed” by the US decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.

(Trinidad Guardian) It was former chief of defence staff Kenrick Maharaj, “acting on his own volition”, who authorised Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi’s children to use the shooting range at Camp Cumuto where they were eventually photographed holding what appeared to be high-powered weapons.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Three attackers drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge on before stabbing revellers nearby on Saturday night, killing at least seven people in what Britain said was the work of Islamist militants engaged in a “new trend” of terrorism.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Attackers drove a van at high speed into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing people in the nearby Borough Market area of bars and restaurants on Saturday in what British authorities described as terrorist incidents.

Attorney Sase Gunraj today charged that there is a smear campaign against Prema Ramanah-Roopnarine who was recently fired as the Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and has been charged in relation to a probe of the Guyana Rice Development Board.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Banging empty pots and brandishing signs saying “only the government is growing fatter,” Venezuelan activists in Caracas on Saturday protested food shortages in the crisis-stricken country.

Police have detained a thirty year old man who is said to be of no fixed place of abode, in connection with the death of pensioner Fitzherbert Grimes, 88 years, of Hazel Street, Springlands, Corriverton, Berbice, who died several hours after being admitted a patient at the Skeldon Public Hospital yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Chief Justice Ivor Archie was yesterday defiant and dismissive in his response in the face of an unprecedented vote of no confidence in him by the Law Association and calls for him to step down.