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Investigations are being conducted by the police into a fire that occurred at about 0950h.

Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson today said that the thousands of persons from Timehri North, which the previous administration wanted to displace, will no longer have to move to facilitate the expansion of the airport runway, GINA reported.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadian Prime Minister Freundel Stuart met today with Jorge Arreaza, Vice President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon and Tourism Minister Cathy Hughes recently led a small delegation to Canada, in order to update Guyanese in the Diaspora of the Government’s plans and objectives, GINA said.

Aeshwar Deonarine, Deputy Chief Executive Officer (DCEO Administration) of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL), is seeking time to repay the $27.8M, which was transferred from the PetroCaribe fund to his personal bank account.

A team of ranks from the SWAT Unit has been dispatched to “B” Division (Berbice) to support the Division in its policing strategy, the police said today.

NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Australia captain Michael Clarke will retire after the final Ashes test against England this month, the cricketer announced on Saturday.

An eighty-member contingent will be representing Guyana at the 2015 Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) in Haiti, GINA said today.

The Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, today slammed the Guyana Times for what he said were “absurd” figures on planned allowances for ministers.

The US government is now moving forward with the process for the sentencing of fraud convict, Edul Ahmad by the Court of the Eastern District of New York.

The police say they are conducting investigations into a robbery/murder that occurred at the Jade Stone Chinese Restaurant, Mandela Avenue, Georgetown.

(Trinidad Express) Surinamese national Edmund Quin­cy Muntslag, who was wanted in the United States, was extradited to that country from Trinidad and Tobago yesterday, to face char­ges of narcotics trafficking.

Today, August 6, 2015, the Central Immigration Office, Timehri, grounded an Insel Air carrier, which was scheduled to depart CJIA at o6:45 hrs, a statement from the CJIA said this evening.

Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix recently held talks with US Chargé d’ Affaires to Guyana, Bryan Hunt and among the areas discussed was the production of sensitive documents such as birth certificates.

The Ministry of Business today issued a statement saying that there would be no GuyExpo this year.

At about 1145h. yesterday, the police say that a mining pit caved in at Toroparu Backdam, Cuyuni River, which resulted in the death of miner Omet Samuels, 38 years, of Queenstown, Essequibo, who was trapped beneath.

NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – A rampant Stuart Broad took eight wickets as England ripped out shell-shocked Australia for 60 in an extraordinary and dramatic start to the fourth Ashes test at Trent Bridge today.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysia confirmed early on Thursday that a piece of a wing washed up on an Indian Ocean island beach last week was from Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, the first trace of the plane found since it vanished last year with 239 people on board.

Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman today denied that there will be astronomical pay increases for government ministers and with additional allowances.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC-Former president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Captain Peter Short, has passed away, according to media reports in Barbados.