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Based on legal advice, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday announced that no criminal charges will be laid against the cops accused of torturing teenager Jaheim Peters while in custody at the Vigilance Police Station.

While it has not commenced as yet, Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn yesterday confirmed that the allegations of corruption and money laundering involving Chinese nationals operating here made in two VICE News reports will be investigated.

The Government of Guyana has made a second withdrawal of some US$200 million from the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) in accordance with the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Act 2021.

Toshaos were yesterday urged to develop plans that they believe would solve the issues their communities currently face.

Colin Venture, 31, is now awaiting sentencing after being unanimously convicted by a jury on all of the three counts against him for raping a 13-year-old girl on three separate occasions over a one-month period back in 2020.

Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) retired Justice Claudette Singh on Tuesday shot down yet another motion by the Opposition-nominated Commissioners to have the March 2020 polls reviewed internally.

More frequent contacts are necessary between the police forces of Guyana and France to combat crime more effectively, according to  Chargé d’Affaires of the French Embassy to Guyana and Suriname, José Gomez.

Parika and Supenaam speedboat operators are busy working to ensure that their craft are regularly maintained and are river worthy.

Leader of the Opposition Aubrey Norton has renewed his call for President Irfaan Ali to fire Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo and bring in a team of “independent and credible” investigators to probe the claims of corruption contained in VICE News broadcasts.

A Brazilian and a Colombian are to spend four years and six months in jail  over the trafficking of cocaine and cannabis.

A man was yesterday released on $200,000 bail after he was charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

A 79-year-old man has been reported as the country’s latest COVID-19 fatality.

ISTANBUL/UNITED NATIONS, New York,  (Reuters) – Ukraine, the United Nations and Turkey hailed progress at talks in Istanbul that aim to resume Black Sea grain exports blocked by Russia and ease the risk of starvation faced by millions, but an end to the war remained far off as heavy shelling continued.

A North Ruimveldt man was yesterday remanded after he was charged with the illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.

A mason on Tuesday pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny and has been sentenced to two years behind bars.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former finance minister Rishi Sunak won the biggest backing from Conservative lawmakers yesterday in the first vote to choose who will succeed Boris Johnson as party leader and British prime minister, while two more rivals were eliminated.

A fire, ignited by a  candle, damaged the home of two persons at Lovely Lass, West Coast Berbice on Monday.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The shooting over the weekend of an official in Brazil’s leftist Workers’ Party (PT) by a supporter of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro has inflamed fears of more political violence ahead of a heated election in October.

A man was yesterday taken before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where he was remanded on charges of possession of a firearm and ammunition.

(Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve is seen ramping up its battle with 40-year high inflation with a supersized 100 basis points rate hike this month after a grim inflation report showed price pressures accelerating.