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The Ministry of Health, through its Chronic Disease Programme, is aiming to expand screening for kidney disease, according to Nephrologist Dr Hemchand Barran.

Police investigators have arrested a shop owner over the suspected murder of a man, whose body was discovered at a shop on Thursday at Barama Line, Baramita, North West District, Region One.

With the aim of ensuring that all staff are equipped with the necessary skills to effectively respond to an off- shore oil spill, ExxonMobil Guyana recently conducted an exercise to field test its spill-response equipment, processes, and team readiness.

The attorneys for former Minister of Finance Winston Jordan are seeking to have the misconduct in public office charge pending against him tried in the High Court.

Collin Denny, who was on trial for allegedly trafficking five pounds of cannabis in 2018, was freed of the charge on Thursday.

A woman was yesterday released on $200,000 bail after she denied six charges that she embezzled over $3.1 million from her place of employment.

Two men, who the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) said were arrested wrapping pellets of cocaine amounting to $1.2 million in value, have been charged and remanded.

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) on Wednesday intercepted a vehicle ferrying over 100 pounds of cannabis.

A man was taken into custody on Thursday after a Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) operation resulted in the seizure of two parcels of cocaine.

A youth was on Wednesday charged with causing a child under the age of 16 to watch a sexual act.

LVIV, Ukraine/KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russia blocked Facebook and some other websites yesterday and passed a law that gave Moscow much stronger powers to crack down on independent journalism, prompting the BBC, Bloomberg and other foreign media to suspend reporting in the country.

The Ministry of Health on Friday reported 22 new COVID-19 cases.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – A Catholic bishop accused of sexually abusing young men studying to be priests was found guilty by a court in northern Argentina yesterday, capping over a week of often graphic testimony in the latest criminal abuse case to hit the global Church.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Global financial crime watchdog the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) yesterday said Middle East business hub the United Arab Emirates had been included on a list of jurisdictions subject to increased monitoring, known as its ‘grey’ list.

WASHINGTON/HELSINKI,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden agreed to deepen security ties with his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto yesterday, but stopped short of making any formal guarantees to the country nervously watching Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Indrawattie Natram and Pandit Deodat Persaud, two young professional alumnus of the Know India Programme (KIP), were selected by India’s High Commission to represent Guyana virtually on the KIP dialogue forum scheduled for today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced major changes to the Public Health Regulations, including allowing families to travel in their private vehicles without wearing masks and a hold-off on the Public Sector Vaccine Policy.

ROME, (Reuters) – Italian police have seized a yacht owned by Alexey Mordashov, the richest man in Russia before being blacklisted this week by the European Union following Moscow’s attack on Ukraine, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday.

An unemployed youth on Monday told a City Magistrate that he was being wrongfully accused of attempting to break into a man’s home.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday said that the body of an unidentified man was on Wednesday found along the Met-en-Meerzorg Public Road, West Coast Demerara.