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DNA testing will be used to confirm the identity of the remains of a man found on Monday in the ruins of a South Sophia house.

South Korea’s non-resident Ambassador to Guyana, Maeng Dal Young, says during his tour of duty, a great deal of emphasis will be placed on the expansion of commerce and investment.

BICSKE, Hungary/MUGLA, Turkey (Reuters) – Migrants forced from a train in Hungary scuffled with helmeted riot police and some clung to railway tracks yesterday, as politicians across Europe struggled to respond to public opinion appalled by images of a drowned 3-year-old boy.

ASHLAND, Ky., (Reuters) – A Kentucky county clerk was jailed yesterday for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, and a full day of court hearings failed to put an end to her two-month-old legal fight over a U.S.

ExxonMobil has reiterated its commitment to oil exploration work here and its next investment may be as early as January next year.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s parliament yesterday named an ethnic minority Tamil politician as the main opposition leader for the first time in 32 years, a sign of growing reconciliation after a prolonged civil war.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala’s Otto Perez resigned as president and was jailed yesterday while a judge weighs charging him in a corruption scandal that gutted his government and plunged the country into a political crisis days before a presidential election.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police in New Jersey are investigating the possibility that a fire which claimed the lives of a family of four with Trinidadian roots on Tuesday morning was in fact a murder suicide. 

BEIJING/MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia and Venezuela need to combine efforts to lift oil prices, President Vladimir Putin told his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro yesterday, but refused to spell out any specific action, including output cuts.

Linden call centre Toucan Connections Incorporated shut its doors recently and sent home 90 workers without paying severance.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemalan President Otto Perez has resigned, his spokesman said today, hours before he is due to appear in court over a corruption scandal that has gutted his government and plunged the country into chaos days before a national election.

Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that the government remains in election mode and as a result the PPP/C could not be expected to immediately take part in bipartisan committees proposed by President David Granger except for the one on the border.

Defects have been found in a 12 km stretch of the East Bank Berbice (EBB) road rehabilitated to the tune of $393.9M and the contractor has committed to rectifying the problems.

  A 39-year-old miner was discovered dead just after midday yesterday after the pit he was working in at Jumbie Creek, Potaro, Region 8, collapsed and buried him.

A man was yesterday morning stabbed to death after he was reportedly involved in an argument with a group of men in his Leopold Street, Georgetown apartment.

Courts (Guyana) Inc. celebrated its 22nd anniversary yesterday at its flagship store on Main Street and announced the imminent launch of its Optical Store.

As they today hold partnership talks with Cable and Wireless Communications, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph yesterday rebranded with a new logo and slogan ‘Do More’.

A fire of unknown origin last evening gutted a two-storey wooden house located at Bladen Hall leaving an elderly couple homeless and with one of them suffering burns and having to be hospitalised.

Major General (Rtd) Joseph Singh has emphasised that the Hope Canal Project was never designed to alleviate flooding along the East Coast and as such should not be depended on to provide relief in the future for flood-prone areas.

People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Clement Rohee on Tuesday, September 1, 2015, led a delegation to meet with the United Nations (UN) Mission, dispatched by Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, to Guyana to discuss options for peacefully resolving the Guyana/ Venezuela border controversy.