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Acknowledging the absence of former Permanent Secretaries (PS) and Regional Executive Officers (REO) from sittings of the Public Accounts Committee, government member Gail Teixeira on Monday said that the committee must consider what sort of action it must take to put a stop to the absenteeism.

Two Sophia cousins are nursing gunshot wounds at the Georgetown Public Hospital following an  incident in North Sophia in the wee hours of Saturday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Global Citizen, an international non-profit aiming to help end poverty, said yesterday it plans to launch six funds of up to $1 billion each focused on generating environmental and social impact in the developing world.

The Ministry of Tourism is seeking expressions of interest for bed and breakfast packages for the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) matches scheduled for September 16 to October 2 this year.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Indians have the freedom to practice their faith and there is no growing intolerance between religious communities, the country’s minority affairs minister said in an interview published yesterday amid spurts of religious riots in various parts of the country.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s justice ministry said yesterday that federal police had captured the No.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The Archbishop of Canterbury has condemned a British plan to send tens of thousands of asylum seekers to the East African country of Rwanda, saying the policy did not stand “the judgment of God”.

Premnauth Persaud, a 54-year-old businessman also known as ‘Greens Man’ died after he was struck down on Saturday night by a motorcyclist at First Avenue, Bartica.

The Chinese Embassy in Georgetown has voiced concern over a Project Syndicate column in Stabroek News authored by former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo in which he argues that American ambiguity over the defence of Taiwan must come to an end.

Bartica businessman Premnauth Persaud, 54, died yesterday after he was struck by a motorcycle.

Yesterday, Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers conducted an operation at a residence in Bel Air Avenue, Lamaha Gardens  and found two parcels of cocaine and an amount of ganja.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian soldiers appeared to defy a Russian ultimatum to lay down their arms today in the pulverised port of Mariupol which Moscow said its forces had almost completely seized in what would be its biggest prize of the nearly two-month war.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Indians have the freedom to practice their faith and there is no growing intolerance between religious communities, the country’s minority affairs minister said in an interview published today amid spurts of religious riots in various parts of the country.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The Archbishop of Canterbury has condemned a British plan to send tens of thousands of asylum seekers to the East African country of Rwanda, saying the policy did not stand “the judgment of God”.

(Trinidad Guardian) The ex-wife of Coastguardsman Kester Williams, Janelle Yard-Blackman, is urging women to leave violent relationships immediately.

(Trinidad Express) Asha Samaroo is expected to face a magistrate for allegedly faking her kidnapping.

Saying that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) “systematically and knowingly” violated the law,  environmentalist Simone Mangal-Joly is contending that the environmental permit issued for ExxonMobil’s Yellowtail Development Project is “illegal and Invalid” as a result.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has lodged a complaint with the Local Content Secretariat over the practice here by foreign companies of bundling contracts for services in the oil and gas sector to the disadvantage of local companies.

Government has hired Indian policy advisor and labour economics researcher Dr Anil Yadav to conduct an assessment of Guyana’s short and long-term cross-sectoral labour capacity needs and design a strategy to guide government-planned immigration and labour policies, President Irfaan Ali says.

Petitions calling for the removal of Wikki/Calcuni toshao Ezard Fredericks were not in accordance with the relevant laws, according to Minister of Amerindian Affairs Minister Pauline Sukhai.