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SEOUL/BEIJING,  (Reuters) – South Korea was on heightened alert yesterday ahead of another important anniversary in North Korea, with a large concentration of military hardware amassed on both sides of the border amid concerns about a new nuclear test by Pyongyang.

WASHINGTON/SPRING, Tx.,  (Reuters) – The United States will not make an exception for American companies, including oil major Exxon Mobil Corp, seeking to drill in areas prohibited by U.S.

A housewife was remanded to prison yesterday by a city magistrate after being charged with trying to smuggle cannabis into the Camp Street prison for her common-law husband.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Eight people were electrocuted  during a looting incident in Caracas, a firefighter said yesterday, amid violent protests against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by opponents accusing him of seeking to create a dictatorship.

SAO PAULO, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – An international human rights commission has accused Brazil of failing to obey its own constitution and ringfence ancient tribal territories in a landmark court case that pits the state against indigenous people.

(Reuters) – Tesla Inc founder and Chief Executive Elon Musk said his latest company Neuralink Corp is working to link the human brain with a machine interface by creating micron-sized devices.

Junior Natural Resources Minister Simona Broomes has said that as the ministry moves to put provisions in place to protect small miners, only those with under 10 blocks of land will be able to become members of mining syndicates.

The Guyana Police Force tonight  refuted claims by a section of the media (MTV News Update Ch.

The No VAT on Education Movement comprising parents and students in the private education system, says it is continuing to advocate its case for the Government to remove VAT on private education.

New York-based Guyanese businessman Edul Ahmad was today sentenced to two years in jail for attempting and conspiracy to commit mail fraud.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago businessman Robert Bermudez has been selected as the next chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI), in a paradigm shift to enable the university to generate its own funds and become less dependent on State financing.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The number of people dying from hepatitis is rising, and most of the 325 million infected are unaware they have the virus and lack access to potentially life-saving medicines, the World Health Organization said on Friday.

Manager of the Guyana Gold Board, Lisaveta Ramotar has been sent on administrative leave, with immediate effect, to facilitate the Guyana Police Force’s investigation of allegations of money laundering, a letter she received yesterday stated.

Two days after she found herself at the centre of allegations of using her office to get preferential treatment at the Fort Wellington Hospital, APNU+AFC Region Five Councillor, Carol Joseph has resigned.

With the University of Guyana (UG) council rejecting a plan to rent the complex at Camp and Lamaha streets, in Georgetown, the plans by one of its intended sub-lessees, the Ministry of Public Health’s Maternal and Child Health Department, to occupy the building now appear to be in limbo.

A mother of five is now behind bars on an attempted murder charge after she allegedly stabbed her common-law husband near his heart in a drunken scuffle, leaving him in a critical condition.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday confirmed that there has been a report of a plot by a group of men to assassinate the president during one of his outreaches.

A Mocha man was yesterday charged with sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl.

A contract for US$364,727 for an overhead pedestrian crossing at Diamond, East Bank Demerara has been awarded to S Jagmohan Hardware Supplies and Construction Services.

Jermaine Hermanstyne and Karen Van Sluytman, two organisers of the group that has been calling for the removal of the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) President Patrick Yarde and some members of the union’s executive council, say attempts have been made to tarnish their reputations at their workplaces.