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Thirty-six-year-old former mason Adjuke Josiah was yesterday morning sentenced to 18 years behind bars for the rape of a 15-year-old girl back in 2018.

After striking the first blow, a hire car driver in New Amsterdam was severely beaten by a police constable causing consternation and triggering a probe.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after they were charged with the murder of ex-convict, Akash Pechia, who was found with severe chop injuries about his body in an empty lot at Number 55 Village, Corentyne last week Tuesday.

APNU city councillor Heston Bostwick on Monday denied a claim that he granted permission for the construction of a vending place. 

By Aviso Paul With Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) being one of the most severely flood-affected areas in the country, residents there are now being relocated to safety.

A pensioner drowned in the East La Penitence canal on Monday.

Donnel Trapp now faces a retrial after a jury was unable to arrive at a verdict on the indictment against him for the 2016 murder of Soesdyke Hill Foot farmer/agriculturalist Anthony Breedy.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Americans must stand up to the gun lobby and pressure members of Congress to pass sensible gun laws, U.S.

The Central Islamic Organization of Guyana (CIOG) in collaboration with the Two Brothers Primary and Geneva Nursery School at Canal # 1, West Bank Demerara on Sunday held a medical outreach for the general public.

KYIV/SLOVYANSK, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Russian forces sought to encircle Ukrainian troops in twin eastern cities straddling a river as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that Moscow was seeking to destroy the industrial Donbas region where it has focused its attacks.

Nurses from the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) were last Friday presented with awards for outstanding performance, after graduating with the Bachelor’s Degree in Emergency Nursing.

ATLANTA,  (Reuters) – Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp won his party’s primary vote yesterday over a challenger endorsed by Donald Trump, marking the former U.S.

(Reuters) – A gunman opened fire at an elementary school in South Texas on Tuesday, killing 14 students and one teacher, before the suspect himself died, Governor Greg Abbott told reporters.

The Ministry of Public Works is to sign the contract for the New Demerara River Bridge tomorrow at Providence.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) this afternoon announced the death of a six-month-old infant who succumbed with COVID-19.

Commissioner of Police (ag.)  Clifton Hicken today  expressed his dissatisfaction in relation to the physical altercation between a police rank and a member of the public, which was captured in a video that is circulating on social media, in which the police rank is seen involved in a scuffle and trading punches with a civilian whom he was trying to arrest.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said on Tuesday there was no change to a U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny today lambasted President Vladimir Putin, casting the Kremlin chief as a doomed madman who started a “stupid war” that was butchering the innocent people of both Ukraine and Russia.

(Trinidad Guardian) The T&T Chamber of Industry and Commerce and the Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Association  were both full of praise following the signing of the Guyana – T&T Memorandum of Understanding over the weekend   In a release the TTCIC said, “The recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding by the Governments of Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago is a significant step forward for trade and investment relations between our two countries and CARICOM as a whole.”

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The World Health Organization does not believe the monkeypox outbreak outside of Africa requires mass vaccinations as measures like good hygiene and safe sexual behaviour will help control its spread, a senior official said on Monday.