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Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill has raised the need for continued support to this country in relation to offshore helicopter operations among other areas.

Seven months after Stabroek News asked questions about it, the rehabilitation of a sunken part of the Thomas Lands road got underway yesterday.

Police Commander of Region 4A, Assistant Commissioner, Simon McBean says that motorcycles and bicycles are the main mode of transportation used to carry out robberies.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The United States has now recorded more than 1 million COVID-19 deaths, according to a Reuters tally, crossing a once-unthinkable milestone about two years after the first cases upended everyday life and quickly transformed it.

Kellorn Crighton, a 22-year-old of Byderabo Road, Bartica was yesterday arraigned at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court on the charge of murder.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Some Venezuelan public companies will offer a small portion of their shares on the local stock market, President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday, as a way of boosting resources and maintaining operations.

The trial of Donnel Trapp who is accused of the 2016 murder of Soesdyke Hill Foot farmer Anthony Breedy, is currently underway before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow at the High Court in Demerara.

JENIN, West Bank, (Reuters) – A prominent Palestinian American Al Jazeera reporter was shot dead during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank yesterday, and Israel said it was launching an investigation to try to determine who killed her.

ROAD TOWN, (Reuters) – Dozens of activists in the British Virgin Islands held a rally yesterday calling for the overseas territory to retain its autonomy, following a report by a commission of inquiry that said it should be governed directly from London.

A doctor attached to the George-town Public Hospital Corporation has been tapped by the Organization of American States (OAS) to receive an award in recognition of women in leadership in the Americas.

Nineteen-year-old Anasia McAllister was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $250,000 after 17.1 kilograms (kg) of marijuana was found under her bed last month.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – North Korea confirmed its first COVID-19 outbreak yesterday, calling it the “gravest national emergency” and ordering a national lockdown, with state media reporting an Omicron variant had been detected in Pyongyang.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro replaced his energy minister with a high ranking Economy Ministry official yesterday in the latest sign of political turmoil over fuel-price hikes by state run oil company Petrobras.

After managing to elude the police for more than a year, Samuel Gouveia, the convicted prisoner who escaped from the Mazaruni Prison, was recaptured by the police on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported 56 new cases of COVID-19 and four persons are in the ICU.

A man was yesterday charged with using threatening language towards his neighbour.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitian gang members raped women and girls and burned people alive during two weeks of turf wars near the capital of Port-au-Prince, a Haitian rights group said in a report detailing the bloody conflict.

A 48-year-old Waramadong man was arraigned for sexual activity with a child when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) After hacking Ellen Trishana Mohammed to death, almost severing her neck off in the process, a Guayaguayare man walked out onto the road with a bloodied cutlass, flagged down a passing police patrol vehicle and surrendered.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court yesterday barred the government from using a colonial-era sedition law, that critics say is often used to stifle dissent, pending a review.