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Justice Dawn Gregory yesterday granted the Food and Drug Department an additional 14 days to submit its written arguments defending its decision to deny entry into the country of a container of condensed milk from Malaysia.

Relatives of Orville Valentine, the Sentinel Security guard who was run over by a Hilux pickup on June 6 have moved him to a private hospital after his condition worsened.

A Crabwood Creek man has been detained by the police after fire gutted his two-storey home on Wednesday, an incident which rendered his wife, whom he reportedly abused, temporarily speechless.

Kwakwani residents were able to apply for birth, marriage and death certificates when the General Registrar’s Office (GRO) held a two-day outreach in their community.

Residents of Diamond Housing Scheme on the East Bank Demerara continue to suffer from the limited supply of potable water to the community due to the malfunctioning well and the contractor says by weekend, they will know whether the problem has been fixed.

About 20 Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) company workers, led by the Guyana Postal and Telegraph Workers Union (GPTWU), yesterday protested what was described as “impositions” by the company as it relates to changing employees’ conditions of service.

A Route 40 minibus driver plans to take legal action against several traffic ranks of the Brickdam Police Station after he was allegedly beaten and left with a dislocated shoulder and bruises to the body.

BIRSTALL, England, (Reuters) – A British member of parliament was shot dead in the street yesterday, causing deep shock across Britain and the suspension of campaigning for next week’s referendum on the country’s EU membership.

A workshop was held yesterday to finalise the Project Implementation Work plan for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)/ Disaster Risk Management (DRM).

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s tourism minister resigned yesterday, less than two months before the country hosts the Olympics, as the government of interim President Michel Temer lost its third minister in a month to a sweeping graft probe of state oil company Petrobras.

ORLANDO, Fla.,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama yesterday met survivors of a massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub and relatives of the 49 people killed and said the United States must act to control gun violence and fight what he called homegrown terrorism.

Residents of the La Grange/Nismes local authority area are being urged to pay their rates and taxes or face legal action.

(Jamaica Observer) The Commission of Enquiry into the May 2010 security forces operation in West Kingston has recommended compensation, without delay, and an apology to residents for some actions of the State agents during the event.

LIMA, (Reuters) – A Peruvian prosecutor said yesterday that late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and two Brazilian construction companies may have bankrolled President Ollanta Humala’s campaigns before he took office in 2011.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 750-room Sandals Resorts is earmarked for Tobago, as Government seeks to make the island a tourism destination in a bid to generate revenue, jobs and foreign exchange, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s center-right President Mauricio Macri is taking down portraits and closing museums and other tributes to his left-leaning predecessors, getting rid of their cultural legacies as well as their populist economic policies.

Caribbean Airlines was yesterday given an ultimatum by Guyana to honour contractual agreements pertaining to purchases made by passengers using the CJIA duty-free facility or see their service here terminated.

Acting Police Commissioner David Ramnarine yesterday said that despite persons being charged in connection with the recent grenade throwing incident, police investigators are continuing to pursue the intellectual authors.

Even as Dynamic Airways continues to investigate the misplacement of the passport of a United States-based Berbice woman, who has been stranded here since last Saturday, it yesterday promised to return her and family to their home free of charge.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised that no charge be laid against PPP/C MP Nigel Dharamlall over alleged threatening behaviour towards an employee of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) office in Guyana.