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Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) inspectors recently seized large quantities of cigarettes and unapproved dial scales.

TIVAOUANE, Senegal,  (Reuters) – Three weeks ago, Ramata Gueye died after giving birth to a son, Mohamed, seven months into her pregnancy.

The Guyana Police Force’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is investigating the circumstances that resulted in a policeman fatally shooting a 30-year-old man at Riverview, Ruimveldt on Tuesday.

Three children under the age of 10 perished in a fire this morning at Barnwell, aback Mocha on the East Bank of Demerara (EBD).

KYIV/SVITLODARSK, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Advancing Russian forces came closer to surrounding Ukrainian troops in the east, briefly seizing positions on the last highway out of a crucial pair of Ukrainian-held cities before being beaten back, a Ukrainian official said today.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain announced a 25% windfall tax on oil and gas producers’ profits today, alongside a 15 billion pound ($18.9 billion) package of support for households struggling to meet soaring energy bills.

In the country’s largest public works project to date, the new Demerara Harbour Bridge is now a step closer to reality following the signing yesterday of a US$260 million contract between the government and China Railway Construction Company Limited (CRCCL).

The Full Court last evening upheld a decision of Justice Gino Persaud on March 9th  2022 that the challenge filed by the Police Service Commission (PSC) and its then chairman Paul Slowe to the suspension of its Commis-sioners by President Irfaan Ali and the non-promotion of ranks can proceed.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips yesterday led a team to Lethem, Tabatinga and other locations in the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo (Region Nine) to assess the flooding of several communities and he was told that over 130 persons are in shelters.

With Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo touring the country and announcing thousands of temporary jobs, the Opposition wants to know how will the jobs be created and where will the funding come from to cover the salaries and other benefits of the temporary employees?

Amidst concerns of low fish catches since the commencement of oil operations offshore Guyana, Acorn International on Monday said it is yet to be decided whether any new marine impact studies will be done for the EIA for the fifth planned offshore project – Uaru.

The capability of the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) was boosted on Tuesday when it received an airport firefighting truck, a water bowser, two water tenders and two ambulances.

The trial of Phillip Suffrien who is accused of the 2017 murders of 89-year-old Constance Fraser and 77-year-old Phyllis Caesar, is set to commence next Wednesday—June 1st—at the High Court in Demerara.

The Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) on Tuesday commissioned the rehabilitated Fort Island Stelling.

A six-month training programme to bolster Guyanese port security and container control concluded on May 25 with 14 graduates from the Guyana Police Force, the Guyana Revenue Authority, the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit, the Maritime Administration Department and the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard. 

KYIV, (Reuters) – Russian forces shelled more than 40 towns in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, Ukraine’s military said, threatening to shut off the last main escape route for civilians trapped in the path of their invasion, now in its fourth month.

Government Chief Whip and Member of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Gail Teixeira says the non-attendance of government members at last Monday’s meeting was not a deliberate act and that their absences were due to national emergencies and members being ill.

(Trinidad Guardian) Calls are being made for the Government to partner with local entrepreneurs as this country looks to partner with Guyana to produce corn, soybean and poultry.

BRASILIA/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and U.S. leader Joe Biden are set to meet next month after Bolsonaro accepted an invitation to the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, two sources told Reuters yesterday.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – Former British Virgin Islands Premier Andrew Fahie pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to launder money and import cocaine to the United States, his attorney said on Wednesday, following his arrest in Miami.