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Guyana and Venezuela last evening agreed to receive their respective ambassadors with Venezuela also accepting an investigative United Nations team which afterwards will report to the UN Secretary General for a decision on the way forward.

The government has not been transparent enough in all of its actions in its first 100 days in office, including in the appointment of ministers, which was “untidy,” Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc (TIGI) President Calvin Bernard says.

A police officer in training is now dead after his motorcycle slammed head on into a speeding car early yesterday morning.

Three people are now dead after three separate accidents yesterday and on Saturday morning.

Decisions made by the Defence Board with respect to Coast Guard head Gary Beaton and his alleged connection to a vehicle transfer scandal is not for the public’s ears, according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon.

Chairman of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guy-SuCo) Dr Clive Thomas has said the commercialisation of key assets along the coast could provide much-needed revenue streams for the cash-strapped state company.

Head of the State Assets Recovery Unit (SARU) Dr Clive Thomas said that the lease by which Red House was let to a company linked to the former PPP administration has to be re-valuated as market principles must determine the price or lease of public property.

  A man suffered third degree burns yesterday after he fell into a trash heap which flared up.

Two years after a fire destroyed its main warehouse at Ogle East Coast Demerara, Beepats Company Limited has commissioned a 75,400 square feet state-of-the art warehouse facility at Dennis Street, Sophia.

A storage facility in Happy Acres, East Coast Demerara was incinerated after a fire which followed an explosion engulfed the two-storey building.

OTTAWA (Reuters) – With Canada’s three main political parties all getting around 30 per cent support in polls, the odds of a period of political instability after the October 19 election are rising.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia ap-peared to seize the initiative in international efforts to end the conflict in Syria yesterday as Washington scrambled to devise a new strategy for the war-ravaged country and France sent warplanes to bomb Islamic State targets.

BARCELONA (Reuters) – Separatists have won a clear majority of seats in Catalonia’s parliament, preliminary official results showed yesterday, in an election that set the region on a collision course with Spain’s central government over independence “Catalans have voted yes to independence,” acting Catalan regional government head Artur Mas told supporters, with secessionist parties on track to secure 72 out of 135 seats in the powerful region of 7.5 million people that includes Barcelona.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Blasting hard-line conservatives as “false prophets,” US House Speaker John Boehner yesterday said Congress will avoid a government shutdown this week and he will push through as much unfinished legislation as possible before leaving at the end of October.

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia intends to refuse a visa for US singer and hip-hop star Chris Brown, a government spokesman said yesterday, following through on a threat made last week over the singer’s history of domestic violence.

President David Granger (right) meeting this evening at the United Nations with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (left).

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell has labelled as “disturbing” claims by West Indies head coach, Phil Simmons, of outside interference in the selection of the One-Day International squad for Sri Lanka.

Foreign Affairs Minister, Carl Greenidge and his counterpart of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov, today signed an agreement, on behalf of their countries, which will facilitate visa free travel for citizens, between the two States, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said.

The Guyana government says that while there has been a withdrawal of the Venezuelan military gunboat from within its territory and a scaling back of troops in towns close to the border it continues to be vigilant.

President David Granger says that he is convinced that the outcome would be favourable, in terms of the region remaining a zone of peace now that Cuba has been briefed on the territorial threat Guyana faces from Venezuela.