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-after posing as customers   A Parfait Harmonie, West Bank Demerara shop owner and her brother were beaten and robbed yesterday when six gunmen, two of whom posed as customers, attacked her business.

While the United States is currently assisting Guyana in putting mechanisms in place to address any occurrence of an offshore oil spill, it also recognises that work must be done to put policies in place to ensure sound environmental practices for the petroleum sector.

-management denies removal due to pregnancy National Communications Network (NCN) journalist Natasha Smith is calling for a full probe to be done by the Clerical and Commercial Workers Union (CCWU), the Guyana Press Association (GPA) and the Ministry of Social Protection to determine why she was relieved of her duties as a news presenter.

The taxi driver who hit and killed Osmond Griffith, the main witness in the faeces assault on newspaper columnist Freddie Kissoon, will today face charges, including causing the man’s death.

The Region One Administration is seeking to convert an abandoned bond in Central Port Kaituma into a market to relocate some of the vendors from the congested waterfront.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) on Friday said that its arrears collection up to July this year was $921m and not the $1.8b it had erroneously stated at a press conference on August 10, 2016.

310 nurses, including midwives and professional students graduated from the Georgetown School of nursing on Thursday at a ceremony at the National Cultural Centre.

The first fifteen families to benefit from improved housing under a US$3.1M project will be from the community of Sebai, in the Matarkai Sub-District of Region One (Barima/Waini).

HANGZHOU, China, (Reuters) – Leaders from the world’s top economies broadly agreed at a summit in China yesterday to coordinate macroeconomic policies, but few concrete proposals emerged to meet growing challenges to globalisation and free trade.

VIENTIANE, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama canceled what would have been his first meeting with Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte, after Duterte described Obama in vulgar terms, a White House spokesman said yesterday.

An Eccles man is upset after bandits raided the apartment of one of his tenants, just days after he himself was held up in the area.

CANFIELD, Ohio/CLEVELAND,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton opened a final two-month sprint to the Nov.

A 31-year-old man is now admitted at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was stabbed last night in his abdomen by his child’s mother.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezue-lan President Nicolas Maduro has enlisted a Spanish academic he has hailed as the “Jesus Christ of economics” to help the South American country manage chronic product shortages.

Villagers of Nappi in Central Rupununi, Region Nine showcased their culture at their Indigenous Heritage Month celebrations on Saturday and the government handed over bicycles and a brush cutter which had been previously promised.

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Forjas Taurus SA, the largest weapons manufacturer in Latin America, sold guns to a known Yemeni arms trafficker who funneled them into his nation’s civil war in violation of international sanctions, according to charges in court documents reviewed by Reuters.

(Trinidad Express) The woman who went to study in India, but met harsh conditions she could not cope with, has returned to Trinidad, exhausted but grateful.Raynuka

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Two people were shot dead at a pre-dawn Caribbean heritage celebration in New York despite ramped-up efforts by police and community activists to prevent the violence that has plagued the annual event in years past, authorities said yesterday.

Months after receiving an award for Best Male Gospel Artist at this year’s Guyana Music Awards, singer-songwriter Samuel Medas has been nominated for the Caribbean Gospel Music Marlin Awards in seven categories.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil yesterday banned IESA Oil & Gas from government work for paying bribes, the third construction and engineering company barred in the massive graft and political kickbacks scandal involving contracts with state oil company Petrobras.