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Almost three days after they fell into the Essequibo River, the bodies of two farmers were recovered yesterday morning.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Food Storage and Prevention of Infestation Division (FSPID), in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF) says it has confiscated 70 metric tonnes (1,575 bags) of White Cinderella rice from Guyana due to high microbial content.

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, today, signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and the Guyana Hockey Board which are intended for the construction of two state-of-the-art sporting facilities behind D’Urban Park.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said today the U.S.-backed

(Jamaica Gleaner) Collaring corrupt criminal actors and untouchables will require the Government to adopt tougher legislation that forces them to prove their sources of wealth or be thrown into prison, says Howard Mitchell, leader of Jamaica’s most powerful business lobby.

(Trinidad Express) A 16-year-old boy expected to appear in court today, charged with sexual penetration of a 15-year-old girl.

(Trinidad Express) Police are trying to find out why Mariah Neptune was shot and killed in Tunapuna on Thursday night.

(Trinidad Express) Frustrated at the slow pace of development and the terrible road conditions within their community, Fyzabad residents took up the onus of repairing the road themselves.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Developers have lost a court appeal to build a coal mine in Australia’s Hunter Valley over its potentially “dire” environmental impact in the country’s first legal review of a coal mine project to hear evidence from a climate scientist.

(Jamaica Observer) The police are now investigating the possible existence of a baby-stealing ring after recovering an infant that had been snatched from Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH) last month.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday called for the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) to investigate government’s huge increases in thresholds for restricted tendering and he warned heads of agencies not to get ensnared by illegalities.

A sixty-four-year-old Bartica woman died on Saturday after being stranded for close to two days on the decrepit Puruni Trail in Region Seven.

The Region Six Democratic Council was yesterday informed that the New Amsterdam Public Hospital’s Chief Executive Officer is expected to be replaced following a series of complaints from residents of Berbice.

The timing of government’s increase in thresholds for restricted tendering should be questioned given that the Cabinet should have resigned with the December 21st passage of a no-confidence motion against the government, former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran has said.

Just over 200 government supporters yesterday protested near the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to demand that house-to-house registration be conducted before the next general and regional elections are held.

A Route 32 (Georgetown-Parika) minibus went up in flames yesterday afternoon after a collision with a utility pole at Hague, West Coast Demerara.

CUCUTA, Colombia/TIENDITAS, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Trucks carrying humanitarian aid for crisis-stricken Venezuela arrived in the Colombian border city of Cucuta yesterday as diplomatically-isolated President Nicolas Maduro appeared set to block its entry amid an escalating political crisis.

The Alliance for Change (AFC) would not be using state resources to campaign for the next elections, according to party officials, who also said that it already screens its donors.

Although grappling with challenges related to climate change; wide fiscal deficits and high public debt; as well as high unemployment, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) yesterday projected that the region’s economy is expected to grow by 2% in 2019 and Guyana was one of the fastest growing economies last year.

OTTAWA/TORONTO, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday denied a newspaper report that his office had tried to pressure the former justice minister to intervene in the prosecution of engineering and construction firm SNC-Lavalin Group.