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The Ministry of Education yesterday awarded 74 schools from across the country for outstanding school attendance.

(Jamaica Observer) Stanley Motta Ltd, subsidiary of the Musson Group, is investing US$30 million in an integrated Tech Campus at 58 Half-Way-Tree Road in Kingston.

A grand prize worth over $100,000 will be up for grabs today when the Rotaract Club of Georgetown Central (RCGC) hosts “The El Dorado Quest: Secrets of the 592.”

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Around 1 million unvaccinated Venezuelan children are susceptible to measles, a highly contagious disease that has re-emerged in the crisis-stricken South American nation, a group of doctors estimated yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The former household helper and her boyfriend who have been convicted of killing university lecturer Dr Peter Vogel have each been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

A licensed firearm holder employed by a Government Agency as an enforcement officer who allegedly discharged his 9MM pistol multiple times, in public view, at a popular night spot in Sandy Babb Street, Kitty early this morning, has been arrested and his weapon lodged.

The exit of the troubled Dynamic Airways from the Guyana market had been confirmed by its local representative, Captain Gerry Gouveia of Roraima Airways Limited.

  GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Antigua and Barbuda asked the United States today  to settle a decade-old trade dispute to help the Caribbean country pay the $250 million cost of recovery from Hurricane Irma, which “completely decimated” the island of Barbuda.

-majority of equipment not in use up to last September A special investigation by the Office of the Auditor General of GECOM’s purchase of 50 radio sets for the 2015 general elections has revealed procurement breaches among a host of other problems and a recommendation was made for the police to be called in for an in-depth probe and criminal charges if necessary.

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday said that ranks from the Guyana Police Force would have to bear some of the blame for the disappearance of a quantity of cocaine from Police Headquarters, Eve Leary on Tuesday.

Two Ministry of Public Security data entry clerks and a Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) employee were yesterday among four persons charged over a forged tint permit.

Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Godfrey Statia yesterday lamented the failure by local businesses to remit deducted taxes on time, saying that their non-compliance results in needless penalties.

Local businesses are continuing to band together in solidarity to donate millions in relief supplies to those islands affected by hurricanes in the past weeks.

Lloyd Lyte, the former policeman who was charged with the attempted murder of a man who was shot last November, was yesterday committed to stand trial for the crime.

A former employee is being treated as a suspect in the death of the Brazilian dredge operator who was shot dead at his Akaiwanna, Cuyuni mining camp, which was attacked by a gang.

A Linden man is being accused of forging the signature of the Com-missioner of Police on a letter for a firearm licence that he needed to uplift an air gun he bought online.

At a community meeting at Tipperary Hall, Buxton, East Coast Demerara, on Sunday, Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) announced that it will be installing 3,000 meters in Buxton and neighbouring communities from October, which will significantly help to reduce customers’ service charges.

V G Siddhartha, the owner of Vaitarna Holdings Private Inc (VPHI), which controls local forest concessions amounting to 737,814 hectares, is currently facing a tax evasion investigation in India.

Jermaine Flavius, who was reportedly injured by a prison warden last year after he allegedly refused to have a body cavity search conducted on him, found himself in hot water once more yesterday when he refused to be searched by police at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.

A video editor attached to the Evening News is hoping to be compensated by the Demerara Harbour Bridge Company (DHBC) for damage caused to his motorcycle during Tuesday’s collapse of the connecting posts on the bridge.