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Minister of Sport Charles Ramson today said that he has been advised by the Amateur Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG)  that there was never any need by the country’s athletes at the CARIFTA Games for payment of COVID-19 testing and meals which the AAG was not in a position to handle from the support they received from the government and the Olympic association.

President Irfaan Ali will soon announce major developmental plans for the Albouystown community in the city, said Minister within the Ministry of Public Works, Deodat Indar.

KYIV/KHARKIV,  (Reuters) – Russia launched its long-awaited all-out assault on east Ukraine today, seizing its first town after unleashing thousands of troops in what Ukraine has described as the Battle of the Donbas, a campaign to take two provinces.

LAHORE, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – A Pakistani mob lynching of a Sri Lankan manager of a garment factory who was accused of blasphemy was an act against the Islamic religion, a court said in a detailed ruling today.

BANGKOK,  (Reuters) – The leader of one of Thailand’s biggest political parties apologised today over the conduct of a former executive accused by more than a dozen women of sexual abuse in what some activists have called the country’s first “MeToo” moment.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is to be in Barbados today  where he will participate in a series of talks with high-level U.S.

Civil society group Article 13 yesterday called for the immediate confirmation of Chancellor of the Judiciary, Yonette Cummings-Edwards and Chief Justice Roxane George and said that the onus is on President Irfaan Ali to initiate the process.

The 2018 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Ministry of Education and the GTU to activate a 2011 revolving fund for teachers’ housing  has been declared not “legally enforceable” by the Office of the Solicitor General.

Minister of Housing and Water Collin Croal tabled a bill at Wednesday’s sitting of the National Assembly to pave the way for persons who purchased duplexes or condominiums from the state to be able to access titles for them.

Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament Jermaine Figueira has formally submitted to the National Assembly the names of Pauline Chase, Joel Bhagwandin, Rajnarine Singh, Diana Rajcumar and Berkley Wickham to constitute the Public Procurement Commission (PPC).

Four cutlass-wielding bandits yesterday morning attacked and injured a 51-year-old security guard while he was on duty at the Gafoors Shopping Complex at Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara (EBD).

The Parliamentary Committee on Appointments on Wednesday formally presented to the National Assembly, the names of Dunstan Barrow and Clement Sealey for Director to the Board of the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) and member to the Public Accountability and Oversight Committee of the NRF, respectively.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Charles Ramson says the Opposition APNU+AFC should have been invited to the Republic Day flag-raising ceremony but said that he did not “follow through” with the planning of the event.

Vijaimal Raj, the man who is wanted over the murder of his wife one week ago at Foulis, East Coast Demerara (ECD) remains on the run.

One week after a wanted bulletin was issued for him, there has been no sign of Ryvan Shervin Francis, the suspect who is wanted in relation to the 2013 murder of Guyana Energy Agency field manager, Levoy Taljit.

A porkknocker who allegedly drowned at a creek at Obanna Backdam in Kuribrong, Potaro on April 15th, 2022 has been identified as Iftikhar Haniff Hussain.

LVIV/KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine said Russia had started an anticipated new offensive in the east of the country, with explosions reported all along the front lines as well as attacks in other regions.

Four new cases of COVID-19 were reported on the Ministry of Health’s daily dashboard yesterday.

WASHINGTON/CHICAGO,  (Reuters) – The Biden administration will no longer enforce a U.S.

Ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) on Sunday found a firearm with several rounds at the Plaza Complex on Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown.