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Jermaine Bailey, a 29-year-old taxi driver of Lot 35 Joseph Pollydore Street, Lodge, Georgetown, has been charged with the attempted murder of Bimal Veerasammy and Ryan Joseph.

Accountant and financial analyst Floyd Haynes yesterday distanced himself from a Cuffy 250 Committee forum which has as its topic `Resisting the emerging apartheid state’.

As part of efforts to eliminate bottlenecks in the ticketing system currently faced by passengers when travelling between Parika, Supenaam and Bartica, the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) is working ‘hard’ to implement an online ticketing system.

NRG Holdings is inviting the public to attend a meeting to discuss the Vreed-en-Hoop Shore base project in Region Three.

Minister of Housing and Water Collin Croal yesterday led a team from his Ministry and the Regional Administration of Region Three to the West Coast of Demerara where they met with a number of squatters and other residents with the aim of working out land ownership issues.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces said yesterday they had beaten back a Russian attack in the southern region of Kherson, while shelling by Kremlin forces in Kharkiv in Ukraine’s north killed seven people as the near six-month war grinds on with no let up in fighting.

Jeremy Roach, the man who allegedly murdered 20-year-old Owen Young was yesterday remanded to prison.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – After being soundly rejected by Wyoming Republican voters, U.S.

Tenders were opened on Tuesday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the construction of a Prisons Headquarters at Lusignan.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – The U.S. government is concerned about links between Brazil’s largest drug gang and illegal gold mining in the Amazon rainforest, a U.S.

The winners of the World Refugee Day 2022 Migrant Essay Competition received their prizes from the Ministry of Education and the Pan-American Development Foundation (PADF) during a ceremony yesterday at the Ministry’s 26 Brickdam office.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – U.S. authorities have seen a spike in weapons smuggling to Haiti and the Caribbean in recent months, officials said yesterday, promising to boost efforts to combat the trade that is fueling rampant gang violence in Haiti and rising crime in the region.

ACCRA, (Reuters) – Ghana’s central bank yesterday delivered its biggest rate hike ever, a 300 basis point increase to 22% GHCBIR=ECI, at an emergency meeting to address the economy’s rapid deterioration amid crippling inflation.

A fire of unknown origin completely destroyed a one-storey two-bedroom house in Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) Pandemonium broke out in Morvant on Tuesday evening when two gunmen opened fire on a crowded basketball court, leaving two children, aged 9 and 11, seriously injured, with the nine-year-old boy fighting for his life at hospital after being shot in the head.

TAIPEI/BEIJING, (Reuters) – China’s efforts to coerce and undermine Taiwan risk miscalculation and its pressure campaign will most likely continue, Daniel Kritenbrink, the top U.S.

An 82-year-old woman of Region Seven is the latest COVID-19 fatality.

(Reuters) – Federal prosecutors examining the role of former President Donald Trump and allies in events ahead of the Jan.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police yesterday accused President Jair Bolsonaro of discouraging mask use during the pandemic and falsely suggesting that people who got vaccinated against COVID-19 ran the risk of contracting AIDS.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Rap musician A$AP Rocky pleaded not guilty yesterday to two felony charges of assault with a firearm connected to a November shooting of a former friend in Hollywood.