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The GAWU Co-operative Credit Union Society Limited says that it has requested that the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc (GuySuCo) recommence deductions of contributions in favour of the Credit Union from workers’ earnings with effect from work-week, 5th – 11th July, 2015.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure has advertised for supervision services for the East Bank Berbice Road project.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Islamic State fighters have launched simultaneous attacks against Syrian government and Kurdish militia forces, moving back onto the offensive after losing ground in recent days to Kurdish-led forces near the capital of their “caliphate.”

THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – The Palestinian Authority made its first submission of evidence of alleged Israeli war crimes to the International Criminal Court yesterday, trying to speed up an ICC inquiry into abuses committed during last year’s Gaza conflict.

Executives of the Guyana Postal and Telecommunication Workers Union (GPTWU) met with Minister within the Ministry of Communities Keith Scott recently in relation to house lots for its 200 members.

President David Granger was on Wednesday presented with a trophy, which GINA says has an enormous amount of significance to former motor cyclist racer, and chief race starter 81- year-old Pat Holder Holder, according to GINA, said he won the trophy when he was just 14 years old and it was one of the most challenging races, in his career as a racer.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – A South African commission into the fatal police shootings of 34 people in 2012 during a wildcat strike at platinum producer Lonmin’s Marikana mine found the company did not do enough to stop the violence, President Jacob Zuma said yesterday.

VANCOUVER, (Reuters) – The global gold mining industry is showing signs of life as merger activity picks up and industry veterans set up new companies and hunt for projects, taking advantage of weak prices to lay the groundwork for a rebound.

BUJUMBURA, (Reuters) – One of Burundi’s vice presidents has fled to Belgium, saying he had been threatened after denouncing President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid for a third term in office, an allegation denied by the government.

(Jamaica Observer) Contractor General Dirk Harrison says that his office remains highly concerned about the high level at which corruption is perceived in the society.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Scientists have identified a key gene used by poppies to make morphine, paving the way for better methods of producing the medically important drug, potentially without the need for cultivating poppy fields.

GEORGETOWN – The U.S Embassy, Georgetown is pleased to announce the restoration of Visa Processing Systems which allow the printing of visas for applicants whose nonimmigrant visa (temporary visit – holiday/tourist/student) applications were approved on interview dates – June 08 to June 23, 2015.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) today said it has noted with dismay the big noise being made by the Granger administration, fuelled by sections of the media about “missing state-owned vehicles amounting to over twenty-eight (28)”.

New York-based Guyanese Ed Ahmad yesterday testified in a Brooklyn Federal Court against NY state senator John Sampson and stated how he loaned money in return for political favours.

The government has launched an investigation into what has been described as “a pattern of serious abuse” where vehicles not affiliated with any government ministry or agency have been accessing fuel from the Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil), and Minister of State Joseph Harmon says private citizens caught in the act would be made to pay for the fuel.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday announced that the government is moving to shake up the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), which he said would have seen PetroCaribe funds being diverted, now forcing the government to find US$15 million to pay farmers for the next shipment of rice.

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan has assured government that steps are being taken to address the spike in crime, and this includes increasing the number of police officers on patrol.

An unidentified suspected bandit was killed on Tuesday night during a shootout outside Butcher’s Pools Bar in Campbellville.

All of the state-owned vehicles at the centre of a police probe involving the former public service minister were returned by the end of last week, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said yesterday before disclosing that 28 other vehicles had been transferred to private hands in a single day and this was just a fraction of those that cannot be accounted for.

The current government has no confidence in the Head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), Winston Brassington says Minister of State Joseph Harmon.