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At least two persons were rushed to the hospital yesterday afternoon after a minibus apparently lost control on Brickdam and slammed into a utility pole on Brickdam, which broke and fell onto a parked car.

Two transgender sex workers, charged with the robbery of a man, were yesterday each granted their release on $100,000 bail.

A soldier is now free on $70,000 bail after being accused of having marijuana in his possession.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) intends for 2017 to be the year that it embraces its statutory responsibility for planning.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA (Reuters) – A Florida man killed his girlfriend and wounded five others, including her two young sons and a high school student during a shooting spree with an AK-47 rifle yesterday, police said.

Two men, facing separate robbery charges, met similar fates yesterday when they were both remanded by a city magistrate.

TURBACO, Colombia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When fighting in Colombia forced Everlides Almanza to abandon her farm, she ended up in a slum near the coastal city of Cartagena where with only some plastic tarpaulin to shelter her, she longed for a new home.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – A maiden first-class hundred from West Indies Under-19 World Cup hero Kacey Carty failed to stop Windward Islands Volcanoes from a seven-wicket victory over Leeward Islands Hurricanes in the Regional 4-Day Tournament yesterday.

The yard at Lot 15 Delph Street, Campbellville, where octogenarian Celestine Neils has resided for more than 30 years, has turned into a pool of filth, which she believes is caused by the city’s poor maintenance of the alleyway located behind her.

  CARACAS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Venezuela yesterday called for the suspension of an Organization of American States meeting intended to air regional concerns over the OPEC nation’s economic crisis and democratic standards.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s Agriculture Ministry said yesterday it had ordered three more food processing facilities to suspend production amid an investigation into alleged corruption of inspectors and unsanitary conditions in the world’s biggest meat producer.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union should consider restricting visas for senior officials from African and other states which refuse to take back illegal immigrants from Europe, Germany’s interior minister said yesterday.

Students living in Lethem and travelling to and from school will now be able to benefit from a bus service at a reduced cost, compliments of the Lethem Town Council.

The need to widen the composition of the Governing Board for the Deeds and Commercial Registries Authority has stalled its establishment, according to Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Basil Williams SC.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian bank under Western economic sanctions over Russia’s incursion into Ukraine disclosed yesterday that its executives had met Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a top White House adviser, during the 2016 election campaign.

The PPP says it stands in solidarity with the hundreds of businessmen and thousands of ordinary Guyanese who are being devastated by the “unreasonable and unnecessary decision to ban the importation of used tires”, the party said in a statement today, “Businesses engaged in the sale of used tires across the country are closing their operations, thereby, putting large numbers of persons out of employment and placing them and their families on the bread line.

The Police say they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred about 2100h.

Pastor of the Albouystown Fellowship and leader of the Guyana Apostolic Team, Elsworth Quintel Williams, is the new Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA), GINA said today.

(Trinidad Express) Flights at Piarco International Airport were temporarily grounded for just over an hour yesterday after a fire alarm went off in the control tower of the Civil Aviation Authority.

The Public Telecommunications Ministry yesterday said  that GTT’s complaint against Digicel’s use of a telecoms link to Suriname is a complex matter which has raised the issue of whether the former has sufficient data capacity to meet local needs.