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Seven new COVID cases have been recorded after 172 tests were conducted, the Health ministry has reported.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican Bar Association (JAMBAR) says it cannot support the pre-charge bail provision in the new Bail Act now before a joint select committee of Parliament for review.

The Caribbean Examinations Council announced today that Atishta Seenarine of the Saraswati Vidya Niketan School is the Most Outstanding Overall student at the 2022 Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) and Outam Heeralall of the Anna Regina Secondary School is the Most Outstanding Overall student at the 2022 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination.

Guyana today launched a long-awaited licensing round for offshore oil and gas exploration.

The police today issued a wanted bulletin for Rovaldo Ameir Jaundoo over armed robbery on December 5th 2022 and the discharge of a loaded firearm.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – The European Union and Chile struck a partnership today that will liberalise more trade between the two and give EU companies greater access to raw materials such as lithium and copper that are key to the EU’s green transition.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Arizona U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema said on Friday she had switched her political party affiliation to independent, leaving the Democratic Party just days after it won a U.S.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not hold an annual in-person summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin this year due to his veiled threats to use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war, Bloomberg News reported today, citing sources.

In a surprise appearance yesterday before the elections inquiry, GECOM Chair Claudette Singh SC said she locked herself away in a room at a crucial juncture on March 5th 2020 when an illegal declaration was being made by Clairmont Mingo for the crucial Region Four.

The envoys  of the US, UK, Canada and the European Union (EU) yesterday said that they look forward to more initiatives by the Guyana Government to tackle and eventually extirpate corruption.

A man who raped a seven-year-old girl on two  occasions back in 2020 has been sentenced to serve 17 years in prison.

Government on Monday approved an additional $1 billion for the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) as a part of its $47 billion supplementary budget.

Guyana yesterday celebrated 50 years of diplomatic relations with Cuba and hailed decades of assistance in the medical and educational fields from Havana.

A team of investors from Palnorte, a company that owns and operates palm oil mills in Colombia, met with Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha on Wednesday to discuss the possibility of establishing a local palm oil industry.

Samuel Jose Satrohan Khemraj, a 33-year-old man of Coldingen Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara, was arrested by police and charged with using threatening language against the headmistress of Strathspey Primary School, Andrea Thornton.

As part of its commitment to cushion the cost of electricity, the Parliamentary Committee of Supply on Monday approved the supplementary amount of $6.6 billion for the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) to help offset rising operational costs.

BEIJING/SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – As many Chinese embraced new freedoms yesterday after the country dropped key parts of its tough zero-COVID regime, there was mounting concern that a virus that had largely been kept in check could soon run wild.

Errol Williams, a 51-year-old of Lot 50 Fyrish, Corentyne, Berbice, yesterday appeared before Magistrate Alicia George at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court on the offence of driving a motor vehicle whilst his breath alcohol level exceeded the prescribed limit of .035 BAC.

Parmanand Ramlall, a 36-year-old man of Lot 151 Block 12, Non-Pareil, East Coast Demerara (ECD), appeared at the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court where he was charged with the offence of break and enter and larceny.

(Reuters) – Canada’s TC Energy TRP.TO yesterday said it shut the 622,000 barrel-per-day Keystone pipeline and was responding to an oil release into a creek about 20 miles south of Steele City, Nebraska.