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(Barbados Nation) Police have identified the bodies of the four people found in a home at Breezy Hill, St Philip this morning.

  DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) – Tanzania said today it had signed an agreement with a Turkish firm, Yapi Merkezi, to build a $900 million modern railway line as part of the country’s efforts to upgrade transportation links and boost trade with its neighbours.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was likely killed by unintentional gunfire from Israeli positions, but independent investigators could not reach a definitive conclusion about the origin of the bullet that struck her, the U.S.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – A Turkish court rejected today a request to extradite a man wanted by Haiti over his alleged involvement in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise.

The Police Complaints Authority (PCA) yesterday said that it has recommended to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) that three cops be charged in relation to the fatal shooting of Quindon Bacchus on June 10.

A third suspect in the murder of octogenarian Agnes Dillon of  Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara has confessed to committing the crime.

The  Promotions List for Senior Officers of the Guyana Police Force was released yesterday with Senior Superintendent Calvin Brutus, who is currently performing the functions of Deputy Commissioner ‘Administration’, heading the list of those promoted to Assistant Commissioners.

Days after being given reasons for the refusal of its Local Content certificate, Chief Executive Officer of Ramps Logistics Guyana, Shaun Rampersad said they are working to submit supplementary documents this week.

A fatal accident yesterday afternoon at Silver Hill, Soesdyke-Linden Highway has claimed the life of a pedestrian.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips is to lead a high-level government outreach today to the East Coast Demerara villages of Buxton/Friendship.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that a fully vaccinated Region Two man, 20, has succumbed to COVID-19.

A twenty-six-year-old minibus conductor yesterday morning succumbed to injuries sustained in an accident which occurred on Friday night.

A brawl at the Route 42 Bus Park in the vicinity of the Stabroek Market has left a man hospitalised with stab wounds and another with a gunshot wound.

YIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine’s forces have withdrawn from the bombed-out city of Lysychansk, prompting Russia to claim full control of the eastern Luhansk region, a key Kremlin war goal, but President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed to regain the lost territory.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport Corporation has invited bids for the construction of a new administrative office building estimated to cost $906m.

(Reuters) – The congressional panel investigating last year’s attack on the U.S.

Some 100 residents of Sophia, Georgetown on Saturday benefitted from the government’s $250, 000 business grant, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

ALMATY,  (Reuters) – Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said yesterday there were casualties among civilians and law enforcement officers after rare protests in the Central Asian country, and an exiled opposition politician said at least five people had been killed.

A security guard was on June 29th remanded to prison on a charge of attempted murder.

While upholding the right of citizens to agitate in the furtherance and defence of their interests, the Electoral Reform Group (ERG) says that it is appalled at the acts of rioting and looting that occurred on June 28 in connection with the protests related to the Quindon Bacchus killing.