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QUITO,  (Reuters) – Thousands of indigenous demonstrators marched through Ecuador’s capital yesterday urging President Guillermo Lasso to agree to demands for economic and social support, the latest in a series of protests that have injured dozens and disrupted the economy.

The police yesterday said that a Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara man was nabbed on Sunday with an unlicensed gun and raw gold at the Supenaam stelling in Essequibo.

The Guyana Police Force’s Office of Professional Responsibility says it is currently investigating an incident following a social media post where ranks of the Police Force’s Regional Division  4 ‘C’ were shown to have followed the Leader of the Opposition, Aubrey Norton on June 13th, 2022 after a visit he made at Golden Grove Market Street, East Coast Demerara.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The boat used by killed British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira to travel Brazil’s Amazon was found last evening, authorities said in a press statement.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Around 70,000 Belgian workers marched through Brussels today demanding government action to tackle sharply rising living costs, as one-day strikes at Brussels Airport and on local transport networks nationwide brought public travel to a near-halt.

 (Reuters) – Oscar-winning Canadian screenwriter and director Paul Haggis is under house arrest in southern Italy on charges of sexual assault and aggravated personal injury, accusations that Haggis denies, his lawyers said today.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has tested positive for COVID 19.

A VICE News programme yesterday maintained that there were serious grounds for concern about inducements offered by Chinese companies here and Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo vowed to sue his tenant and businessman Su Zhirong for statements in the broadcast suggesting that he (Jagdeo) took bribes.

Minister in the Ministry of Public Works, Deodat Indar yesterday denied instigating the visit by police to Stabroek News in relation to documents in the possession of a reporter but the newspaper is standing by its report on the matter.

Shadow Attorney General, Roysdale Forde SC yesterday called for the resignation of Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo and an independent probe of allegations in a VICE News programme in which businessman Su Zhirong said that Jagdeo took bribes.

The DCSN Manufacturing Inc pre-stressed concrete plant at Little Diamond was officially commissioned yesterday.

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported two more COVID-19 deaths. This takes the total number of deaths from the pandemic to 1,247.

Twenty persons in key sectors were trained last week to improve the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) response to emergencies during disasters.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron lost control of the National Assembly in legislative elections yesterday, a major setback that could throw the country into political paralysis unless he is able to negotiate alliances with other parties.

A Guyanese man who is wanted by the US government over drug trafficking has been arrested in Kenya.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy predicted Russia will escalate its attacks this week as European Union leaders consider whether to back Kyiv’s bid to join the bloc and Moscow presses its campaign to win control of the country’s east.

Residents of Second Street, Johanna North, Black Bush Polder are pleading with President Irfaan Ali to look into having works carried out on their street which is currently in a deplorable state.

BOGOTA/BUCARAMANGA,  (Reuters) – Leftist Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement who has vowed profound social and economic change, won Colombia’s presidency yesterday, the first progressive to do so in the country’s history.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House panel investigating the January 2021 attack on the U.S.

Finding that Diamond Quarry had been given an “unequivocal assurance” from the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) that its quarry licence application over 848 acres had been favourably considered, and Notice of the Intention to Grant would be published, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in a unanimous judgment, on Wednesday ruled that licence over what was deemed disputed lands, belongs to Diamond Quarry Inc.