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(Reuters) – Ric Ocasek, the idiosyncratic lead singer and chief songwriter of the 1970s and 80s hook-heavy hitmakers The Cars, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan.

NASSAU,  (Reuters) – As rescuers search for bodies amid mountains of debris and the stench of death on the Bahamas island of Abaco, life on most of the archipelago’s 700 isles is little changed.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The oil market will rally by $5-10 per barrel when it opens on Monday and may spike to as high as $100 per barrel if Saudi Arabia fails to quickly resume oil supply lost after attacks over the weekend, traders and analysts said.

(Trinidad Guardian) The rel­a­tives of To­ba­go gy­ro ven­dor Elias Dab­bourah, 30, are de­mand­ing jus­tice fol­low­ing his death on Sat­ur­day.

Hazardous and non-hazardous waste produced by Guyana’s fast developing oil and gas sector are being managed according to international standards and best practices, according to Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Dr Vincent Adams.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) yesterday handed over management of six housing areas on the West Bank of Demerara to the Malgre Tout/Meer Zorgen Neigbourhood Democratic Council (NDC).

A businessman was left counting millions of dollars in losses after a fire, suspected to be deliberately set, gutted his Good Hope, East Coast Deme-rara (ECD) home, furniture factory and bond early yesterday morning.

For many persons in the cake-baking and interior design industries, this weekend’s Cake and Décor Exhibition is a rare chance for them to show Guyanese their creativity and talents in their respective areas.

Four University of Guyana (UG) LL.B graduands have been awarded government scholarships to pursue the Legal Education Certificate (LEC) at the Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS) for the 2019/2010 academic year.

With the permission of Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, the Public Service Commission (PSC) has delegated to Permanent Secretaries the power to appoint persons within the public sector who will be paid between the GS 1 (minimum wage) and GS 3 salary scales ($76,016). 

During a visit to the Bahamas to show solidarity with the country’s people in the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Dorian, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated that the international community must take greater action to address the climate crisis. 

The viral disease that killed thousands of ducklings of the Muscovy breed earlier this year is still to be determined despite numerous tests carried out on samples sent to the Cornell University Duck Research Laboratory in United States.

Residents whose homes sustained damage as a result of the freak storm in Linden three weeks ago were able to rebuild after receiving assistance from the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) and the Civil Defence Commission (CDC).

The remains of Shaniya Persaud, the seven-year-old who was severely burnt in a fire that gutted her Mon Repos North, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home more than a month ago, will be flown back to Guyana on Thursday for a funeral service.

MACORP Guyana on Friday launched the Yellowmark line of parts that is expected to give customers both affordable but reliable replacements for their machines.

RIYADH/DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group said it attacked two plants at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry yesterday, knocking out more than half the Kingdom’s output, in a move expected to send oil prices soaring and increase tensions in the Middle East.

Children with cleft lip and palate are expected to benefit from a collaboration between the Georgetown Public Hospital Cooperation (GPHC) and an international charitable organisation, Smile Train, to facilitate surgeries at the medical institution to address their condition.

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson likened himself to the unruly comic book character The Incredible Hulk late yesterday in a newspaper interview where he stressed his determination to take Britain out of the European Union on Oct.

The National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) on Friday announced that its Mangroves Department has commenced works to enhance the foreshores with groyne structures in Region Two at Anna Regina and Region Four at La Bonne Intention and Beterverwagting.

NASSAU (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Humberto lashed already devastated parts of the Bahamas with heavy rain and strong winds before crawling northwest yesterday, and forecasters said it was likely to become a hurricane before the end of the weekend.