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A farmer at Black Bush Polder, Corentyne was recently on a local television programme where he expressed his disapproval of a `stop off’ near an inactive koker at the trench located at the entrance to Black Bush Polder.

Dean Hassan of Tesouro Resources last week sent a team to six  orphanages around Georgetown to assist them with preparations for their return to school today, a release from the company said.

The wanted man who was shot in New Amsterdam by the police is still in the Georgetown Public Hospital in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – A humiliating state election defeat for Angela Merkel in her own backyard yesterday and another drubbing that looms in two weeks in Berlin are casting an ominous shadow over the Chancellor’s hopes of winning – or even running – for a fourth term in 2017.

(Jamaica Gleaner) One major Chinese company that has invested billions of dollars in Jamaica in the past decade, China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), is publicly denying any knowledge of an ‘established practice’ to pay bribery to Jamaican government officials.

MANILA,  (Reuters) – The body of 22-year-old pedicab driver Eric Sison lies in a coffin in a Manila slum with a chick pacing across his casket, placed there in keeping with a local tradition to symbolically peck at the conscience of his killers.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Mother Teresa of Calcutta, known as the “saint of the gutters” during her life, was declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Francis yesterday, fast-tracked to canonisation just 19 years after her death.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong residents voted yesterday in record numbers for a bitterly contested legislative election, with a push for independence among a disaffected younger generation of candidates and voters stoking tension with China’s government.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Pakistan’s one-day series against West Indies will take on special significance when the two teams clash in three matches starting later this month in the United Arab Emirates.

Jamal Munroe, 23,  of New Amsterdam who the police had been in search of over the past three weeks was yesterday morning shot by law enforcers.

(Trinidad Guardian) A father and son who were said to be inseparable died together early yesterday when their Tacarigua home caught fire.

Guyana’s imminent oil production will yield significant revenue that can create a large number of jobs in the manufacturing of value-added agricultural products and the development of its physical infrastructure, while at the same time delivering quality education for a diversified economy, United States Ambassador to Guyana Perry Holloway says.

With the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) rejecting the government’s “final offer” on public servant wages, the negotiations are likely to go straight to arbitration, according to former Labour Minister Dr Henry Jeffrey.

Acting Commissioner of Police David Ramnarine yesterday urged ranks of the Traffic Department and the Anti-Crime Unit to stop harassing the public while carrying out their duties and he warned that those found guilty of such behaviour would face strict penalties.

Ashraf Ally, known locally as the ‘River Conqueror,’ once again successfully swam across the Berbice River yesterday.

Apologising for the delay in setting up the Local Government Commission, Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan has committed to it becoming a reality by the end of this month and has also revealed that a building has already been identified to house its permanent staff.

President David Granger has committed to re-establishing an Indigenous Peoples’ Land Commission to be named by December 31, 2016.

The Georgetown municipality has challenged the right of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) to object to its decision to allow the construction of a seventh floor at the Camp and Robb streets junction, while claiming that its approval does not in any way affect the High Court injunction that was issued to block the development.

Archaeologist and renowned artist George Simon is urging government to reconsider plans to relocate the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology, highlighting a number of concerns such a move would entail and pointing out that at the moment, there is no suitable facility for the museum’s collection.

The air transportation fitness of Dynamic Airways is being reviewed by the United States Department of Transportation (DOT), following the airline’s submission of incomplete information to the agency as well as complaints by customers.