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A 23-year-old man was yesterday remanded to prison after being slapped with several counts of illegal gun and ammunition possession.

A man was yesterday released on bail after being accused of stealing a quantity of articles from a family friend.

On October 31 between 7.30 am and 3 pm, Scotiabank Robb Street branch will host its annual cake sale fundraiser to aid in breast cancer prevention and treatment programmes.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) trained three members of staff of the Bahamas Bureau of Standards (BBS) in Metrology (weights and measures.)

A cervical cancer awareness and screening campaign starts today, with medical teams conducting outreaches in parts of Region Four as well as Charity and Wakapoa, located in the Pomeroon riverine area of Region Two.

(Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron said his administration would not make reparations for the country’s role in the Caribbean slave trade, the BBC reported yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday an-nounced that the British Government will help fund the construction of a prison here, where Jamaicans in-carcerated in England will complete their sentences.

MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russia launched air strikes in Syria yesterday in its biggest Middle East intervention in decades, plunging the four-year-old civil war into a volatile new phase as President Vladimir Putin moved forcefully to stake out influence in the unstable region.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – At least 10 million poor people face hunger this year and next because of droughts and erratic rains linked to record global temperatures and an expected “super” version of the evolving El Nino weather pattern, aid charity Oxfam has warned.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Colombia cannot punish Marxist guerrillas for war crimes as severely as some would like if the country wants a peace deal to end a 50-year conflict that has killed nearly a quarter million people, President Juan Manuel Santos told Reuters yesterday.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government has revised its economic data for 2014, showing that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) declined 4.0 percent in the worst performance around Latin America, according to a filing yesterday in the United States.

BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Indigenous people and local communities lack legal rights to almost three quarters of their traditional lands, sparking social conflict and undermining international plans to curb poverty, hunger and climate change, researchers said.

The Ministry of Public Security wishes to advise the general public that the period of amnesty for firearms has been extend to 14th October 2015, a release from the ministry said this afternoon.

Demerara Paradise Inc., a Nursing Home and Medical Services Facility opens its doors tomorrow on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of International Day of Older Persons (IDOP), a release from the home said today.

During today, the police say that acting on information received, they arrested a man at Mowasi Backdam, Mahdia, who was wanted for questioning during investigations into two separate murders at Konawaruk and Mowasi Backdam.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Head coach Phil Simmons has apologised to his fellow selectors and to the West Indies Cricket Board for his outburst last Friday, calling his actions “a schoolboy error in a moment of madness.”

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Everyone with HIV should be given anti-retroviral drugs as soon as possible after diagnosis, meaning 37 million people worldwide should be on treatment, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Counter Trafficking Unit (CTU) is calling on citizens of T&T to be observant for possible indicators of human trafficking.

A 36-year-old man died at the Georgetown Public Hospital last night after he was shot three times.

President David Granger yesterday focused his United Nations General Assembly address on the controversy over Vene-zuela’s spurious claim to Essequibo, charging that Caracas was trying to deny Guyana its birthright and calling on the UN to fulfil its pledge of collective security for small states.