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ABUJA (Reuters) – The number of children forced to flee Boko Haram’s insurgency in Nigeria and neighbouring countries has reached 1.4 million, the UN children agency UNICEF said yesterday.

A section of the University of Guyana road will be closed to traffic today between 09:00 hrs and 13:00 hrs, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure has said.

BISSAU (Reuters) – Veteran politician Carlos Correia was sworn in as Guinea-Bissau’s new prime minister yesterday amid hopes that his appointment might diffuse a weeks-long political crisis in the coup-prone West African state.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s opposition parties yesterday filed a request in Congress to impeach President Dilma Rousseff for breaking fiscal rules by allegedly manipulating government finances to benefit her re-election last year.

The residents of Festival City & North Ruimveldt are tired with the crime that has descended on the community and are taking steps to rid our environment of the crimes of rape, robbery and murder, a release from a group of residents said today The first meeting to which they have invited representatives of “A” Division, The City Hall & The Ministry of Public Infrastructure will take place tomorrow at 6pm at The Lions Den , Festival City.

The People’s Progressive Party today said it is concerned at the delay of President David Granger in appointing Robeson Benn and Bibi Safora Shadick as the two new opposition Commissioners on the Guyana Elections Commission.

Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson has confirmed that there was an industrial death at the site of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport expansion project at Timehri earlier this afternoon.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board has hired the United Kingdom-based company Pitch International in a multi-year deal to develop and implement a new commercial strategy, with the aim of boosting the organization’s revenue.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Strong aftershocks rippled through Chile today after a magnitude 8.3 earthquake that killed at least eight people and slammed powerful waves into coastal towns, forcing more than a million people from their homes.

There is a higher prevalence of drug use by students from private schools than those from public schools with use of drugs occurring at a younger age, according to a survey done in 2013.

A United Nations (UN) anti-corruption agency has proposed to assist Guyana with a UN prosecutor on corruption to ensure thorough investigations of such crimes in the future.

Agitation continues to grow in the rice sector as farmers have started to reap with little hope that paddy prices will be high enough to offset their debts.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) was yesterday applauded for its efforts at monitoring ozone depleting substances, while the need for continued vigilance was underscored.

Sums totalling over $100 million have been budgeted to clean and desilt street drains, alleyways and canals as the ‘Clean-up my Country’ campaign continues.

A woman and her 13-year-old son were held at gunpoint and robbed on Tuesday night minutes after arriving from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA).

Career diplomat Marilyn Cheryl Miles has been identified to fill the post of Guyana’s ambassador to Venezuela but Venezuelan media reports say that country’s President Nicolás Maduro has ordered the suspension of the process to accredit her.

Nineteen years after the first foray into the Cuyuni region in search for gold and US$249 million in capital costs, Guyana Goldfields Inc (GGI) is now set for production of 3.29 million ounces of the precious metal over 17 years which will see at least 500 jobs and projected corporate income tax to the economy of US$509 million.

There is no word yet on the forensic audit into the Marriott Hotel with two government ministers giving conflicting positions on its completion.

A man is nursing two gunshot wounds to his leg, managing to dodge four other six bullets that were fired at him in Albouys-town yesterday.

An illegal race on the West Demerara near Vreed-en-Hoop last night, ended with two vehicles being slammed off the road, one of them flipping into a trench and left at least four persons injured.