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(Barbados Nation) The body of the woman found along the beach at Hastings, Christ Church, has been identified.

(Trinidad Express) A 15-year-old girl, died in her bedroom on Monday afternoon, with a positive pregnancy test next to her body.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Protesters in Hong Kong must not “play with fire” and mistake Beijing’s restraint for weakness, China said today in its sharpest rebuke yet of the “criminals” behind demonstrations in the city whom it vowed to bring to justice.

Under pressure over the last year to account for hundreds of Haitians who have arrived in this country but did not leave legally, Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix yesterday said that the police have found no evidence of people smuggling and he called recent reportage on this matter “xenophobic”.

With oil production scheduled to commence from March next year, Minister of Finance Winston Jordan says that just above US$100 million will likely be available for Budget spending in 2020.

Without general elections by September 18, the “ship of Guyana sails into unchartered constitutional waters and nobody knows just what will happen”, political commentator and former Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran told an American Chamber of Commerce in Guyana (AmCham) event last evening at the Marriott Hotel.

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC is expected to make a ruling next Wednesday on the challenge by Christopher Ram to the ongoing house-to-house registration exercise.

Justice Gino Persaud last Friday ordered that three Mahaicony residents be compensated a total of almost $8 million for their unlawful arrest and the impoundment of a vehicle by the Guyana Police Force.

International cricketer Christopher Barnwell is now free on bail after he was charged yesterday with assaulting a police officer during a cricket match.

His escaping imprisonment only through presidential respite is one of the key issues Minister of Finance Winston Jordan will consider as he mulls a possible return to his current post if asked by the APNU+AFC coalition to serve again, should they win the next general elections.

Newly-appointed Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) retired Justice Claudette Singh will preside over her first meeting of the commission on August 15, one day after the acting Chief Justice, Roxane George  provides a ruling on a challenge to the House-to-House registration exercise underway.

Bariel Hall, the 18-year-old who remained a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital after being the victim of a hit and run accident just over two months ago, succumbed to his injuries yesterday morning.

Chairman of the Corentyne Fishermen’s Co-operative Society Parmeshwar Jainarine yesterday recommended compensation and protection for victims after pirate attacks.

(Jamaica Observer) The father of a six-year-old who received cuts to his genitals in a vicious attack last week in White Horses, St Thomas, is trying to dissuade the lad from seeking to exact vengeance on the 16-year-old boy who is accused of committing the act.

After being sent on administrative leave in late April, Director of Youth Melissa Carmichael has said that to date she has not been given a reason for the decision.

High Court Judge Fidela Corbin-Lincoln is expected to hear further arguments on Thursday before making a determination as to whether she will grant Charles Ceres an injunction he is seeking against Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, whom he has sued for libel.

A 7-year-old girl was severely burnt about her body early yesterday morning after a fire of unknown origin gutted her Mon Repos North, East Coast Demerara home.

(Jamaica Observer) The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has launched an investigation to determine the origin of a video that is now circulating on social media, showing a policeman intervening in an altercation between a man sporting locks and another individual who appears to be a cross-dresser.

Residents of Jacklow Village in the Lower Pomeroon will have Internet access in and around their community before the end of September 2019, a release from the Ministry of Public Telecommunications said yesterday.

The Ministry of Natural Resources yesterday launched its third Annual Youth Apprenticeship programme at the Herdmanston Lodge.