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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.

Noel Anthony Fredericks, the Mainstay resident who was found dead late last month, more than a week after he was last seen died as a result of compression injuries to the neck compounded by blunt trauma to the head, an autopsy confirmed.

With record keeping having been identified as one of the challenges facing accounting agencies, Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman, Jermaine Figueira, has recommended to the Region Three Regional Democratic Council (RDC) that they commence digital record-keeping.

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has devastated hundreds of hospitals and other medical institutions and left doctors without drugs to tackle cancer or the ability to perform surgery, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

The Houston, Texas-based Bilateral Chamber of Commerce and the Private Sector Commission (PSC) have pledged to leverage their combined resources to boost economic relations between the United States and Guyana.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – The British Virgin Islands yesterday swore in Natalio Wheatley as the British overseas territory’s new premier following the removal of ex-premier Andrew Fahie, who was arrested on drug charges in Miami last week.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Authorities in Fiji have seized a $300 million yacht of Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov at the request of the United States, the U.S.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Dairo Antonio Usuga, the accused leader of Colombia’s Clan del Golfo criminal group, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s son Laureano, an influential figure in the country’s leftist government, has reached out quietly to the Biden administration in recent months seeking to re-engage with the United States, according to people familiar with the matter.

Fifteen new cases of the COVID-19 virus were reported yesterday by the Ministry of Health.

The High Commission of India in Guyana collaborated with the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha to celebrate the occasion of the 184th Indian Arrival Day at the Indian Arrival monument in Palmyra, Berbice yesterday.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – A Mexican journalist was found dead in the northwestern state of Sinaloa yesterday, authorities said, marking the ninth death of a media worker in a unprecedentedly bloody year for the country which has drawn international scrutiny.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Petrobras posted a first-quarter net income that beat forecasts yesterday, just minutes after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro railed against the state-run oil company’s profitability, saying its executives had no sympathy for ordinary people.

Jair Bolsonaro, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, is to pay an official visit to Guyana tomorrow at the invitation of President Irfaan Ali.

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Scores of Ukrainian civilians including women and children remained trapped today in underground bunkers at a steel works in the ruined city of Mariupol, although President Vladimir Putin said Russia was ready to allow them to leave safely.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has recovered more than $23 million stolen from Nigeria by the country’s late military dictator Sani Abacha, it said today, the latest in a series of similar recoveries around the world.

 (Reuters) – Gun battles between rival gangs in Port-au-Prince have killed dozens in the past two weeks and forced thousands to flee their homes, Haiti’s civil protection authority and a U.N.

RIO DE JANEIRO/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director last year told senior Brazilian officials that President Jair Bolsonaro should stop casting doubt on his country’s voting system ahead of the October election, sources told Reuters.

(Reuters) – Almost three times as many people have died as a result of COVID-19 as the official data show, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report, the most comprehensive look at the true global toll of the pandemic so far.

Police are investigating a fatal incident which occurred at about 4.14 am today  on the Windsor Forest Public Road, West Coast Demerara involving motor car #PSS 3117 owned by Naresh Singh of Block AA, Plum Park, Sophia, Georgetown and driven by Kelvin Ghisiawan, age unknown, of Samatta Point, Grove, East Bank Demerara.