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LIMA,  (Reuters) – Hundreds of protesters in Peru’s capital marched yesterday to demand the scrapping of a new law that describes transgender people, among others, as having a mental illness so they can access health benefits.

The Central Executive Committee of the People’s National Congress Reform decided at its meeting last Wednesday that the Party’s 22nd Biennial Delegates Congress will be held over three days from Friday, 28th June to Sunday, 30th June 2024.

The Medical Council of Guyana (MCG) today said that Dr Anil Solomon has been removed from the register of medical practitioners in Guyana following a finding of professional misconduct and malpractice.

BEIJING/HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – China announced “historic” steps today to stabilise its crisis-hit property sector, with the central bank facilitating 1 trillion yuan ($138 billion) in extra funding and easing mortgage rules, and local governments set to buy “some” apartments.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Firebrand Indian politician Arvind Kejriwal has hit the ground running since his surprise release from detention in the midst of a contentious general election, energizing the opposition as it challenges Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – With new photographic and video evidence, an Indian court battle over the origins of the world famous butter chicken is set to get spicier.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Kenyan lawyers have moved to block the country’s planned deployment of police to Haiti, a court filing showed, days before officers are expected to arrive in the Caribbean nation to tackle spiralling violence there.

(Trinidad Guardian) Self-proclaimed spy, pastor Ian Brown, is again in police custody, after he and four other affiliates of the Strategic Services Agency, including former director Roger Best, were detained by police during a 24-hour exercise between Wednesday afternoon and yesterday.

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday asserted that Permanent Secretaries (PS) can be members of political parties.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday confirmed that Paul Cheong is the new Chief Executive Officer of GuySuCo and he restated  that 5,000 hectares of land at the Skeldon Estate will return to production.

Twenty-one-year-old Keron Boyer, a security officer, appeared yesterday before Chief Magistrate (ag) Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where he was charged with the murder of 16-year-old Benjamin Seaford.

General Secretary of the PPP, Bharrat Jagdeo, yesterday said that the party has not yet discussed the allegations and the probe of rape against party executive and former minister, Nigel Dharamlall, but it will not stall its meetings for appointments to other positions pending the completion of the police investigations.

The New York Police Department (NYPD) team which visited Guyana this week met with civil society leaders and representatives to discuss effective community policing relations.

Eusi Wilson yesterday appeared before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus  at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, where he was sentenced to four years imprisonment and fined $19,800,000 in relation to the possession of a narcotic for the purpose of trafficking to wit 22kgs of cannabis, CANU said yesterday.      

The Amerindian Village Elections got underway on Wednesday, May 15, and according to a release from the Department of Public Information (DPI), new toshaos, deputy toshaos, senior councillors, and councils have been elected across the various administrative regions.

Residents in Crabwood Creek, Upper Corentyne yesterday reported to President Irfaan Ali during a walkabout that their community has seen major developments in recent times in the form of improved drainage, rehabilitated roads and bridges.

The riverine communities of Orealla and Siparuta on Wednesday elected a 26-year-old teacher to be their new toshao.

By Mia Anthony Residents of Lamaha Gardens in Georgetown, particularly in the area of Garnett Street and Bel Air Avenue, have voiced concerns to Mayor Alfred Mentore about the significant increase in traffic disrupting their once serene community.

Three persons are now hospitalized in a serious condition after the lorry they were travelling in on Wednesday lost control and slammed into a concrete bridge and fence before coming to a halt in a trench along the East Bank Berbice (EBB) Public Road.

A woman is now in the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after she was struck by a motor car along the Corentyne Public Road whose driver claimed that he mistakenly pressed the accelerator instead of the brakes.