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The Region Six council is calling on government to reverse a decision to have the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) take responsibility for drainage and irrigation in the region.

A date for the AFC’s next congress will be set on Saturday with key issues such as who will replace current leader Raphael Trotman and whether Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo will go into upcoming elections in his current capacity, on the table for the congress to decide.

PPP presidential candidate Irfaan Ali must explain the about-face from his party’s view that benefits from oil won’t be seen before 2025 to now saying that benefits would flow from the first year of a PPP/C administration, Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin says.

A battle for control of Canadian miner, Guyana Goldfields Inc (GGI) is set to culminate on May 22 and the Board of Directors on Tuesday hit back at accusations that they have mismanaged the company, outlining a number of actions taken since terminating the services of former Executive Chairman Patrick Sheridan.

Pensioners and retirees of the former Guyana Telecommunications Corporation (GTC) and GTT, are threatening legal action against the government if they do not heed calls to pay over pension owed.

Charged with attempting to smuggle less than a pound of cannabis into the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, a mother of three was yesterday remanded to prison.

Two teenage boys were remanded yesterday after they were accused of using a knife to rob a man of his phone and other articles.

Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MoPI), Technical Services Manager, Nigel Erskine has announced that the East Coast Demerara (ECD) road widening project is fifty-five percent completed So far, the contractor, China Railway First Group Limited, has finished the construction of 14.2 kilometres of the reinforced concrete side drain and 473 metres of reinforced revetment.

Agriculture is taking off in the mainly mining community of Mahdia in Region 8.

The University of Guyana (UG) yesterday launched its BSc degree in food science at an all-day symposium at the Turkeyen Campus.

A Lodge resident was yesterday granted bail after he was charged with fraudulently converting $1.1 million in Mercedes car parts.

Eleven schools, along with surrounding communities on the East Coast of Demerara, will soon be benefitting from the services of a bookmobile that was commissioned yesterday by the National Library, in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Georgetown.

A father of six accused of trafficking 15 grammes of marijuana, was yesterday granted bail by a city court.

A La Bonne Intention (LBI) family is seeking answers from the police after a relative who was in police custody ended up hospitalised in a critical state at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president yesterday, winning the backing of Washington and many Latin American nations and prompting socialist Nicolas Maduro, who has led the oil-rich nation since 2013, to break relations with the United States.

As the police probe into the break-in at the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) office at Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara earlier this month continues, two persons were detained for questioning and subsequently released.

KINSHASA,  (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s outgoing President Joseph Kabila said he would hand over power today “without regret” and called on Congolese to support his successor, Felix Tshisekedi.

(Barbados Government Information Service) From April 1, the importation, retail, sale and use of petro-based single use plastic (plastic made from petroleum) will no longer be allowed in Barbados.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives floated the idea yesterday of ending a partial U.S.

(Trinidad Express) The decomposed body found in a forested area at Las Lomas on Tuesday has been identified as kidnapped businessman Sheldon Sukhdeo.