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YANGON, (Reuters) – Myanmar’s newspapers and social media users reacted with anger and disappointment yesterday to the government’s decision to include 155 Chinese in a mass amnesty, just eight days after they were jailed for illegal logging.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – One person was killed and dozens were detained following looting of supermarkets in Venezuela’s southeastern city of Ciudad Guayana, the state governor said yesterday, amid the ongoing food shortages in the recession-hit OPEC nation.

The police say that investigations are being conducted into the circumstances surrounding the death of Davonan Sookram, 37 years, of Philadelphia, EBE, whose decomposing body was found at about 1200h.

Four Guyanese who were sentenced in 2009 to long jail terms in Barbados over drug trafficking have been allowed by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to appeal a ruling of the Barbados Court of Appeal denying their application to appeal their convictions because time had run out.

(Trinidad Express) West Indies will no longer be touring Zimbabwe. While the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is still looking at other avenues to give the regional side a chance at qualifying for the 2017 Champions Trophy, India is not one of them.

HARARE, (Reuters) – The American dentist who killed Cecil the lion was a “foreign poacher” who paid for an illegal hunt and he should be extradited to Zimbabwe to face justice, environment minister Oppah Muchinguri said today.

The Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) has indicated that it could be ready to hold the long-awaited local government elections by December, according to Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan.

After spending three days in police custody, self-confessed “death squad” member Shawn Hinds was yesterday released on bail, without cooperating with the ranks regarding the revelations he made during a recent interview with HGPTV Nightly News.

Three months after a criminal complaint was filed against him, former Health Minister Dr Bheri Ramsaran was charged yesterday with using insulting language against rights activist Sherlina Nageer.

A new bail application for Anthony David, one of the four men charged with robbing Land Court judge Nicola Pierre and her husband Mohamed Chand, was denied yesterday, even after the prosecutor in the case was unable to tell the court what evidence the police has that implicates him in the crime.

The opposition PPP/C’s Ganga Persaud has 14 days to file an affidavit in answer to a summons from the representative of the APNU+AFC candidates’ list Harold Lutchman seeking “further and better particulars” from the elections petition he has filed challenging the results of the May 11th polls.

The opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic will be in parliament in time for the presentation and debate of the 2015 National Budget.

Construction at the Celina’s Atlantic Resort at the Kitty seawall has come to a complete halt and no plan has been proposed to have the construction approved and continued.

Magistrate Annette Singh has still not received directions from the High Court on how to proceed on the conviction of Samuel Hinds Jnr, who has been found guilty of beating his sister-in-law Tenza Lane and threatening her with a gun last year.

Police are investigating the shooting of 23-year-old Desmond McPherson last night as the man clings to life at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.

CGX Energy Inc. yesterday donated $1M to the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) to help fund the organisation’s annual Emancipation celebrations.

A motion was passed last evening to change the composition of the four sectoral oversight committees to reflect the government’s parliamentary majority.

Writer Ryhaan Shah was robbed during an attack outside her Irving Street, Queenstown home yesterday.

The suspected robber who was shot dead by police in a confrontation after a robbery near the Number 61 Village beach has been identified as Delroy Cort, of Manchester Village, Corentyne.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge yesterday announced that the government has enacted regulations to close the lines across the mouths of the three largest navigable rivers of Guyana, the Essequibo, Demerara and Berbice rivers.