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CARACAS, (Reuters) – A dispute has been tee’d off between Switzerland’s ambassador to Venezuela and a neighboring elite golf club, after a banner appeared at the diplomat’s residence warning that golf balls injuring or killing anyone inside would violate the Vienna Convention.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge yesterday met with US Assistant Secretary of State, Roberta Jacobson during which the two sides agreed to boost bilateral cooperation and the fight against drugs.

Minister of State Joe Harmon today announced that the new APNU+AFC government was abandoning the controversial Specialty Hospital project which the previous government had been pursuing with an Indian Line of Credit of US$18M.

(Barbados Today) A Guyanese man was sentenced to seven years in prison by Chief Magistrate Pamela Beckles yesterday.

Cabinet has made a decision to bail out the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) with a first tranche of $3.8B, sources say, and will be proceeding with the Commission of Inquiry into the industry as well as a forensic audit of the corporation.

Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday said that he will be reviewing the criteria for firearms licences and could possibly make changes or even create new criteria.

While the PPP’s delay in naming its MPs for the 11th Parliament gels with its continuing claims that the May 11th elections were rigged it is also giving it breathing room to deal with internal divisions on the way ahead and to determine who will lead it – former Presidents Donald Ramotar and Bharrat Jagdeo or someone entirely new.

National footballer and Alpha United member, Manasseh Primo was last week busted in the United States for allegedly attempting to smuggle cocaine into that country in pellets which he had swallowed.

A police sergeant was yesterday arrested at a police station in `C’ Division (East Coast) shortly after he collected a bribe from a businessman to settle a gun-related offence.

The level of the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) last evening was 58.20 Georgetown Datum (GD) and so the Hope Canal project was to have worked through last night draining water into the Atlantic Ocean.

All of the youth prisoners who were granted presidential pardons by President David Granger have been released from prison, according to Prison Director Welton Trotz who said yesterday that they have since been accepted into the USAID’s Skills and Knowledge for Youth Employment (SKYE) Project.

Up to the end of March this year, US$39.4 million earned from Guyana’s efforts in limiting deforestation under its partnership with Norway, remained in the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF) and as the partnership wraps up this month, the new administration seems unsure on how to proceed.

The lead detective in the murder of GTM executive, Bert Whyte told members of the jury yesterday that the accused had admitted to killing Whyte.

Amid reports that he would not be selected again for the top post in the region, former Region Ten Chairman Sharma Solomon said the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) pursued and achieved a number of measures aimed at ensuring equal rights, justice and self-determination, during his three-year tenure.

Minister of Public Health, Dr. George Norton, along with the Deputy Permanent Secretary, Trevor Thomas, and others, travelled to Region Two on June 12 and 13, where they visited health centres/posts in villages along the Pomeroon River and found that key requirements were absent.

The suspect in the recent beating to death of a Goed Intent man is to be charged with manslaughter and will make his first court appearance shortly, according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum.

The police are currently seeking a Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) engineer after an illegal firearm was found in the room he occupies at the entity’s Mahdia location, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said yesterday.

The Anna Catherina Islamic Complex (ACIC) will launch a system of support desks commencing with the first on June 22 to specifically address issues affecting Muslims and the community at large.

The National Com-munication Network (NCN) Radio VOG begins a new series of folkloric programmes on Wednesday evening at 19:30hrs (7:30 p.m.)

A teenager from Agricola was rushed to the Accident and Emergency Unit (A&EU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) late Sunday night after being hit down by a vehicle on Carifesta Avenue, Georgetown.