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A GPHC press release said it was the second visit by the team to Guyana.

The shortlists for The Guyana Prize for Literature will be announced on October 31st, 2015, the Management Commit-tee for the awards announced yesterday.

The Government Analyst–Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) is advising against the sale and purchase of misleading brands of evaporated milk and evaporated filled milk in circulation locally.

Yesterday marked on year since the disappearance of Troy Greenidge, whose mother is still seeking the public’s help to find him.

ABUJA, (Reuters) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has chosen a cabinet dominated by political veterans, opting to strengthen his power base rather than surround himself with technocrats who could overhaul Africa’s biggest economy.

A mason, who was charged with simple larceny in August, was yesterday found not guilty of the crime.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s top court yesterday struck down a law giving Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government a bigger say in the appointment of top judges, calling the new system harmful to judicial independence in the world’s largest democracy.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A billionaire real estate developer from Macau accused by U.S.

Two taxi drivers are currently hospitalised at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), both in critical condition, after they were attacked between Thursday night and yesterday morning in two separate carjackings in the city.

Next Thursday’s sitting of the National Assembly will see the government being asked about expenses incurred in relation to a series of presidential inauguration events.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Until last week they were political enemies. Now there is a sudden, if tenuous, truce between President Dilma Rousseff and a man who is more often her nemesis, the speaker of the lower house of Congress.

OUAGADOUGOU, (Reuters) – The leader of last month’s failed coup in Burkina Faso, General Gilbert Diendere, has been charged with crimes against humanity, a senior military justice official said yesterday.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Low commodity prices, a drought at home and Venezuela’s economic crisis have created a cash shortage for Cuba’s Communist government, restricting its ability to trade just as it could be taking advantage of an economic opening with the United States.

President David Granger has defended salary hikes for his ministers which range as high as 50% for those in Cabinet.

(Barbados Nation) TWO ST MICHAEL teenagers have been jointly charged with the offence of serious bodily harm in connection with the death of Guyanese Brinsley Warde.

Thursday’s sitting of the National Assembly will see the government being asked about expenses incurred in relation to a series of presidential inauguration events.

At about 1945h. last night, the police say that taxi-driver Coiln Ageday, 53 years, of Golden Grove, EBD, was attacked by two men armed with firearms at “A” Field, Sophia.

Attorney General Basil Williams says it is only a matter of time before his chambers will seek to file civil action against five former ministers and others named in a State Assets Recovery Unit (SARU) report who accessed property in the controversial Pradoville 2 housing scheme on the East Coast of Demerara.

Against the backdrop of territorial threats from Venezuela and Suriname, President David Granger yesterday unveiled a Total National Defence policy which among other things calls for an upgrade and re-organisation of the army and the re-establishment of a reserve force.

Almost two dozen citizens yesterday picketed the Ministry of the Presidency over the 50% pay hike for Cabinet members, which they said should be reconsidered.