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Harvard-bound Guyanese scholar Kelly Hyles has embarked on a mission to spread motivation to Guyanese students as they carve their own paths to success.

With the help of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), a labour force survey that determine the official unemployment rate will begin in January 2017, Chief Statistician Lennox Benjamin says.

The rehabilitation of Carifesta Avenue that will see it upgraded to facilitate more traffic is expected to be finished by the end of July.

A New York-based child care worker was yesterday fined $140,000 after she admitted to attempting to smuggle birds out of the country.

Attorney Gaumattie Singh has been charged with dangerous driving after she allegedly caused a three-vehicle collision.

A mother of eight has been searching desperately for her missing child, who was last seen on Monday last.

The reclusive pensioner whose bloated body was discovered at his East Canje Village home, died as a result of a heart attack.

Oudit Chinapen, who allegedly caused the accident that resulted in the driver for the Speaker of the National Assembly losing his left arm, yesterday faced two charges and was released on $20,000 bail after pleading not guilty.

Taxi driver Seon Greene, who is on trial for causing the death of cyclist Mohammed Khan by dangerous driving, told a court yesterday that it was the deceased who hit his vehicle and not the other way around.

The defective koker that had resulted in the flooding of the Little Diamond community is now working and the new door and upgrades to the sluice are expected to be installed soon.

Defence attorney Adrian Thompson yesterday asked Magistrate Zamilla Ally-Seepaul to find Premnauth Samaroo, Anthony David and Nicholas Narine innocent in the robbery of Justice Nicola Pierre and her family, while arguing that they had not been properly identified.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Bombs killed nearly 150 people and wounded at least 200 in Jableh and Tartous on Syria’s Mediterranean coast yesterday in the government-controlled territory that hosts Russian military bases, monitors and state media said.

A former General Manager of El Dorado Trading and another man who were among four persons charged with committing a brazen $93 million gold heist in 2013, earlier this month decided to change their pleas to guilty and were sentenced to jail time by Magistrate Alex Moore.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Despite a tense economic and social crisis enveloping his nation, Venezuelan President Nicolas  Maduro on Sunday came to an agreement with Prime Minister Andrew Holness to boost ties through the PetroCaribe oil-purchasing arrangement under which Jamaica and other Caribbean nations have benefited considerably over the past 10 years.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s interim government was rocked on Monday by the loss of one of its  key  figures, Planning  Minister  Romero Juca, who stepped aside amid accusations he had conspired to obstruct the country’s biggest-ever corruption investigation.

A man charged with stealing a bicycle indicated to the court on Friday that he would need to see a receipt before he could repay the complainant for it.

(Reuters) – The  Venezuelan bottler of Coca-Cola has halted production of sugar-sweetened beverage due to a lack of sugar, a Coca-Cola Co spokeswoman said yesterday.

MANILA (Reuters) – More than three months have passed since $81 million was stolen in a brazen cyber-heist from Bangladesh’s central bank and sent to Manila – yet authorities in the Philippines appear no closer to nabbing those who laundered most of the money through a bank and casinos here.

A miner was remanded to prison after he was charged in a city court with unlawful wounding.

The effort to bring those responsible for financial transgressions found by audits is being slowed by fearful witnesses, according to Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan who was asked about the apparent lack of prosecutions and sloth in prosecuting errant public officials, GINA said.