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(Trinidad Express) A total of 660,375 calls were intercepted by the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) in 2015, according to a report laid by National Security Minister Edmund Dillon in the Parliament.

United labour leaders yesterday urged the APNU+AFC administration to deliver on promises to unions and to act to reverse the decline of the economy, while the government’s representative argued that some progress has been made.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) and members of the opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) yesterday took aim at government’s plans for the sugar industry, while urging that it reconsider closing estates or privatisation.

The origin of 476 pounds of gold, believed to have originated from Guyana before being stolen in Curacao in in 2012, is not being investigated by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) even though questions continue to linger and an audit of the Guyana Gold Board found that the initial local probe was sloppy, presumably to protect those who may have been involved in the shipment.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of KSM Investments Inc Mahadeo Panchu is of the firm belief that the company can make a difference by supplying all projects, both private and public, with quality building supplies that will last a “lifetime and beyond.”

The police have two suspects in custody in connection with the murder of Covent Garden student Brian Charles Yearwood, who was stabbed on Saturday night while attending a school concert and a knife suspected to be the murder weapon has been found at the house of one of the suspects.

A doctor of the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) was attacked on Sunday by a patient and the patient’s relatives after being informed that the hospital’s x-ray department was closed.

Director of the Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) Marlan Cole says the soon-to-be-established Caribbean Regulatory System (CRS) will not ban generic pharmaceuticals from entering Guyana but will in fact ensure that the drugs entering the country are approved as being of a high quality.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s unpopular socialist President Nicolas Maduro announced yesterday the creation of a new popular assembly with the ability to re-write the constitution, which foes decried as a power-grab to stifle weeks of anti-government unrest.

Former murder accused Jamil Charles was on Friday charged in a city court with last year’s $9 million Princess Casino last year.,

CARACAS (Reuters) – Security forces fired tear gas at youths throwing stones and petrol bombs yesterday as  Venezuela’s opposition began a second month of protests against socialist President Nicolas Maduro.

Work on the Liliendaal Bridge along the Railway Embankment is nearing completion and Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson has said that it should be finished before Independence Day.

WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump yesterday opened the door to meeting North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, saying he would be honoured to meet the young leader under the right circumstances, even as Pyongyang suggested it would continue its nuclear weapons tests.

HAVANA (Reuters) – A protester waving a US flag briefly disrupted May Day celebrations in Havana, running out in front of hundreds of thousands of Cubans set to march across Revolution Square before being tackled and carried away.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – More than a dozen members of an indigenous tribe were injured in a dispute over land in northern Brazil, including at least one whose hands were hacked off, according to reports from indigenous rights groups yesterday.

Eighty-eight young people, including a 12-year-old boy, graduated on Sunday from the Youth Leadership Training Programme, which was hosted at the Madewini Training Centre on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway, by the Office of the Presidential Advisor on Youth Empowerment.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain can no longer rely on US leadership on Middle East policy and must work more closely with Europe to ensure the Iran nuclear deal stays in place, among other policies, a committee of lawmakers said in a report today.

New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation has agreed to supply to the GPHC, replacements for a defective batch of soda lime which is used to assist patients to breathe while under anaesthesia.

(Trinidad Guardian) A man accused of kidnapping a three-year-old girl 12 years ago is one of two men shot dead in separate killings in San Fernando and Moruga on Saturday.

On the eve of the second anniversary of the May 11, 2015 General Elections, the Alliance For Change (AFC) has appointed a team to review the Cummingsburg Accord which birthed the historic coalition that ended the PPP/C’s 23-year reign in office.