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A swift response by the Guyana Fire Service yesterday morning averted a major disaster at the Guyana National Shipping Corporation Limited (GNSC) at Lombard Street, Georgetown.

Accounting firm Ram and McRae yesterday raised concerns about the legal status of the Natural Resource Fund Act.

An investigation into claims of attempts to defraud the government’s flood relief programme in Region Six has found no evidence of “corruption or skullduggery”, Regional Chairman David Armogan yesterday said.

As negotiations continue with China Railway Group Limited on the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP), Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh has announced that construction is slated to commence later this year.

With two of the five newly installed generators at the Guyana Power and Light’s Garden of Eden facility up and running, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bharrat Dindyal said they are scheduled to conduct an assessment today to determine the cause of recent problems.

The Transcultura Programme: Integrating Cuba, the Caribbean and the European Union through Culture and Creativity, implemented by UNESCO and funded by the European Union (EU), is receiving scholarship applications for online courses on cultural entrepreneurship at the Open Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWIOC).

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that as of January 29th, 2022, one more person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.

The Berbice Bridge entrance located in Region Six has now been furnished with streetlights.

Even as government continues negotiations with contractor China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) for the building of the new Demerara Harbour Bridge, it yesterday issued a request for proposals for supervisory services for the project.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia will ask NATO to clarify whether it intends to implement key security commitments, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said yesterday, after Moscow said the alliance’s response to its demands did not go far enough.

Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton, in response to questions from this newspaper, has confirmed that all workplace accidents investigations had commenced but said that these investigations are at different stages.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates said yesterday it had intercepted a ballistic missile that was fired by Yemen’s Houthi as the Gulf state hosted Israel’s President Isaac Herzog in a first such visit.

The Ministry of Education is advising that all recent graduates from Regions 1, 7, 8 and 9 of the Cyril Potter College of Education will not have to travel to the Ministry of Education in Georgetown to sign their contracts with the Government of Guyana.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Landslides and flooding from heavy rains in Sao Paulo state have killed at least 19 people since Friday, including seven children, public safety officials said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Virgin Atlantic is back! After a forced break of almost two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK carrier has restarted flights to Tobago as part of a wider resumption of services to the Caribbean.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday visited the site for a proposed family-friendly recreational park at Corriverton Waterfront in Region Six (East Berbice/Corentyne).

MATHURA, India,  (Reuters) – In the streets around a revered religious site in the Indian city of Mathura where a temple and mosque stand side-by-side, the handful of Muslim restaurants that remain are mostly empty or shuttered.

Ranks of the Ruimveldt Police Station on Saturday participated in a clean-up exercise at Houston, East Bank Demerara (EBD).

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Chilean protesters marched against immigration and crime in the Andean country’s far north yesterday, with some violent factions destroying belongings from migrant camps in the streets amid growing tension in the region over border controls.

 (Reuters) – The U.S. National Weather Service Miami-South Florida warned the public on Sunday that immobilised iguanas could fall out of trees due to unusual cold temperatures across the region.