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Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited registered an after tax profit of $3.134b for 2018, up by 14.4% compared to $2.73b last year.

A cargo vessel destined for Port Kaituma, Barima-Waini, yesterday morning capsized and sank in the Waini River resulting in millions of losses.

A man who robbed a North West District (NWD) shopkeeper at gunpoint last Friday has been arrested and police are preparing to institute charges against him.

The file on the investigation of the twelve firemen accused of theft from crew members and passengers of a Fly Jamaica airplane that crashed landed at the CJIA earlier this month has been re-sent to the Police Legal Advisor, retired justice Claudette Singh for advice.

The Guyana Government, along with representatives from the forestry sector, have made a “strong case” for the greenheart import restrictions by the United Kingdom (UK) to be lifted, the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) says.

A farmer of Moco Moco Village, Central Rupununi was on Saturday arrested by the  police after he was caught watering more than an acre of marijuana plants.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – European Union leaders finally sealed a Brexit deal yesterday, saying the package agreed with Prime Minister Theresa May was the best Britain will get in a warning to the British parliament not to reject it.

Ten law enforcement officers from ‘F’ Division were on Saturday promoted on the spot by Police Commissioner Leslie James when he visited the division’s headquarters.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Vice Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI) Sir Hilary Beckles has reported that The University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom (UK) has agreed to pay reparations for £200 million (approximately J$34 billion) taken from the Caribbean.

MOSCOW/KIEV,  (Reuters) – Russia seized three Ukrainian naval ships off the coast of Russia-annexed Crimea yesterday after opening fire on them and wounding several sailors, a move that risks igniting a dangerous new crisis between the two countries.

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon yesterday called for the residents of Pouderoyen and surrounding communities in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara (Region Three) to take  up the responsibility for their communities’ development.

Minister of Public Affairs, Dawn Hastings-Williams, on Friday, declared open the annual Upper Mazaruni District Youth Congress, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said yesterday. 

By Peter Ray Blood (Trinidad Guardian) The calypso fraternity was in mourning yesterday as news spread of the death of one of the last surviving legends, Lord Superior (Andrew Marcano).

TIJUANA, Mexico,  (Reuters) – U.S. authorities shut the country’s busiest border crossing and fired tear gas into Mexico yesterday to repel Central American migrants approaching the border after U.S.

President David Granger, consistent with advice from his team of specialist doctors at the Centro de Investigaciones Medico Quirugicas (CIMEQ) in Havana, Cuba, continues to take precautionary measures in light of his recent diagnosis of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a statement from the Ministry of the Presidency said tonight. 

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – European Union leaders finally sealed a Brexit deal today, saying the package agreed with Prime Minister Theresa May was the best Britain will get in a warning to the British parliament not to reject it.

 (Reuters) – A magnitude 5.6 quake struck off the Caribbean coast of Central America at 3:56 ET (2056 GMT), the U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Iconic calypsonian, Lord Superior (Andrew Marcano) passed away yesterday.

ExxonMobil has had to delay a Final Investment Decision (FID) on its Liza Phase-2 project as a result of the Guyana government’s move to carefully assess Field Development Plans (FDPs).

Government will support a ban on rum in the Carib community of Baramita, in Region One, if requested, according to high ranking officials of the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs (MoIPA), who say that interventions to address some of the social ills plaguing the community have yielded some success, such as fewer reports of rape.