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LONDON,  (Reuters) – Mongolia’s government and a coalition of partners have signed a nature finance agreement aimed at protecting 35.6 million acres (144,000 square km) of the country’s lands and waters, including the world’s last great tract of temperate grassland.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires yesterday in an anti-government march against budget cuts to public universities, the biggest protest yet against President Javier Milei’s painful austerity measures.

Ray Anthony Persaud, a 28-year-old businessman of Lot 14, 4th Avenue, Bartica, Essequibo River was charged yesterday with the unlawful possession of a firearm without a licence and unlawful possession of ammunition without a  licence.

NEW YORK, (Reuters)  – The first witness in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, testified yesterday that he used his supermarket tabloid to suppress stories that might have hurt  Trump’s 2016 presidential bid.

President of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr Hyginus ‘Gene’ Leon, has resigned with “immediate effect” from the regional financial institution.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) –  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday he is willing to receive an envoy from the United Nations’ human rights office, after his government asked staff to leave the South American country earlier this year.

Dexter Griffith, a 54-year-old cook of Lot 40 Vive La Force, Demerara River was jailed for one ear on Monday for the possession of 199 grams of marijuana.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela unity opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez will appear as three parties’ candidate on the ballot for July presidential elections, after two additional parties said today they were able to list him in their slots.

On Sunday 21st April 2024, Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) Officers conducted an operation on High Street, Georgetown, where they intercepted a motor car.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – U.N. rights chief Volker Turk said today that he was “horrified” by the destruction of the Nasser and Al Shifa medical facilities in Gaza and reports of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies there, according to a spokesperson.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three Pan American Health Organization experts, who have been selected to probe the deaths of babies at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital, have arrived in the country and already engaged North West Regional Health Authority (NWRHA) officials as part of their initial investigation.

-15-year-old in ICU Region Six has so far recorded 440 dengue cases for the year with eleven in the last twenty-four hours and a 15-year-old is hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.

A 23-year-old Sophia labourer was fatally shot on Sunday night after he resisted the efforts of two men to rob him of his motorcycle in front of his home.

-leading figures from former Omai Gold Mines Ltd have role Reunion Gold Corporation (RGD) of Canada and G Mining Ventures (GMIN) have struck a deal for gold mining in Oko West in Region Seven.

By Femi Harris-Smith Pacific Development Inc (PDI) has been ordered to refund a woman $6 million dollars for construction of a house it promised, after a court found that the land earmarked for the erection had not been granted by the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA). 

Public Accounts Committee [PAC] member Ganesh Mahipaul has accused the Government of deliberately cancelling yesterday’s sitting of the PAC because it is aware of the damning revelations contained in the 2020, 2021 and 2022 Auditor General’s Reports.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) –  California will conclude a two-year investigation into Exxon and the fossil fuel industry’s role in causing global plastic pollution by summer and decide if it will file a lawsuit against oil giant, its attorney general told Reuters yesterday.

The Ministry of Public Works yesterday said that the control tower at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri received a distress call at 15:20 hours yesterday, alerting authorities of a medical emergency onboard AirEuropa’s flight bound to Spain from Peru.

Chief Labour Officer [CLO] Dhaneshwar Deonarine yesterday declined to comment on scathing criticism from Justice Sandil Kissoon for not discharging his functions in relation to the four-week-long strike by teachers.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) says the recent teachers strike has underlined that Guyanese from all races and communities can come together on issues.