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The Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) has re-elected co-founder Shaun McGrath to serve a second term as president.

A local footballer was yesterday released on bail on an attempted murder charge after his lawyer told a city court that there was no way he could have committed the crime since he was not in the country at the time.

One of two men found with almost half a kilo of cannabis was yesterday sentenced to serve three years in jail after he admitted that the drug was his.

Simon Primo, who was charged late last year with burglarising a Guyana Power and Light Inc.

A miner was remanded to prison yesterday on a charge that he severely chopped his ex-wife’s current beau, who has been left hospitalised.

TORONTO/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – An eyebrow-raising disclosure in the U.S. indictment of FIFA officials is that a representative of a Caribbean bank made it easy for one allegedly illegal transaction to be done by flying to New York to personally collect a check and then returned to deposit it in an account in the Bahamas.

ATHENS, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Greeks took to the streets yesterday in rival rallies that laid bare the deep divide heading into a referendum that may decide the country’s future in Europe’s single currency.

SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – Chinese stocks tumbled again yesterday, taking the week’s losses to more than 10 percent, as the securities regulator said it was investigating suspected market manipulation and announced a slew of measures aimed at heading off a full-blown crash.

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan today handed over eleven motor pick-up vehicles to the Guyana Police Force at a ceremony on the Tactical Services Unit Square, Police Headquarters.

In Barbados, President David Granger today briefed UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon over Venezuela’s recent maritime decree that aims to appropriate maritime zones of Guyana and other Caricom countries.

The recent discovery in New York of a large amount of cocaine in shrimp from Guyana has left the revenue body here groping for answers on why its enforcement officers failed to detect it at the port of exit.

Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar says her country is in full support of Guyana as it relates to recent decree made by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro over most of Guyana’s exclusive economic zone, GINA reported this afternoon.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will no longer be attending the CARICOM Heads of Government Summit today, the Barbados Nation reported this morning.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Najib Razak slammed a newspaper report that said investigations into troubled state fund 1MDB have traced nearly $700 million of deposits into accounts that allegedly belonged to him, claiming it was a “continuation of political sabotage”.

President David Granger yesterday used his inaugural address to CARICOM Heads to denounce Venezuelan aggression against Guyana, piling pressure on the regional body to strongly condemn this country’s western neighbour whose President, Nicolas Maduro is expected at the summit today.

After an investment of six years and more than US$30M, the Giftland Mall at Turkeyen opened its doors to the public last evening.

Attorneys for interested parties in the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (COI) have been asked to provide written submissions as the commission prepares for its final sittings but lead attorney for the commission Glenn Hanoman says that he is at a loss as to what he is being asked to do.

A woman was shot in her leg yesterday when she tried to fight off a robber, who attacked her onboard a minibus during a stop at Eccles, East Bank Demerara.

US Charge d’Affaires Bryan Hunt last evening said that despite the criticisms from skeptics, expanded cooperation between the US Drug Enforcement Administra-tion (DEA) and local law enforcement agencies will dismantle the drug flow in Guyana and that the two countries are exploring new avenues for collaboration.

A mother and her baby were rescued from a house that went up in flames at Castello Housing Scheme yesterday.