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The shooting range at the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Camp Ayanganna base was shut down after several bullets pierced the walls and damaged a car several hundred feet away at Stanley Place, Kitty.

Amnesty and buyback programmes to get illegal guns off the streets are set to be launched on September 1st, the Government Information Agency (GINA) has reported.

Justice is all that the still grieving relatives of Nigel Isaacs want after the man accused of fatally shooting him was freed because the police failed to obtain sufficient evidence to make the charge stick.

Police are yet to arrest the suspect in the hit and run accident at Eccles Public road on Wednesday night, which claimed the life of a woman and left her partner hospitalised.

Former Amerindian Affairs Minister Pauline Sukhai yesterday expressed her concerns about the dismissal of 1,972 Amerindians previously employed as Community Support Officers (CSOs) under the Youth Entre-preneurship and Apprenticeship Programme (YEAP).

Over a dozen former workers have accused the SAJ Rice Group Inc of wrongfully dismissing them after they moved to join a union.

A Guyanese woman is facing 25 years to life in prison if she is convicted of charges of arson in the United States, where she is accused of setting her business on fire in a scheme to collect on an insurance policy.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), while congratulating the Minister of Finance on the presentation of a fair and comprehensive budget, has expressed concerns over governmental interventions in various industries.

The two men accused of murdering Ryan Clementson, who was fatally shot in Tucville last month, were charged jointly with the crime on Friday.

HAVANA (Reuters) – The sight was so unlikely that some Cubans could scarcely believe it: a US secretary of state lecturing their Communist government about democracy and human rights on state television.

SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) – The Dominican Republic deported five people of Haitian descent yesterday under a controversial migration policy that set a deadline for undocumented foreigners to apply for temporary residence, according to local media.

The government is working on a project to incorporate the National Data Management Authority (NDMA) into its E-Governance operations, the Ministry of the Presidency announced yesterday.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Emperor Akihito marked the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two with an expression of “deep remorse” over the conflict on Saturday, a departure from his annual script which could be seen as a subtle rebuke of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

TIANJIN, China (Reuters) – The death toll from two massive explosions that tore through an industrial area in the northeastern Chinese port of Tianjin has risen to 104, state media said yesterday, as China’s president urged improvements in workplace safety.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Telecommunications powerhouse AT&T Inc has provided extensive assistance to the US National Security Agency as the spy agency conducts surveillance on huge volumes of Internet traffic passing through the United States, the New York Times reported yesterday, citing newly disclosed NSA documents.

No one could have told me that minutes after discussing the niceties of the Guyana-Chile relationship with Chile’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, I would be sprinting down Santiago’s darkening streets, eyes teary from tear-gas, trying to discern friend from foe.

The Government of Guyana is working to incorporate the operations of the National Data Management Authority (NDMA) into its E-Governance operations, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said.

Investigations are being conducted into an incident that occurred at about 2320h.

The contract awarded to Dax Construction Com-pany to complete the botched fibre optic cable laying project was yesterday terminated by the Government of Guyana.

On average, there has been just over one reported rape a day for the first seven months of the year, according to the latest statistics released by the Guyana Police Force, which recorded 243 reports up to the end of July.