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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.

For a second day in succession, the search for a female tourist who went missing at Kaieteur National Park (KNP) on Tuesday was fruitless.

The Mayor and City Council’s (M&CC) amnesty on the interest accumulated on property rates owed to the council began on Tuesday.

Embattled Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) Director of Nursing Collene Hick is still reporting for duty though there is someone else performing her duties.

Christopher Stanley yesterday appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with Saturday’s fatal stabbing in Tiger Bay.

President David Granger yesterday met with members of the West Berbice Chamber of Commerce (WBCC) to discuss ways on which the Chamber could work with the Government.

Some of the persons linked to a gold smuggling ring between Guyana and the US including a gold dealer, had their US visas revoked since earlier this year, according to a source with knowledge of the matter.

The sub-committees of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the sugar industry have begun the preparation of reports which are to be submitted to Agriculture Minister Noel Holder at the end of the month.

The US State Department Bureau of Energy Resources’ (ENR) Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Energy Diplomacy, Robin Dunnigan, yesterday met with Minister of Governance, Raphael Trotman and Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson to discuss possible collaboration on the energy sector here.

Several vendors yesterday gathered in front of the Mayor & City Council (M&CC) in renewed protests at plans to have them move from the corner of Robb Street and Bourda to enable the demolition of the Bedford building.

Finance Minister Winston Jordan has confirmed that no state money was spent directly on the inauguration of President David Granger.

Forty-one youths yesterday graduated from the Board of Industrial Train-ing’s Skills Training programme under the auspices of the Ministry of Social Protection’s, National Training Project for Youth Empowerment in Region Four.

Agriculture Minister Noel Holder yesterday launched the National Tree Planting Day initiative in the Ministry of Agriculture Boardroom.

CALAIS, France/BUDAPEST, (Reuters) – Hundreds of migrants poured overnight onto the high-speed railway linking Paris with London near the French port of Calais, stranding passengers in darkness aboard Eurostar trains.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemalan leader Otto Perez, who is fighting to save his presidency after becoming engulfed in a corruption scandal that gutted his government and sparked widespread protests, will not flee the country, his lawyer said yesterday.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping said yesterday that China will cut its number of troops by 300,000, as he kicked off a massive military parade marking 70 years since the end of World War Two in Asia.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – A Brazilian labour court convicted units of Brazil’s Odebrecht Group of holding workers in conditions akin to slavery at an ethanol refinery construction project in Angola, Brazilian prosecutors said in a statement on Tuesday.

SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – El Salvador saw the highest number of murders last month since its bloody 12-year civil war ended in 1992 as violence between street gangs grew ever more deadly.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Swiss authorities said yesterday they had frozen funds in Swiss banks amid investigations of Malaysia’s troubled state investment fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), on suspicion of corruption and money laundering.