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The Department of Public Affairs in the Office of the Prime Minister says that it will be moving to consolidate the recommendations from the two day press freedom symposium into actionable outcomes through further engagement of the “key actors across the local spectrum”.

Investigators have wrapped up their probe into the accident which claimed the life of motorcyclist Ronaldo Saul Drepaul and the case file will be sent for legal advice.

A fight between two men last evening in Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, has left one dead and the  other hospitalised. 

The police yesterday said that a father who badly beat his five-year-old son because he had eaten some Chinese food is to be prosecuted.

Attorney-at-law Bernard Da Silva, who represented Devanand Singh, the businessman who assaulted and abused his daughter during last month is no longer a defence counsel in the case.

The Police in Regional Division #10 are investigating the alleged damaging of a 212 Toyota Motorcar (HB 4084) by an unknown person.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said diplomatic efforts were underway to save the remaining fighters holed up inside the Azovstal steelworks in the city of Mariupol, as more civilians were evacuated from the bombed-out plant.

After conducting 303 COVID-19 tests, the Ministry of Health yesterday said that six cases of the novel Coronavirus were recorded.

BELFAST, (Reuters) – Sinn Fein, the former political wing of the IRA, looked set to claim top spot in elections in British-controlled Northern Ireland for the first time yesterday, a historic shift that could bring the once-remote prospect of a united Ireland closer.

(Santa Barbara News-Press) Santa Barbara County chambers of commerce are warning of potential economic ramifications after the Board of Supervisors denied an ExxonMobil trucking plan in March. 

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on May 3rd between Excalibur Minerals LLC and Ithaca Energy Partners Inc (IEP), a Guyanese company for the setting up of a barium compounds manufacturing facility to aid the oil and gas industry.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon surged to record levels for the month of April, nearly doubling the area of forest removed in that month last year — the previous April record — preliminary government data showed on Friday, alarming environmental campaigners.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a state of emergency yesterday following a day of anti government strikes and protests over a worsening economic crisis.

Armed bandits on Thursday night attacked and robbed a 24-year-old Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldier at his South Amelia’s Ward, Linden home.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – At least 100 vehicles were destroyed on highways across northern Colombia in isolated attacks by the Clan del Golfo criminal gang, which announced an “armed strike” to protest the extradition of former leader Dairo Antonio Usuga, known as Otoniel, to the United States, the government said on Friday.

DAKAR,  (Reuters) – Anglo French oil company Perenco has declared force majeure for 150 days following a leak at its Cap Lopez oil terminal in Gabon last week, a company spokesperson said yesterday.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – A deadly explosion hit a well-known hotel in downtown Havana today, tearing a gash several floors high in the side of the building, killing at least 22 people and injuring upwards of 70, witnesses and state media said.

President Irfaan Ali and a high-level cabinet team held a brief meeting with the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro (left) at State House this morning.

A Corentyne businessman died after a car struck him along the Nigg Public Road this morning.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party lost control of traditional strongholds in London and suffered setbacks elsewhere in local elections, with voters punishing his government over a series of scandals.