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SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon surged to record levels for the month of April, nearly doubling the area of forest removed in that month last year — the previous April record — preliminary government data showed on Friday, alarming environmental campaigners.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a state of emergency yesterday following a day of anti government strikes and protests over a worsening economic crisis.

Armed bandits on Thursday night attacked and robbed a 24-year-old Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldier at his South Amelia’s Ward, Linden home.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – At least 100 vehicles were destroyed on highways across northern Colombia in isolated attacks by the Clan del Golfo criminal gang, which announced an “armed strike” to protest the extradition of former leader Dairo Antonio Usuga, known as Otoniel, to the United States, the government said on Friday.

DAKAR,  (Reuters) – Anglo French oil company Perenco has declared force majeure for 150 days following a leak at its Cap Lopez oil terminal in Gabon last week, a company spokesperson said yesterday.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – A deadly explosion hit a well-known hotel in downtown Havana today, tearing a gash several floors high in the side of the building, killing at least 22 people and injuring upwards of 70, witnesses and state media said.

President Irfaan Ali and a high-level cabinet team held a brief meeting with the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro (left) at State House this morning.

A Corentyne businessman died after a car struck him along the Nigg Public Road this morning.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party lost control of traditional strongholds in London and suffered setbacks elsewhere in local elections, with voters punishing his government over a series of scandals.

SLIAC, Slovakia, (Reuters) – Germany will deliver seven self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said today, in a further reversal of a longtime policy not to send heavy weapons to war zones due to the country’s Nazi past.

(Trinidad Express) Montrose Road, Chaguanas, was blocked with burning tyres last night as residents protested the murder of businessman, Darryl Dindial, who was shot dead in a robbery.

GPL yesterday accused the local company which had been managing its generators of using cheaper parts which then required early replacement.

A taxi driver died yesterday morning after he lost control of the motorcar he was driving along the Windsor Forest Public Road, West Coast Demerara and two children were injured.

The Demerara Distillers Limited Group registered after-tax profit of $4.789b for 2021, 23% or $896m above the previous year.

Almost 62 percent of Guyanese normalize intimate partner violence (IPV) and agree that physical violence between couples is a private matter which should be handled by the couple themselves or their families, according to a Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) report.

The Guyana Press Association (GPA) yesterday raised concerns that a two-day media conference organised by the government promoted self-censorship under the guise of responsible reporting and that there was a conflation of journalism with other aspects of communication including social media influencing.

Family members of Suresh Dyal of Maria’s Lodge in Region Two are in a state of shock at the news of the man’s sudden death.

Police in Region Four can now view the live feed of movements in the community of Haslington New Scheme on the East Coast of Demerara following the recent installation of two high-end CCTV cameras.

Three men were on Tuesday busted in Lethem with 48 grammes of cannabis by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) in an operation aimed at combating narco-trafficking within various communities, including schools, the agency said.

Police are on the hunt for two bandits who attacked and robbed a La Grange, West Bank Demerara (WBD) family of over $500,000 in cash and other valuables on Wednesday night.