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By the end of this year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hopes to bring 40% of large manufacturing companies, fuel depots and other categories in regions 4, 3 and 6 into the environmental authorisation process.

Home furnishing company, Courts is inviting applicants for three scholarships to the University of Guyana.

Government has proposed the development and implementation of a National Youth Empowerment Action Plan (NYEAP) that supports focused and strategic youth development.

Last evening at the Theatre Guild, Kingston was all about `folklore and rights’, the theme Guyana will be taking when they arrive later this week to celebrate the twelfth staging of the Caribbean Festival of Arts in Haiti.

The Music School recently concluded its Music is Fun programme where 105 participants completed training in the basics of music education.

Consumed with a passion to work for a transformed Guyana, ex-convict Tameshwar Beekham on Friday withstood the mid-morning sun in Georgetown as he protested, calling for President David Granger to open a Commission of Inquiry (COI) into former President Bharrat Jagdeo’s twelve-year tenure.

Over two weeks after a suspect was captured on camera battering 77-year-old Danrasie ‘Carmen’ Ganesh to death, he is yet to be apprehended by police.

At about 1600h on Saturday, the police say that pedestrian Rudolph Ramsammy, 72 years, of Adventure, Soesdyke/ Linden Highway, attempted to cross the roadway at Adventure and was struck down by a motor car.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. civil rights leader and former head of the NAACP Julian Bond, who emerged as one of the pre-eminent student activists in America’s turbulent 1960s, died on Saturday aged 75.

BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Latin America’s booming urban slums look set to continue their rapid expansion as government housing policies fail to tackle an explosion in informal housing, legal experts said yesterday.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – An Indonesian search and rescue plane spotted debris yesterday believed to be from a crashed aircraft with 54 people on board in Papua province, the local police chief said.

(Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump would increase fees on some Mexican visas and all border crossing cards as part of a broader plan to force Mexico to pay for a wall along the southern U.S.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators returned to the streets in dozens of Brazilian cities yesterday to call for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, blaming her for a vast corruption scandal and the economy’s worst slump in a quarter century.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Josefina Vidal receives a check from the United States for $4,085 once a year, rent money for the U.S.

HARARE, (Reuters) – Zimbabwe has lost 20,000 jobs in the last month after a court ruled that companies can fire workers by giving them three months’ notice, the main labour union said yesterday, as the government moved to amend the labour law to stop further losses.

At about 0345h today, the police say that two men armed with a cutlass and a firearm entered the home of vendors Abdool Kadir, 47 years, and his wife Neeranie Kadir, 46 years, at No.

At about 1600h yesterday, the police say that pedestrian Rudolph Ramsammy, 72 years, of Adventure, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, attempted to cross the roadway at Adventure and was struck down by a motor car.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – An Indonesian twin-turboprop aircraft carrying 54 people lost contact with air traffic control today in the remote, forested eastern Papua region, the National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) said, with search efforts hampered by failing light as night falls.

The construction of several roads and schools in Region Four are among the planned capital projects that will be on hold until next year, according to the Regional Executive Officer Deolall Rooplall, who yesterday announced the postponement of all major works in the region.

Story and photos by Shabna Ullah Mathews Ridge, North West District with its hills, mountains and pristine rainforest is magnificent, its people are friendly and hospitable, but the community has a common problem – the state of its main road.