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Josh Jailall, of the Swami Pumanda Primary School, has won the Region Four Primary-level’s Spelling Bee competition.

Attorney Glenn Hanoman yesterday said he was not notified of the hearing on Thursday when the trial of his client, former Attorney-General Anil Nandlall, resumed in a Georgetown court.

Muammar Jabbar, who was wanted by police in connection with the 2013 murder of Tolasicy Marshall, in Albouystown, was arrested in Berbice sometime between Wednesday and Thursday, the force’s Public Relations Officer Jairam Ramlakhan has confirmed.

The partially decomposed body of an unidentified man was found floating in a trench aback Providence, East Bank Demerara yesterday.

Two police officers, who were recently injured in the line of duty, were on Thursday promoted by Commissioner of Police Leslie James for their bravery.

The Georgetown International Academy (GIA) will today stage Almost, Maine at the Theatre Guild in Georgetown.

NEW YORK,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said yesterday he would contribute $500 million toward closing coal-fired power plants across the United States, in a clash with White House effort to revive a fossil fuel blamed for climate change.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Come mid-July, 150 persons will be out of work in St Thomas as manufacturing conglomerate Seprod turns off the lights at the Golden Grove Sugar Factory.

Transparency and accountability are paramount for a robust energy sector, Professor José Rinkenbach told a gathering last week Thursday when the University of Guyana (UG) hosted its latest Turkeyen and Tain Talks.

WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday there was a “good chance” that the United States would be able to reach a deal with Mexico over his demands that it curb the number of mostly Central American migrants crossing the southern U.S.

Farmers in the Mainstay/Whyaka Village, Region Two, are set to hold talks with Amazon Caribbean Guyana Limited (AMCAR) towards revitalising the pineapple industry, the Department of Public Information (DPI) has reported.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) is reporting that the recently concluded first phase of its Dead Elector Removal Exercise identified 106,000 dead electors. 

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said yesterday that the opposition does not currently plan to join a new round of talks in Norway with representatives of President Nicolas Maduro, after mediation efforts collapsed last month without a deal.

(Trinidad Express) An underground explosion in the city of Port of Spain yesterday morning triggered a national security alert over fears that someone had set off a bomb.

After recently being convicted and sentenced to 14 years in jail for manslaughter, Black Bush Polder, Corentyne resident Navindra Basdeo has filed an appeal as he contends that the verdict was “unreasonable” and cannot be supported by the evidence.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s prime minister yesterday urged Sudan’s military rulers and civilian opposition to exercise “bravery” in trying to agree on a transition to democracy after the worst bloodshed since the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir.

The disciplinary committee of the Medical Council of Guyana is still reviewing the findings of investigations into the deaths of three children, who died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) in January after being administered cancer drugs.

(Trinidad Guardian) Four days af­ter he was re­port­ed miss­ing, the body of 23-year-old Nicholas “Nicho” Ju­man was found over a cliff along the road to Mara­cas Bay yester­day af­ter­noon.

The report, ‘Lawyer for drug accused ex-cop wants minister as witness in extradition hearing,’ which appeared in our June 6th, 2019 edition, erroneously identified attorney Keoma Griffith as one of the attorneys representing the accused, Shaun Darcy Nebblett.

The University of Guyana (UG)  this evening said that outgoing Vice Chancellor Professor Ivelaw Griffith has withdrawn his request for a renewal of his contract.