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The National Milling Company (NAMILCO) says that it has not increased the prices of any of its products.

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – The Dutch central bank (DNB) today apologized for its role in the 19th century slave trade and said it would fund projects to raise awareness of slavery and to mitigate the effects it still has on people.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India today imposed a ban on single-use plastics on items ranging from straws to cigarette packets to combat worsening pollution in country whose streets are strewn with waste.

(Trinidad Express) PC Clarence Gilkes was killed by a police bullet.

(Trinidad Guardian) After spending almost 17 years in prison and facing three trials, five men convicted of kidnapping a businesswoman and allegedly burying her alive have been set free.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday pleaded with Guyana’s citizenry to trust his government to give them a gas-to-shore project that will bring not only lower power costs but put savings into their pockets while expanding development and prosperity for the nation.

The US last evening committed to donating to Guyana all the Pfizer vaccines it needs in the fight against the  COVID-19 pandemic which has claimed the lives of 1254 persons here.

An East Canje, Berbice woman was strangled and found wrapped in a bag along the Corentyne Highway in Number 1 Village yesterday and a soldier is the main suspect and was detained at his base in Georgetown.

Leader of the Opposition Aubrey Norton yesterday called for the police officer who fatally shot 23-year-old Quindon Bacchus to be charged with murder.

An 86-year-old Mon Repos woman was yesterday afternoon discovered dead in her apartment with multiple stab wounds about her body and police have launched an investigation.

Thirty-eight-year-old former taxi-driver Thurston Semple, has been sentenced to 11 years behind bars for brutally raping and beating a sex worker back in February of last year.

The Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) yesterday held a hearing on the appeal of EPA decisions not to have impact surveys for ExxonMobil’s planned exploration in the offshore Canje and Kaieteur blocks.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s government and indigenous groups’ leaders yesterday reached an agreement to end more than two weeks of protests against the social and economic policies of President Guillermo Lasso which left at least eight dead, indigenous leaders said.

Retired Assistant Com-missioner of Police, Paul Slowe has applied to High Court Judge, Justice Gino Persaud for an injunction to halt any promotion of members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) by the new Police Service Commission (PSC).

KYIV,  (Reuters) – A Russian missile strike in Ukraine’s southern port of Odesa early today killed at least 10 people, a regional official said, a day after Ukraine drove Russian forces from the strategic Black Sea outpost of Snake Island.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peruvian firefighters were fighting to contain a forest fire near the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu on Thursday, as the blaze threatened to close in on the ancient city high in the Andean mountains.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that as of June 29th, 2022, one more person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday imposed limits on the federal government’s authority to issue sweeping regulations to reduce carbon emissions from power plants in a ruling that undermines President Joe Biden’s plans to tackle climate change and could constrain various agencies on other issues.

Nadia Mohamed, wife of businessman Azzrudin Mohamed, was yesterday released on $100,000 bail following a fatal accident involving the vehicle she was driving and a motorcycle.

WASHINGTON/CARACAS,  (Reuters) – A U.S. delegation led by President Joe Biden’s chief hostage negotiator ended a visit to Venezuela yesterday after failing to secure the release of any of the Americans detained there, U.S.