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A 19-year-old student and his 23-year-old friend were on Saturday night arrested after they were found with one gun each on their person at Grove, on the East Bank of Demerara.

The Guyana Water Inc  (GWI) says that residents served by the Westminster and L’Oratoire, West Bank Demerara well stations have had their service normalized.

A Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) enforcement officer was shot and robbed of his service revolver early Saturday morning and the police have since arrested two persons for questioning.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel won a fourth term in office yesterday but Europe’s most powerful leader will have to govern with a far less stable coalition in a fractured parliament after her conservatives haemorrhaged support to a surging far right.

Bids are expected to be soon submitted for the extension of the Ministry of Public Health’s drug bond at Diamond and construction of a storage bond in Georgetown as the ministry moves to fulfil its pledge to stop renting private bonds.

A man has been admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital in a  serious condition after the motorcycle he was riding crashed into a vehicle yesterday morning at Providence, East Bank Demerara.

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO,  (Reuters) – Puerto Rico’s medical services are in critical condition in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

The Indian Action Committee (IAC) says it is collaborating with the Regional Democratic Council of Administrative Region No.

President David Granger has assented to the government’s contentious broadcasting bill, despite local and international calls for more consultations with stakeholders over some of its provisions.

Berbice lawmen are still on the hunt for the driver who hit two men, leaving a 19-year-old labourer dead along the Number 74 Village, Corentyne Public Road two Sundays ago.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexicans packed churches on Sunday to pray for the victims of the country’s deadliest quake in 32 years as rescue teams searched against the odds for any survivors trapped under rubble since Tuesday’s tremor shook Mexico City and nearby states.

The Governments and people of CARICOM are actively aiding Dominica following Monday night’s devastating passage of Category 5 Hurricane Maria, the CARICOM Secretariat said yesterday.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon on Thursday said that President David Granger is still considering the third list of nominees for the post of Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom), which was submitted by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo  a month ago.

ERBIL, Iraq/ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Iraq’s Kurds will go ahead with a referendum on independence today because their partnership with Baghdad has failed, Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani said yesterday, shrugging off international opposition to the vote.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The police say two persons were detained yesterday morning following the fatal shooting of Jamaica’s most wanted criminal, Marlon ‘Duppy Film’ Perry, in Port Morant, St Thomas.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday slapped new travel restrictions on citizens from North Korea, Venezuela and Chad, expanding the list of countries covered by his original travel bans that have been derided by critics and challenged in court.

  NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Kenya’s chief prosecutor has directed the department of criminal investigations and the anti-corruption commission to investigate election board officials over possible offences in the invalidated Aug.

A family preparing for a memorial service today was attacked by armed bandits in East La Penitence and one brother succumbed to bullet wounds and two others have been admitted to hospital.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister of Roosevelt Skerrit pleaded with world leaders yesterday to lend military equipment to help rebuild the hurricane ravaged island.

Residents of East Bank Berbice were in anger and disbelief yesterday as the decomposing body of 13-year-old Leonard Archibald, who was raped and then dumped into the Berbice River, was finally found, while the main suspect in the crime was accused by young boys of carrying out a series of attacks on them over a number of years.