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Eight months after the APNU+AFC government created a ruckus over the discovery that a group close to the PPP/C had a 99-year lease on historic Red House at a peppercorn rate, the situation remains the same.

The Police yesterday said that the reputed husband of Simone Hackett has admitted murdering her on Saturday.

The Linden Television Station has started broadcast tests and is set to begin transmitting on Channel 13 in that region soon.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) will spend over $100M on corrective works to core homes built by contractors under the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Administration, according to Board Chairman Hamilton Green.

Recent rainfall and inadequate drainage have left some vendors selling along the Merriman Mall, between Orange Walk and Cummings Streets, waterlogged.

-fire service took around eight minutes to arriveOfficer-in-Charge of the Georgetown Prison, Superintendent Kevin Pilgrim yesterday said that using the adjoining dorm to fight the deadly fire in the Capital A Division, where 17 inmates died last month, would have required sending his officers into a “fatal funnel.”

The waitress who was stabbed by her common-law husband on Wednesday evening is currently in stable condition.

A carpenter was on Tuesday remanded to prison after being charged with having an unlicensed gun and ammunition.

The sister of Daymeion Millington, one of the five men on trial for the robbery of Justice Nicola Pierre, yesterday testified that her brother was at home on the night of the attack but she never informed police because she did not like the “environment” at the police station.

The police have been granted court approval to further detain the five persons who are currently in custody over the killings of Mohamed and Jamilla Munir.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s central bank was vulnerable to hackers because it did not have a firewall and used second-hand, $10 switches to network computers connected to the SWIFT global payment network, an investigator into one of the world’s biggest cyber heists said.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela will begin cutting electricity supplies amid a prolonged drought that has limited power generation, the electricity minister said yesterday, an unpopular measure for a population already struggling to obtain food and medicine.

Anthony Seals, the driver for Speaker of the National Assembly Barton Scotland, recently had his left arm amputated following an accident at Chateau Margot, on the East Coast of Demerara.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping has been appointed commander-in-chief of a new joint command headquarters for China’s military, state media said, part of an on-going reform programme to modernise the world’s largest armed forces.

(Reuters) – SunEdison Inc, once the fastest-growing U.S. renewable energy company, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday after a short-lived but aggressive binge of debt-fueled acquisitions proved unsustainable.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama made an impassioned appeal on Friday for Britain to remain in the European Union, saying membership had magnified Britain’s place in the world and made the bloc stronger and more outward looking.

NEW YORK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Nations on the verge of eliminating malaria risk falling short of their goal, just as it lies within reach, due to funding being shifted elsewhere, researchers said yesterday.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – An international arbitration center has ordered Venezuela to pay British cattle company Vestey Group nearly $100 million for the nationalization of cattle ranches, pilling fresh pressure on the cash-strapped leftist government.

(Reuters) – Prince, the innovative U.S. music superstar whose songwriting and eccentric stage presence electrified fans around the world with hits including “Purple Rain” and “When Doves Cry,” died today in Minnesota.

At approximately 13:09 hrs today, the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) says its Drug Enforcement and Goods Examination Units along with the Port Control Unit (PCU) were in the process of examining a consignment of 5/8 inches of plywood destined for Florida in the United States of America when upon closer examination, anomalies were detected within the consignment.