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Despite fewer donations and limited funding, the Guyana Relief Council (GRC) is continuing to provide disaster relief to those in need across Guyana.

Scotiabank, for the fifth consecutive year, has beaten all local competition in earning Best Digital Bank Award for 2015.

TOVARNIK, Croatia (Reuters) – Croatia threatened to close its border with Serbia yesterday as migrants fled from overwhelmed police, trekked through fields and tried to steal into Slovenia by train in a desperate march westwards that is sowing discord and recrimination in Europe.

One of the soldiers who was shot late Wednesday night was discharged from the hospital while the other is currently recovering.

TONGOY, Chile (Reuters) – Residents sifted through rubble yesterday and saved what they could from homes destroyed by a magnitude 8.3 earthquake in central Chile that killed 11 people, forced 1 million from their homes and sent giant waves crashing into coastal areas.

WASHINGTON/HAVANA (Reuters) – The White House is drafting sweeping regulations to further weaken the US trade embargo on Cuba that would ease restrictions on US companies and make it easier for Americans to travel there, US government sources said yesterday.

Residents on the West Coast Berbice were the beneficiaries of a charity drive hosted by the Dhar-mic Naujawaan (DNJ), the central youth arm of the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha.

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.