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Jaikarran Sahadeo, the Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice man who was burned in a fire that gutted his home early Wednesday morning, has succumbed.

With the life of the Public Service Commission coming to an end, the High Court is now awaiting word from former Chairman Carvil Duncan on whether he will opt to see out his challenge to his suspension by President David Granger.

A storage bond will be built at Lethem, Region Nine next year in keeping with government’s plan to decentralise the operations of the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) to ensure timely disaster response, Minister of State Joseph Harmon announced yesterday.

The 911 emergency system will be back in operation in two weeks’ time, according to Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan, who has also announced that a large quantity of vehicles and other equipment necessary for law enforcement to respond arrived here recently from China.

Nearly 12 years after they would meet on the dance floor of a Washington, D.C.

Government and opposition spokesmen have agreed that this week’s two-day Private Sector Business Summit was a good engagement and the organiser is also optimistic about the way forward.

Sellers of cellphone accessories and other vendors were on Tuesday removed from the pavement on the western side of Demico House at the Stabroek Market Square, with the Mayor and City Council justifying their actions by explaining that criminal activities in the area have been on the increase.

When the sun2live project, a solar farm to be built in Mabaruma, is completed, the new town will have access to some 1,808 kWh of renewable energy per day.

The Guyana government has received approval for the release of US$1.5 million ($300 million) from the Guyana REDD+Investment Fund (GRIF) to finance the development of its Green State Development Strategy.

The accused in the death of Magon Jones, the 68-year-old woman who was beaten and had part of her tongue cut off in the attack, has pleaded guilty to killing her.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump struck a blow against the 2015 Iran nuclear deal yesterday, defying both U.S.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Aung San Suu Kyi has set out plans for a new humanitarian project to enable Myanmar’s Rakhine State to emerge as a peaceful and developed region, which a close adviser said showed her determination to fix the country’s refugee crisis.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s former chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega said yesterday her team had supplied the United States with evidence “compromising” top officials in the leftist administration of President Nicolas Maduro.

The prosecution has objected to convicted Guyanese pilot Khamraj Lall being granted bail on new money laundering and drug trafficking charges, arguing that his lawyer has presented no new evidence to support the claim that he is not a flight risk.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – The United Nations’ cultural agency selected former French culture minister Audrey Azoulay as its new chief yesterday, handing her the keys to revive UNESCO’s fortunes after the United States pulled out.

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Eighteen U.S. states sued President Donald Trump’s administration yesterday to stop him from scrapping a key component of Obamacare, subsidies to insurers that help millions of low-income people pay medical expenses, even as Trump invited Democratic leaders to negotiate a deal.

A man was yesterday sentenced to six months in jail after he admitted to stealing an air-conditioning (AC) unit from the George-town Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

A pension-age businessman was yesterday granted his release on $380,000 bail after he denied stealing a van and a gold chain.

(Trinidad Guardian) A night of karaoke fun turned deadly when masked men sprayed bullets into a crowded bar in Marabella on Wednesday night, killing three patrons.

SONOMA, Calif.,  (Reuters) – Fire officials reported further headway yesterday against devastating blazes in Northern California’s wine country but said the death toll of 34, already a record for the state, would likely climb higher with more than 250 people missing.