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Guyana has been ranked lower on the latest Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders and the APNU+AFC government has dubbed the analysis “deeply flawed.”

The police on the Esse-quibo Coast are conducting investigations into a fatal accident that occurred on the Columbia Public Road yesterday afternoon.

A man known to police was yesterday shot by a city constable after he stole a pensioner’s wallet and attempted to flee.

Threatened by continuing erosion, Shell Beach in Region One (Barima-Waini) has been temporarily closed to tourists by the Protected Areas Commission (PAC), Project Advisor for the Sea Turtle Conservation Project Suresh Kandaswamy has said.

After four years of development, the MovieTowne complex at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara, is expected to be completed by December, and Chairman Derek Chin is looking to hire a Guyanese workforce three months prior to the planned opening.

Shelton John Bowen, the man who fatally stabbed a labourer at Bagotstown after a row over water, was charged with murder yesterday.

A murder charge was yesterday read in a city court to the suspect in the hacking to death of a Moruca businessman that was carried out last month.

The charge against the Tower Suites and Club Privilege employees, who were accused of attempting to obstruct justice by deleting video footage of a shooting that took place at the nightclub, was dismissed on Thursday after the main police witness was a no-show.

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian protesters torched buses, clashed with police in several cities and marched on President Michel Temer’s Sao Paulo residence yesterday amid the nation’s first general strike in more than two decades.Unions

Aliscia Simon, the University of Guyana (UG) business major who was charged last month with harbouring a fugitive ex-policeman, was cleared of the charge on Thursday due to insufficient evidence.

SEOUL/UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile on Saturday, South Korea’s and U.S.

A year-long prison sentence and a $1M fine were on Thursday handed down to Eloy Livan for using a fake licence plate on his car.

(Trinidad Express) “Mommy I love you. I will come with daddy to pick you up”.

DAR ES SALAAM,  (Reuters) – Tanzanian President John Magufuli on Friday ordered the immediate dismissal of more than 9,900 civil servants after a nationwide verification of academic credentials uncovered workers with forged school and college certificates.

Though accepting that it was her signature on a statement presented to the court by the prosecution, Taramattie Fredericks yesterday vehemently denied ever telling police that her son Lakeraj had called and told her that his brother-in-law Clifton Bonus had been shot.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Digicel Group generated negative cash flow for its financial year ending March 2017 but is on track to break even by 2020, according to United States-based Moody’s Investors Service, which tracks the telecommunications company’s financials.

A Tower Suites Hotel driver has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Rising crude prices helped Chevron Corp and Exxon Mobil Corp easily beat Wall Street’s profit expectations on Friday, a sign the oil industry has regained its footing after a two-year price spiral.

(Trinidad Guardian) Less than a week after taking the oath as a Judge of the High Court, Marcia Ayers-Caesar on Thursday resigned and Chief Justice Ivor Archie simultaneously announced she will be reinstated as Chief Magistrate.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Republican-led Congress averted a U.S. government shutdown yesterday and gave lawmakers another week to work out federal spending through Sept.