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A $50 million repair of the roof on the Camp Street Headquarters of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has begun. 

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The United Nations yesterday said Venezuela’s security forces had committed extensive and apparently deliberate human rights violations in crushing anti-government protests and that democracy was “barely alive”.

A passenger’s alleged refusal to pay a bus driver his fare, resulted in an altercation between the two, with the bus driver suffering several injuries about his face, after being hit with a beer bottle.

(Reuters) – Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray said yesterdeay that Mexico will leave the negotiating table if U.S.

MUMBAI,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Deploying artificial reefs made of concrete to protect and restore a sinking island off India’s southeast coast has proved so successful that national funds will be used to pay for other similar reefs, a state environment director said on Wednesday.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Brazilian judge yesterday granted an injunction blocking a decree by President Michel Temer that opens up a vast Amazon area to mining, a decision that the attorney general’s office has said it will appeal.

The Police say they are probing a fatal accident which occurred about 1 this morning on the Liliendaal Public Road, ECD, that resulted the death of motorist Terrence Bowen, 36 years, of Lot 62 Atlanticville, ECD.

Land originally for a posh housing estate on the East Bank of Demerara connected to the controversial Chinese logging company Baishanlin is up for sale.

Senior Counsel Richard Fields has passed away at the age of 79.

An ex-prison officer was fatally shot while a man suspected to have been his accomplice was wounded after they attempted to carry out a robbery yesterday morning along the Liliendaal Railway Embankment road, East Coast Demerara.

Deputy Mayor of Georgetown,  Lionel Jaikarran has said that he would be recommending to Town Clerk Royston King that  city workers complete the demolition of the Astor Cinema and have the cost of the works attached to the rates for the property.

Trade unionist Lincoln Lewis yesterday appeared before the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into African ancestral land matters and he offered proof that an ancestor bought the village of Kingelly on the  West Coast Berbice in the 1800s and asked for assistance in reclaiming the remaining unoccupied land.

Transparency Institute Guyana Incorporated (TIGI) President Troy Thomas has told Stabroek News that he finds the recent ministerial visit to ExxonMobil’s headquarters reminiscent of the 2016 mayoral visit to Mexico in relation to parking meters which was paid for by Smart City Solutions (SCS).

The Guyana Water Inc (GWI) has recommended urgent cleaning of the tanks of six primary schools following tests to determine the amount of microbes in the water.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for a South Ruimveldt man in connection with the $2 million robbery committed on Buddy’s employees last week, shortly after they had returned from a city bank.

Three Lethem men were yesterday read a joint charge over the theft of four cows, one of which was butchered by one of them.

Major road works have been cleared for the Essequibo Coast in Region Two and Mahaicony in Region Five.

Over 100 workers of the Linden Mayor and Town Council (LM&TC) will receive a 10 percent wage increase effective from September 1, 2017.

Narcotics detectives and customs agents seized 187 pounds of cocaine, with a street value of nearly J$102 million, at the Kingston Container Terminal (KCT) on Monday in a shipment from Guyana according to loopjamaica.com.

Forty-six-year-old Deborrah Wilson is the first occupant of a duplex home constructed by the Government as part of its housing programme, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said yesterday.