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A city constable was stabbed in the face yesterday morning during an altercation at City Hall with another man who fled but was subsequently shot and captured.

Durn Hunt, the Corriverton man who police say threw his girlfriend into a drain and then stabbed her on Monday, was formally charged with her murder yesterday.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday launched a commemorative stamp to mark the 50th anniversary of bilateral relations between Guyana and Brazil.

Contractors hired to construct buildings for the Ministry of Public Health in Region One as far back as 2016 failed to complete the projects despite being advanced more than 50% of the contract sums, according to the 2017 Auditor General’s report, which urged that efforts be made to recover all the money overpaid.

New Delhi has formally informed Georgetown that Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi will no longer be visiting Guyana as planned in early December due to commitments in his home country, Minister of State Joseph Harmon announced yesterday.

Government yesterday announced that regulations for the management of Guyana’s wildlife trade are completed and will soon be gazetted.

Two former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) privates were yesterday charged with the rape of a 26-year-old Essequibo woman.

Five of the six men who were apprehended on Tuesday night following an armed robbery at a Parika bar were yesterday remanded to jail on multiple charges of armed robbery.

Of the $7.5 billion in supplementary funding for which it is currently seeking parliamentary approval, government has earmarked $2.451 billion or a little more than 30% for the completion of severance payments to laid-off sugar workers.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) will meet next week with the city’s two primary garbage contractors – Puran Brothers Waste Disposal Inc and Cevons Waste Management Inc – to settle its outstanding debts, Solid Waste Management Director Walter Narine says.

The prosecution yesterday closed its case against accused drug traffickers Stephen Vieira, Tazim Gafoor, his son Nazim Gafoor, and Sherwayne De Abreu, who are on trial over the $550 million in cocaine that was found by authorities in dressed lumber last year.

A promoter was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with being in possession of 2.5 pounds of cocaine for trafficking.

A construction worker is now free on $250,000 bail after he yesterday denied raping a 15-year-old girl.

DUBAI/WASHINGTON/GLENDALE Ariz.,(Reuters) – Saudi Arabia said yesterday that journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in a fight inside its Istanbul consulate and said it had fired two senior officials over the incident, giving an account that U.S.

Opposition Leader President Bharrat Jagdeo on Wednesday said the huge hikes in tolls announced by the Berbice Bridge Company Incorporated (BBCI) are not in keeping with the 20-year contract he signed with the company while he was president in 2006 and he called on the government to press the company on how it arrived at the figures.

LIMA/MADRID  (Reuters) – A fugitive Peruvian Supreme Court justice accused of leading a criminal group that infiltrated the country’s judicial system was captured in Madrid yesterday and held on remand by Spanish authorities.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, should remain a unit of the central bank, the government said on Friday.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentine President Mauricio Macri is used to seeing bad poll numbers as he struggles to drive through an unpopular austerity program that has cut fuel subsidies, raised taxes and sent utility bills soaring.

AMRITSAR, India,  (Reuters) – A commuter train travelling at high speed ran through a crowd of people on the rail tracks in northern India killing at least 59 people yesterday, state officials said, making it India’s worst rail disaster this year.

Guyana is to host the headquarters of one of the region’s newest institutions, the Partnership Initiative for Sustainable Land Management (PISLM), which is to be relocated from Trinidad and Tobago.