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MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia’s state communications watchdog has asked Google to stop advertising “illegal mass events” on its YouTube video platform, it said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) While he served customers, doubles vendor Shazard Manick was approached by two gunmen and shot multiple times.

(Jamaica Observer) The looks on the faces of wards of the State whose Jamaica National Children’s Home was destroyed by fire on Friday told stories of anxiety and what they believe the future hold for them.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Russians staged what a monitoring group called the country’s biggest political protest for eight years yesterday, defying a crackdown to demand free elections to Moscow’s city legislature.

(Trinidad Guardian) Four stu­dents who were caught cheat­ing dur­ing the CSEC Maths ex­am in May — af­ter a video was post­ed to so­cial me­dia show­ing them and oth­er stu­dents us­ing their cell-phones to share an an­swer sheet — have been dis­qual­i­fied.

At least two river dredges are operating illegally in the Kuyuwini River in Region Nine in areas that were declared no mining zones, according to the South Rupununi District Council (SRDC), which has expressed alarm at the destruction being caused to the largely pristine area by the gold mining operations.

Acting Commander of ‘G’ Division (Essequibo Coast and Islands) Superintendent Crystal Robinson suffered millions of dollars in losses after a fire of unknown origin destroyed her Stewartville, West Coast Demerara house and three vehicles yesterday morning.

Surveillance footage appears to exonerate former Detective Con-stable Richard Persaud, who was accused of planting suspected ganja on the premises of a Superbet branch at Reliance Village, at East Canje Berbice, last month.

The East Coast Highway road upgrade and widening project is currently 71 per cent done and is expected to be completed by the end of the year, Technical Services Manager for roads at the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, Nigel Erskine has disclosed.

After three weeks, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has been able to register approximately 174,000 persons as part of the contentious national house-to-house registration exercise.

Government’s lobbying for the Bank of Baroda to remain in Guyana may have influenced it to stay and Minister of Finance Winston Jordan says that it is likely to see many future rewards with first oil on the horizon, a number of foreign companies opening businesses here and no international bank offering competition.

With a grant from the Guyana Fund for Cultural and Creative Industries (GFCCI), local musician Gavin Mendonca plans to release a series of folk albums, which he hopes will contribute to the preservation of Guyanese culture and heritage.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead yesterday after an apparent suicide in the New York jail cell where he was being held without bail on sex-trafficking charges, and a source said he was not on suicide watch at the time of his death.

The Ministry of Citizenship is still to source finances to develop the areas identified in Region One to house Venezuelan immigrants.

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s opposition Congress party selected past president Sonia Gandhi as its interim leader yesterday, while it searches for a successor to her son Rahul Gandhi, who quit following a crushing election defeat by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Germany will partially suspend funds sent to Brazil to finance projects aimed at preserving the Amazon forest due to increasing deforestation, Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) contracted truck that got stuck along the main access road to Kamwatta Hill, at Mabaruma, in Region One, was removed yesterday morning, according to Toshao Henry Morris, who said traffic in and out of village has since returned to normal.

The recently constructed La Parfaite Harmonie Police Station is expected to be commissioned within a month, Deputy Commi-ssioner of Police Nigel Hoppie told residents of the West Bank Demerara community yesterday. 

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Russians staged what a monitoring group called the country’s biggest political protest for eight years yesterday, defying a crackdown to demand free elections to Moscow’s city legislature.

(Trinidad Guardian) The crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion Min­is­ter Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald and her com­pan­ion widened on Friday as po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors have un­earthed new in­for­ma­tion.