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Twelve new COVID-19 cases were recorded yesterday. Those cases came after 220 COVID tests were conducted.

BUFFALO, N.Y.,  (Reuters) – The 18-year-old man accused of the deadly mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, visited the city in March and the day before the rampage, police said on Monday, as public figures decried the suspect’s racist ideology and the spread of white supremacy.

A sixty-two-year-old truck driver was yesterday airlifted to the Georgetown Public Hospital from Region 8 after being involved in an accident.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday announced a series of steps to revise its policy toward Cuba, including easing some Trump-era restrictions on family remittances and travel to the island and sharply increasing the processing of U.S.

To counter the rise in the cost of living, President Irfaan Ali today announced a one-off grant of $25,000 for all households in riverain and hinterland areas.

A small fire at the Police CID Crime Lab/Narcotics Lab at Eve Leary was extinguished this morning, the police say.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s new prime minister said today the crisis-hit nation was down to its last day of petrol, as the country’s power minister told citizens not to join the lengthy fuel queues that have galvanised weeks of anti-government protests.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Sweden’s government has formally decided to apply for NATO membership, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said today, setting it on the road toward ending military non-alignment that lasted throughout the Cold War.

After seeking to remove its chairman Trevor Benn, the management committee of the public service credit union itself came under pressure on Saturday when the required number of members moved for the removal of the entire body and the announcement of new elections within 14 days.

The police yesterday took possession of two major stations at Parika in Region Three and Anna Regina in Region Two and two outposts at the Onderneeming Sand Pit and Lima Sands, both on the Essequibo Coast.

Western envoys and the UN on Saturday held a reception for journalists here to mark World Press Freedom Day and lauded their work.

The Ministry of Education (MoE) on Friday advised all untrained teachers in the system to immediately enroll at the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE).

United States-based Guyanese singer and former Hadfield Street, Lodge resident Curt Johnson was gunned down while leaving his brother’s birthday celebrations in New Jersey in the wee hours of yesterday, his relatives say.

Ninety-nine percent of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) employees who will be transferred to the new customer service business, Arrowhead Communications Incorporated by next month are contracted workers who will be paid all their benefits, GPTWU President, Harold Shepherd said.

Forty-five new cases of COVID-19 were reported yesterday. The Ministry of Health’s daily dashboard said that two persons are in the ICU.

Months after it hurriedly shut down new generators at its  Garden of Eden generating facility, Guyana Power and Light (GPL) engineers have managed to pinpoint the possible cause having analyzed data collected and are now working on a solution.

BUFFALO, N.Y.,  (Reuters) – A white teenager who killed 10 people in a racist attack at a western New York grocery store in a Black neighbourhood had been taken into custody last year and given a mental health evaluation after making a threat at his high school, authorities said.

RUSKA LOZOVA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russia pummelled positions in the east of Ukraine yesterday, its defence ministry said, as it sought to encircle Ukrainian forces in the battle for Donbas and fend off a counteroffensive around the strategic Russian-controlled city of Izium.

Responding to calls by local Attorney-at-Law Elizabeth Deane-Hughes to postpone the planned public consultation for the gas-to-power project until the expiry of the mandatory 60 days comments/objections period, President of ExxonMobil Guyana, Alistair Routledge has said that the sessions are intended to be complementary to the review process and should proceed.

(Trinidad Guardian) An aggressive and hard-line approach has been taken to root out rogue officers within the prison system.