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The Ministry of Education (MoE) on Friday advised all untrained teachers in the system to immediately enroll at the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE).

United States-based Guyanese singer and former Hadfield Street, Lodge resident Curt Johnson was gunned down while leaving his brother’s birthday celebrations in New Jersey in the wee hours of yesterday, his relatives say.

Ninety-nine percent of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) employees who will be transferred to the new customer service business, Arrowhead Communications Incorporated by next month are contracted workers who will be paid all their benefits, GPTWU President, Harold Shepherd said.

Forty-five new cases of COVID-19 were reported yesterday. The Ministry of Health’s daily dashboard said that two persons are in the ICU.

Months after it hurriedly shut down new generators at its  Garden of Eden generating facility, Guyana Power and Light (GPL) engineers have managed to pinpoint the possible cause having analyzed data collected and are now working on a solution.

BUFFALO, N.Y.,  (Reuters) – A white teenager who killed 10 people in a racist attack at a western New York grocery store in a Black neighbourhood had been taken into custody last year and given a mental health evaluation after making a threat at his high school, authorities said.

RUSKA LOZOVA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russia pummelled positions in the east of Ukraine yesterday, its defence ministry said, as it sought to encircle Ukrainian forces in the battle for Donbas and fend off a counteroffensive around the strategic Russian-controlled city of Izium.

Responding to calls by local Attorney-at-Law Elizabeth Deane-Hughes to postpone the planned public consultation for the gas-to-power project until the expiry of the mandatory 60 days comments/objections period, President of ExxonMobil Guyana, Alistair Routledge has said that the sessions are intended to be complementary to the review process and should proceed.

(Trinidad Guardian) An aggressive and hard-line approach has been taken to root out rogue officers within the prison system.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduran authorities arrested accused cartel leader Herlinda Bobadilla yesterday, following an extradition request for her and her sons by the United States.

In celebration of the 50th anniversary since the establishment of bilateral relations between Guyana and Cuba, the Cuban Embassy in collaboration with the Global Friendships Foundation will be hosting a ‘Fiesta Cubana’ on September 24-25, 2022 in Georgetown.

BERN,  (Reuters) – Switzerland’s fabled neutral status is about to face its biggest test in decades, with the defence ministry tilting closer to Western military powers in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Five Guyana Prison Service officers recently underwent training in the U.S.

The Anna Regina Police Station was commissioned today by Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson will seek broad support for an application to join NATO tomorrow, she announced today after her party dropped its long-standing opposition to membership in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Russia has probably lost around a third of the ground forces it deployed to Ukraine and its offensive in the Donbas region “has lost momentum and fallen significantly behind schedule”, British military intelligence said today.

BERN,  (Reuters) – Switzerland’s fabled neutral status is about to face its biggest test in decades, with the defence ministry tilting closer to Western military powers in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The upsurge in drunk driving and accidents has caused the  government to propose amendments to the Motor Vehicle and Road Traffic Act to pave the way for the introduction of motor manslaughter and causing grievous bodily harm when driving a vehicle under the influence.

-limestone to be imported for soil A trial cultivation of soya beans in the Berbice intermediate savannahs has found it “very feasible” since two crops per year are possible as opposed to only one in northern Brazil and it is expected to result in a seven per cent reduction in the import of the crop for stock feed this year, local investor and businessman David Fernandes says.

The investigation into a shooting at Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara (ECD) has now shifted to murder as the victim succumbed yesterday morning to his injuries while a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).