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Persons interested in acquiring prepaid electricity meters will soon be able to so as an adequate number of the devices are expected to be available, GINA said.

Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry  (GCCI) President Vishnu Doerga says that given the last four years of slumping business, there is need for a shift from revenue dependence on local commodities to value adding.

The Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region Three walked out of the Council’s statutory meeting yesterday along with nine councillors of the APNU+AFC coalition after the regional chairman asked for a report.

One of the five men who were captured by the police on Monday afternoon after robbing a Logwood, Enmore, East Coast Demerara (ECD) grocer has confessed to the crime and six  similar matters and is expected to be charged today.

An autopsy performed on the remains of Phillip Viveiros, the farmer whose body was found along the Adventure Public Road, Linden-Soesdyke Highway on Monday revealed that he died as a result of multiple injuries sustained.

Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan says he supports “on-going checks” of private security services to ensure that they are in conformity with the regulations that govern the sector, GINA said.

A Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo man died last month after he was attacked by a swarm of bees while on his way to the shop in the village.

The preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder of La Jalousie businessman Ganesh Ramlall, which was scheduled for Tuesday at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court, has been put off to September 9.

The preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Beverley Persaud and Oswald Yaw, who are accused of killing block maker, Nathan Persaud continued yesterday with the testimony of two policemen.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Lawrence Rowe over the killing of Cuban national, Joel Perez Laffita began yesterday with the testimony of a police officer in the case.

Three women were yesterday found guilty of fraudulently converting in excess of $48M from Telecom Solutions (Guyana) Inc.

Nine more Haitian nationals were yesterday fined by a city magistrate after they pleaded guilty to entering the country illegally.

Residents from the community of Warlock, East La Penitence, Georgetown were beneficiaries of a back-to-school drive hosted during last week by the Give Another Chance Foundation.

The hustle and bustle for the back-to-school shopping is in full swing around Georgetown as parents are busy picking up items to get their children ready for the new school term beginning on Monday.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Senate ousted President Dilma Rousseff yesterday, ending an impeachment process that polarized Latin America’s biggest country amid a massive corruption scandal and brutal economic crisis.

PHOENIX, (Reuters) – U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump vowed yesterday that anyone who is in the United States illegally would be subject to deportation if he is elected, stressing his hardline position after flirting with a softer approach.

LIBREVILLE,  (Reuters) – Demonstrators in Gabon clashed with police and set part of the parliament building on fire yesterday as anger boiled over among opposition supporters at President Ali Bongo’s re-election in polls that his main rival, Jean Ping, claimed to have won.

SANTA CLARA, Cuba, (Reuters) – The first scheduled commercial passenger flight from the United States to Cuba in more than half a century landed yesterday, opening another chapter in the Obama administration’s efforts to improve ties and increase trade and travel with the former Cold War foe.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump told Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto yesterday he would build a border wall to keep illegal migrants out if he wins the U.S.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil‘s Senate removed President Dilma Rousseff from office today for breaking budgetary laws, ending an impeachment process that has polarized the scandal-plagued country and paralyzed its politics for nine months.