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The Centre of Communication Studies (CCS) of the University of Guyana (UG) will in the coming months be able to broadcast in and around the Turkeyen Campus, as plans to reissue a radio broadcast licence to the university are being finalized.

Approximately 15,000 residents of the Diamond/Grove area and its environs are expected to receive a better supply of water by December, as the Guyana Water Company (GWI) has completed the drilling of the second well in the area.

After some uproar from residents of Mocha/Arcadia over Broad Street squatters being relocated to their East Bank Demerara community, in a dramatic turn of events last evening, a Barnwell North representative extended open arms to them.

A taxi driver was yesterday placed on $150,000 bail by a city magistrate, after he denied a charge of sexually assaulting a minor.

After months of having been left unattended, the buildings of Celina’s Atlantic Resort (CAR), Kitty seawall have started to decay, as the Atlantic Ocean continues to lay claim to it.

The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) has refuted reports that any individual member led the recently concluded investigation of the procurement of emergency drugs by the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

A Charlestown man was yesterday placed on $250,000 bail by a city court after he pleaded not guilty to stealing more than $2 million in items from an auto dealership on Garnett Street.

The Aircraft Owners’ Association of Guyana (AOAG) yesterday welcomed moves by the civil aviation body to strengthen its capacity and said that many hinterland airstrips are still failing to meet the standards.

An 18-year-old Wismar pork-knocker was on Tuesday sentenced to four months imprisonment for  wounding his girlfriend.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) has expressed growing concern at the number of strikes over the past two weeks at practically all the estates which it says is creating an unmanageable degree of instability in the industry and affecting its value chain.

Inspectors of the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) have seized and removed more than fifty dial scales from  the Stabroek and Bourda markets which were not approved for commercial trade.

Yesterday, the European Commission’s Directorate for Trade relaunched its Export Helpdesk under a new name with a new look.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump proposed yesterday the biggest U.S.

BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq,  (Reuters) – Baghdad heaped pressure on Iraq’s Kurds yesterday, demanding they cancel their overwhelming vote for independence while parliament urged the Iraqi central government to send troops to take control of vital oil fields held by Kurdish forces.

BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Rebuilding the Caribbean islands of Dominica and Barbuda, ravaged by hurricanes Irma and Maria, is an opportunity to “build back better” and limit the impact of future disasters, U.N.

  (Reuters) – Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who helped usher in the 1960s sexual revolution with his groundbreaking men’s magazine and built a business empire around his libertine lifestyle, died on Wednesday at the age of 91, Playboy Enterprises said.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – El Salvador yesterday launched the first commission to search for persons who went missing during its civil war, 25 years after the end of a conflict that left tens of thousands dead and hundreds of cases unresolved.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico/ NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Puerto Rico officials pressed the Trump administration yesterday to lift a ban on foreign shipping between American ports as the U.S.

LIMA, (Reuters) – British officials are in talks with Peru, Colombia and Ecuador to use the three countries’ existing trade agreement with the European Union as the basis for forming new deals after Brexit, the British embassy in Lima said yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) Digicel is committing to help the people of Dominica to rebuild in the wake of the devastating category five hit from Hurricane Maria.