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(Jamaica Observer) The Portland police are searching for a man who is alleged to have killed his girlfriend following a prolonged domestic dispute at David Lane in Port Antonio yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion An­tho­ny Gar­cia said he would “have to con­sid­er the rec­om­men­da­tions” to de­ter­mine whether or not the fu­ner­al ser­vice for re­put­ed gang­ster Vaughn “Sand­man” Mieres can be held at the Las Cuevas Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School, on Fri­day.

(Jamaica Observer) The 57th anniversary of Jamaica’s independence is in the spotlight with Jamaicans and friends of Jamaica celebrating across the United States the island’s milestone of gaining independence from Britain on August 6, 1962.

The City Council has halted the construction of a Nalco Champion Guyana chemical warehouse at the John Fernandes Ltd (JFL) Inland Terminal, at Industrial Site, Ruimveldt Georgetown, saying no permission had been granted.

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), retired Justice Claudette Singh, spent her first day yesterday being briefed on the functioning of the agency by its senior managers and has scheduled meetings with the two sides of the Commission today.

V G Siddhartha, the owner of Vaitarna Holdings Private Inc (VPHI) of India, which controls  forest concessions in Guyana amounting to 737,814 hectares has been found dead.

Keon David, the ex-policeman who is wanted by the police in connection with the fatal shooting of Sophia resident Kurt Duncan at Seeta’s Bar on Monday morning, was not a licensed firearm holder.

Guyana’s current chicken shortage will be rectified by mid-August as local farmers have placed adequate supplies of chicken on their farms that will reach production age by that time, the Guyana Poultry Producers Association (GPPA) said yesterday in a press release.

Following a tumultuous couple of months, Canadian mining company Guyana Goldfields Inc.

Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC will be hearing arguments on Friday afternoon on the request of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) that she recuse herself from presiding over the challenge filed to the ongoing house-to-house registration exercise.

Representatives of the National Mine Workers Union of Guyana (NMWUG) yesterday walked out of a meeting with the Department of Labour as they say the engagement did not address any of the issues of Aurora Gold Mines Inc.

(Barbados Nation) Vijay Persaud’s journey had many ups and downs, but each step helped to propel him to the heights of NASA.

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has in the past three years ensured the reclamation of over 40 acres of land previously used for mining and has spent approximately $100 million on the process, according to Commission-er Newell Dennison.

A Grove construction worker is now a remanded prisoner on an attempted murder charge after allegedly chopping his neighbour with a cutlass.

A city magistrate yesterday committed a taxi driver to stand trial for the alleged rape of a woman.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) has refuted an item appearing in the Kaieteur News on July 28, which stated that the union had been delinquent in its submission of annual tax returns and filing of annual returns with the Registrar .

The Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) is continuing its work with the United States Coast Guard on Port Safety Management.

DETROIT,  (Reuters) – Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders offered an unabashed defense of their progressive policies during a Democratic presidential debate yesterday, as their more moderate rivals took aim at their proposals as unrealistic and politically untenable.

ExxonMobil has relinquished 20% of the Canje Block, offshore Guyana, and Director of the Department of Energy Dr Mark Bynoe says some things will have to be put in place before reallocation.

A nine-month sentence was yesterday handed down to Revelana Smith after she was found guilty of wounding a fellow prisoner.