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Over a month after police said they were advised by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to proceed with a cocaine trafficking charge against United Kingdom-based Guyanese Vanessa Moore, they reported yesterday that they have since been advised to withdraw it.

The trial of Jahryl Reid, who is accused of murdering Mabura businessman Colin McLean, will commence this morning at 9 before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow and a 12-member jury at the High Court in Georgetown.

After initial “teething problems,” Chairman of the Mon Repos/La Reconnaissance Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) Ayube Mohammed says the council has gotten work done, including improving garbage collection.

A team from the Ophthalmological Society of the West Indies (OSWI) is  currently in Guyana and will be doing two corneal transplants, GINA reported.

Ahead of the opening session for the first ever Coconut Festival to be held in Guyana this evening, farmers/producers raised the issue about the supply of coconuts  for their business and the state of old plantations.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced his “separation” from the United States yesterday, declaring he had realigned with China as the two agreed to resolve their South China Sea dispute through talks.

A man is now critical at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was beaten by another man with a cricket bat.

EAST AND NORTH OF MOSUL, Iraq,  (Reuters) – The offensive to seize back Mosul from Islamic State is going faster than planned, Iraq’s prime minister said yesterday, as Iraqi and Kurdish forces launched a new military operation to clear villages on the city’s outskirts.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says it will provide technical help to the community of Kamarang following an outbreak of diarrhoea which has been blamed on the lack of potable water.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s electoral council last night suspended the next phase of a recall referendum against unpopular President Nicolas Maduro, drawing fire from the opposition.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazilian prosecutors said yesterday they charged 22 people, 21 of them with qualified homicide, for their roles in the collapse of a tailings dam at the Samarco Mineração SA iron ore mine last November that killed 19 people.

The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) yesterday re-launched its website during a ceremony in the Ministry of Agriculture’s Boardroom.

LONDON/OSLO,  (Reuters) – Oil majors including Statoil, Shell and Chevron are experimenting with various technologies, from drones and drill design to data management, to drive down costs and weather a deep downturn.

The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) and the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) are engaged in active discussions with Demerara Timbers Limited (DTL) as it relates to the operations of the Company, the renewal of its Timber Sales Agreement (TSA) and the company honouring its financial obligations to the Guyana Forestry Commission.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Dialogue between Venezuela’s feuding leftist government and the opposition will be a slow and difficult process but it must not be abandoned, the country’s newly-named Roman Catholic Cardinal Baltazar Porras said yesterday.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Former PDVSA President Rafael Ramirez denied as “irresponsible lies” a Venezuelan congressional investigation accusing the state oil company of corruption to the tune of $11 billion during his decade-long tenure.

A miner was yesterday fined $25,000 by a city magistrate after he pleaded guilty to assaulting another man.

WASHINGTON/DELAWARE, Ohio, (Reuters) – Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said rsday he would accept the result of the Nov.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Eduardo Cunha, the former head of Brazil’s lower house of Congress who led the impeachment drive against former President Dilma Rousseff, was arrested yesterday on corruption charges.

(Reuters) – Two doses of a vaccine that protects against cervical and several other types of cancer are enough for 11-to 12-year-olds, rather than the previous three-shot regimen, the U.S.