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Veteran member of the Region Ten Democratic Council, Charles Sampson, refused to accept the diary that was distributed to the newly inaugurated members of the council at their first meeting on Thursday.

More than 100 children aged six to nine years old were exposed to learning about animals and their habitat, craft-making, fitness and fun while sharpening up on their biblical knowledge during the first ever Luminous Youth Federation Adventurer Camp, which was held from July 10 – 12 at the West Demerara Secondary School.

ROME (Reuters) – Italy arrested three Egyptian men who are suspected to have piloted a boat carrying more than 300 migrants to Italy from Egypt, including a 10-year-old Syrian girl whose father said she died during the sea crossing, according to Italian media.

DUBAI/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday the nuclear deal with world powers did not signal any wider shift in Iran’s relationship with Washington or its policies in the Middle East.

A 63-year-old man of Queenstown Village, Essequibo Coast was yesterday struck by a car and killed while he was walking along the Public Road in the village.

Patients at the Accident and Emergency Department of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation were treated to a moment of high drama when a prisoner being transported for treatment tried to make a run for it.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African President Jacob Zuma was admitted to hospital yesterday for a scheduled procedure to remove gallstones and was expected to be discharged Sunday, the presidency said.

A 58-year-old man is in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after an alleged drunk driver struck him down on Friday.

The resident students of President’s College now have an alternative means of electricity supply for lights during power outages.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bernard Kerik, a former New York City police commissioner and cabinet nominee who later went to prison for tax evasion and lying to White House officials, was sued on Wednesday by a woman who claimed she helped him write his recent memoir and was not credited or paid for it.

CASTELFRANCO VENETO, ITALY (Reuters) – Clusters of silkworms munch on piles of locally-grown mulberry leaves in a white marquee in Italy’s northern Veneto region.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Observer) — Twenty-one children were detained by the police during a series of operations in the St Andrew South Police Division between late Friday and early yesterday.

LISBON (Reuters) – In the past year, Lisbon’s 19th-century riverside market has soared from dilapidated oblivion to a top attraction on a zesty blend of fine food, drinks, arts and hip shopping – a concept its owners now plan to replicate in London and New York.

Weeks after she lost her reputed husband in a mining pit accident, a young mother faced added hardship when her mother-in-law forcefully removed her from the house she called home even as she fights to get some form of compensation from her husband’s employer.

MONTEGO BAY, St James (Observer) — Security Minister Peter Bunting rushed to St James on Friday for a hastily arranged tour following a bloody 24 hours in the crime-hit parish during which six people were shot and killed.

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NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Jeffrey Webb, one of seven high-ranking officials of soccer’s world governing body FIFA who were arrested in Switzerland on corruption charges, pleaded not guilty in U.S.

PROVIDENCE, Guyana, CMC-Barbados Tridents defeated Guyana Amazon Warriors by 14 runs in the 28th game of the Caribbean Premier League at the Providence Stadium here today.

During this morning, police ranks conducted a drug eradication operation in the Mahaica Backdam, ECD, during which two fields of cannabis sativa (marijuana) plants under cultivation, comprising about 200 plants ranging in height from 1 foot to 10 feet, along with a quantity of dried marijuana, were found and destroyed.

In his address to South American Presidents of the regional trading bloc MERCOSUR, President David Granger yesterday warned of chaos if established borders are violated.