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Residents of Experiment Village, West Coast Berbice are now counting their losses after a storm last night damaged several roofs and sheds in the area. 

-other major infrastructure also under consideration The feasibility of a road link between Georgetown and the Brazilian city of Boa Vista is under consideration following a brief trip here yesterday by President  Jair Bolsonaro and other major initiatives like a deepwater harbour and a rail link were also floated.

A 29-year-old mechanic who is accused of killing Mainstay resident, Noel Anthony Fredericks during last month was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with murder.

Questioning the legality of a motion of no confidence against his leadership as chairman of the Guyana Public Service Co-operative Credit Union, Trevor Benn yesterday told Stabroek News that he will not be stepping down from the post.

North West District farmer Edward Simon has been sentenced to just over another three years in prison over the 2015 fatal stabbing of 25-year-old miner Lionel Williams with whom he had been drinking at Tin Cup Backdam.

A Corentyne businessman died  while returning home from masjid yesterday morning after he was involved in a collision along the Nigg Public Road, in East Berbice, Corentyne, with a motorcar which was being driven by an intoxicated female who is currently in police custody.

Former businessman Junior France has been sentenced to spend just about the next four years in prison for the shooting death of a 17-year-old miner whom he said he thought was an intruder.

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.