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Residents of North Sophia last evening severely injured a man who allegedly raped a six- year-old girl.

Ranks of the Joint Services on Tuesday conducted a five-hour search in the Mazaruni Prison during which prohibited items were unearthed.

Guyana should sell its crude oil for refining at the best market price and whatever is in its best interest says Dr Thackwray “Dax” Driver, Chief Executive Officer of the Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T).  

Malcolm Collie, the 27-year-old Cooper Street, Albouystown attempted murder accused, was yesterday granted his release on $100,000 bail after the charge against him was withdrawn and a lesser charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm was laid.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration yesterday threatened tough action against the International Criminal Court should it try to prosecute Americans for alleged war crimes in Afghanistan and said the PLO’s office in Washington would be closed for seeking to punish Israel through the court.

With the majority of the slated rehabilitation works completed for the National Ophthalmology Hospital at Port Mourant, Corentyne, it is expected to resume full operation in a few weeks’ time, according to Region Six’s Director of Regional Health Services Jevaughn Stephens. 

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Hundreds of peasant farmers and indigenous Maya blocked a major highway in Guatemala’s western highlands on Monday, demanding that President Jimmy Morales reverse a policy aimed at forcing a U.N.-backed

The Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA), in collaboration with the Department of Tourism (DoT), held a roundtable discussion on Thursday with editors of the local media aimed at crafting a new relationship.

KARACHI/ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A Pakistani official’s critical comments about projects funded by China to the tune of billions of dollars rattled investors and sparked worries on Monday of a souring in ties, a day after Beijing’s top government diplomat concluded a visit.

CURITIBA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Brazil’s imprisoned former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will not yet bow out of next month’s presidential race, waiting first to hear a Supreme Court decision on an appeal of his ban from running, his legal team said.

A construction worker was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of attempting to commit armed robbery.

COPENHAGEN,  (Reuters) – Greenland yesterday picked Denmark as partner in a planned upgrade of two airports as it sought to defuse a diplomatic row over how the infrastructure projects, of strategic interest to both Washington and Beijing, should be financed.

The Beechcraft plane which was detained along with its owner more than two weeks ago shortly after it landed at the Eugene F.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela has agreed to hand over at least seven oil fields to little-known companies that will be paid to boost output through contracts similar to ones rolled back under late socialist leader Hugo Chavez, according to two sources and an internal document.

HOLDEN BEACH, N.C.,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Florence, the most powerful storm to menace the Carolina coast in nearly three decades, intensified into a Category 4 hurricane yesterday, prompting evacuations of more than 1 million people to higher ground.

The first of a series of Indigenous lectures was held yesterday at the Heritage Village, Sophia with Professor Ian Robertson, a Guyanese Linguist from the University of the West Indies, focusing on the importance of the translation of the Indigenous and other languages.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet called on China yesterday to allow in monitors after “deeply disturbing” allegations of large re-education camps in which Uighurs are detained in Xinjiang province.

In a news item in the Sunday Stabroek of September 9 under the headline `GRA begins audit of US$460m pre-oil costs’, it was erroneously stated that Melinda Janki had been one of the attorneys who signed the 1999 Production Sharing Agreement with Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited.

(Trinidad Express) Senior Magistrate Indrani Cedeno has dismissed an application that was made by a defence attorney in the Dana Seetahal murder inquiry for her to step down from further presiding over the matter on the ground of apparent bias.

(Trinidad Express) Police Commissioner Gary Griffith has confirmed that San Fernando resident Natalie Pollonais, who went missing on Thursday, was rescued by police.