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The APNU+AFC government has made great strides during its three years in office, according to President David Granger, who also says there are still some challenges that it is working to overcome.

In wake of the recent armed attack on a Cuyuni mining camp, where over two dozen miners were robbed, President of the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) Urica Primus says she is hopeful that the resuscitated Hinterland Intelligence Committee can put measures in place to protect miners against the feared “Sindicato” gangs reported to be operating here.

Gopaul Etwaroo, the 22-year-old man who was recently rescued from the pig pen in which he was held captive, has been discharged from hospital but will undergo a psychiatric evaluation tomorrow.

Although the performance of local firms in Guyana, as measured by sales growth, is the highest in the Caribbean, power outages cost them more than their counterparts in the region, while the percentage paid in bribery is also the highest in the region, a new Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) study has found.

A driver escaped almost certain death along the Linden-Lethem Trail on Friday when his truck toppled into a ravine close to the Kurupukari Crossing.

Since 2015, the Rights of the Child Commission (RCC) has been able to help more than 400 juvenile offenders access legal aid through funding from United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and assistance from the Guyana Legal Aid Clinic.

Ten young entrepreneurs will have a shot at earning from $500,000 to $1 million in start-up funding for their proposed businesses at the inaugural Youth in Business Summit, which will begin this week, Director of Youth Melissa Carmichael has announced.

Marlon Jordan, the three-year-old boy who was discovered dead in his grandparents’ Sophia house last Wednesday, died as a result of pneumonia, a post-mortem examination has found.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – China has agreed to take measures to boost imports from the United States to reduce America’s trade deficit, the two countries said yesterday, although without mentioning the $200 billion target the White House had touted earlier.

Haniff Bacchus, the 70-year-old Guyanese national who was allegedly caught with a quantity of cocaine hidden in his motorised wheelchair at the Maurice Bishop International Airport in Grenada earlier this month, has since pleaded guilty to possession of the drug and he will be sentenced on Thursday.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon on Thursday visited La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara businessman Naresh Persaud and his family, who were brutalised and robbed in a home invasion.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – Malaysians have avidly watched the public humiliation of former leader Najib Razak and his wife, as police hunting evidence of graft loaded five trucks with luxury items, including dozens of Birkin handbags, some costing as much as a sportscar.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela yesterday accused the United States of using new sanctions against its government’s top officials to sabotage a controversial presidential election today, which the country’s opposition says has been rigged.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure has announced that the pedestrian overpasses located at Providence and Diamond, on the East Bank of Demerara, will be temporarily closed to allow for works necessary before the planned installation of elevators.

CANNES, France,  (Reuters) – Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda won the Palme d’Or at Cannes yesterday for “Shoplifters”, a critically acclaimed family drama with unguessable plot twists.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Flags flew at half-mast in Cuba yesterday marking the start of two days of national mourning while authorities worked to identify the corpses of 110 people who died in the crash of a Boeing 737 shortly after takeoff from Havana.

Two bandits last Monday intercepted and robbed Dr. Holly Alexander, the wife of former Registrar of the University of Guyana Vincent Alexander, of over half a million dollars in cash as well as other valuables shortly after she visited a city bank.

SANTA FE, Texas, (Reuters) – The 17-year-old student who authorities said killed 10 people when he opened fire in an art class in his Houston-area high school appeared “weirdly nonemotional” on the morning after the rampage, one of his lawyers said on Saturday.

Guyanese comprise fifty-two percent of ExxonMobil’s local workforce while 227 Guyanese companies serviced its oil and gas operations in 2018.

Some 150 new constables were today added to the Guyana Police Force after completing six months of training, at the Felix Austin Police College, which began on November 20, 2017.