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A Number 49 Village resident was discovered dead in his home yesterday morning with a head injury.

Permission for the seventh commercial passenger flight from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport to Miami Inter-national Airport was granted on Wednesday by the National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF).

BENGALURU/LONDON,  (Reuters) – The United States has secured almost a third of the first 1 billion doses planned for AstraZeneca’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine by pledging up to $1.2 billion, as world powers scramble for medicines to get their economies back to work.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Hong Kong activists called for a protest march today against Beijing’s plans to impose national security legislation in the semiautonomous city, raising concerns over its freedoms and its status as a global financial hub.

RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil suffered a record of 1,188 daily coronavirus deaths yesterday and is fast approaching Russia to become the world’s No.

Following the Caribbean Exami-nation Council’s decision to allow the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Pro-ficiency Examination (CAPE) exams to be done online in wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Guyana’s students, their parents and teachers are still awaiting word from the Ministry of Education on how they will be administered here.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday it would withdraw from the 35-nation Open Skies treaty allowing unarmed surveillance flights over member countries, the Trump administration’s latest move to pull the country out of a major global treaty.

The Ministry of Public Health’s Health Emergency Operations Centre (HEOC) is now conducting COVID-19 screening and testing at La Parfaite Harmonie Police Station.

Two more men were yesterday charged with seven armed robberies committed on Corentyne residents, making it a total of six persons that have been charged so far.

ATLANTA,  (Reuters) – The man who videotaped the slaying of an unarmed black man gunned down as he jogged through a suburban neighborhood in Georgia was arrested yesterday as the third white suspect accused of murder in the racially charged case.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Sagicor Group Jamaica Limited took a $5-billion hit on its investment securities, which led to lower profit in the March quarter.

Hopeful of a return to St. Maarten this weekend, a member of the  Guyanese Association is seeking to find other residents of the island in Guyana who may wish to return home.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s attorney general’s office said yesterday it will issue arrest warrants for 10 mayors for alleged acts of corruption during the country’s two months of coronavirus lockdown.

TAIZ, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Jamil al-Saboot and his family were told by a Yemeni aid agency to self-isolate to stop the spread of coronavirus, he knew he would not heed the advice.

Statement by GECOM Chair Claudette SinghI am perturbed by an article published online via websites and social media platforms as well as in the today’s edition of the Kaieteur News under the caption, “Justice Singh doesn’t think it’s GECOM’s role to probe claims of anomalies – Commissioner Sase Gunraj.”

The Carter Center today expressed disappointment at not being able to return and observe the recount of votes at Guyana’s March 2nd general elections.

BENGALURU/LONDON,  (Reuters) – The United States has secured almost a third of the first one billion doses planned for AstraZeneca’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine by pledging up to $1.2 billion, as world powers scramble for medicines to get their economies back to work.

TAIZ, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Jamil al-Saboot and his family were told by a Yemeni aid agency to self-isolate to stop the spread of coronavirus, he knew he would not heed the advice.

Canadian-owned Guyana Goldfields Inc (GGI) on Tuesday terminated the services of over 160 employees and plans to continue to reduce its approximately 530-member workforce over the next few days as it prepares for a takeover by Canadian silver miner Silvercorp.

A total of 71 ballot boxes were recounted yesterday at the conclusion of day 15 of the national recount and as GECOM seeks to further accelerate the process, Chairperson, Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh intends to ask the national COVID-19 task force for two more work stations.