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The Georgetown City Council will over the next two months, intensify the provision of routine environmental and health services as it joins the fight to prevent a dengue fever outbreak in Guyana.

The Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown yesterday announced plans for a cleaning exercise on Sunday within the Stabroek ward.  

Officials from the Ministry of Education (MoE), led by Minister Nicolette Henry, visited the Mae’s Schools yesterday to offer support to students following the suicide of teenaged student Vanica Schultz on Thursday.

Local poet and University of Guyana (UG) student Renata Burnette is set to host what is being billed as “the poetry event of the year” in order to raise funds to pay her tuition fees.

The accused in the murder of Godfrey Phillips, the shop owner who was stabbed to death last Sunday at Sophia, was remanded to prison on Thursday after he was charged with the crime.

A  Kuru Kuru, Soesdyke-Linden highway resident was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with cultivating marijuana.

A Kumaka bar owner was yesterday charged with attempting to murder a man who remains hospitalised with life-threatening injuries.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump agreed under mounting pressure yesterday to end a 35-day-old partial U.S.

After operating illegally for over a year, a popular Diamond, East Bank Demerara Chinese eatery, Georgie’s Restaurant, has been ordered shut by the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA).

BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian rescuers were searching for some 200 missing people after a tailings dam burst yesterday at an iron ore mine owned by Vale SA, the second major dam disaster involving the company in just over three years.

(Trinidad Express) In a brief but hard-hitting statement on Venezuela’s developing political crisis, United States Ambassador Joseph Mondello yesterday slammed the Trinidad and Tobago Government for continuing to recognise Nicolas Maduro as president of the troubled country.

WASHINGTON/CARACAS,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday signaled it was ready to step up economic measures to try to drive Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from power as some U.S.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Trial judge Justice Vivene Harris had strong words for murder-convict police constable Collis ‘Chucky’ Brown in handing down sentencing yesterday afternoon in the Home Circuit Court.

Om Singh, the Danielstown, Essequibo Coast resident who died on Sunday after he reportedly collapsed at the Anna Regina Police Station, where he was taken after allegedly assaulting his wife, died as a result of heart failure.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.,  (Reuters) – A longtime ally of U.S. President Donald Trump was arrested yesterday for lying to Congress about the 2016 campaign’s efforts to use stolen emails to undercut his Democratic rival in the latest arrest of the Special Counsel probe into possible election manipulation.

(Jamaica Observer) The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), the world’s number one performing stock exchange, launched the Jamaica Social Stock Exchange (JSSE) as a move to address social inequity at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday night.

A 60-year-old man was remanded to prison on Thursday after he was charged with simple larceny at a city court.

The Leader of the Opposition, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo,  today met with the Chairman of CARICOM, Dr.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said today he has reached a deal with U.S.

Town Clerk Royston King has been fired by the Local Government Commission for alleged gross misconduct.