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Canadian firm Frontera and CGX, partners in the Petroleum Prospecting Licence for the Corentyne block offshore Guyana, yesterday announced integrated results from the Kawa-1 exploration well which showed the presence of light oil and gas condensate.

Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo and Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton were engaged in a heated discussion last night at a Europe Day reception which was hosted by the European Union at Georgetown Club, Camp Street.

With charges yet to be brought over a multi-million dollar school feeding fraud in Region Eight from 2017 to 2018, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday requested that the authorities write to the acting Commissioner of Police for an update on the status of the investigation.

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand yesterday told residents of the island of Wakenaam that the deteriorating Arthur-ville Primary School building will be demolished and a new one built.

A Corentyne woman who was driving  the motorcar which was involved in a fatal collision last Friday was yesterday placed on a total of $520,000 bail after she was charged with causing death by dangerous driving and driving under the influence of alcohol.

A  man was fatally stabbed in the wee hours of Sunday at Bartica while speaking up for a friend who was being threatened.

A 21-year-old Bartica resident is currently battling for his life at a city hospital after he was allegedly critically wounded by a relative during an argument on Mother’s Day.

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan The latest issue of Foreign Affairs has a riveting article by Professor Michael Beckley of Tufts University on the emerging world order.

Six years after being charged with the murder of retired professor Pairaudeau `Perry’ Mars, the trial of Timothy Paul Chance and Andre Benjamin is set to commence next Monday May 16th at the High Court in Demerara.

Twenty-four-year-old Denzil Haynes was yesterday remanded to prison over the murder of a Sophia resident.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) in tandem with the Regional Democratic Council of Mahaica Berbice (Region 5) yesterday provided roofing sheets to residents of Bath Settlement who were affected by Saturday’s freak storm.

Forty four year old Shazie Hoosain, of Greenfield, East Coast Demerara (ECD) died yesterday morning following an accident at Mahaica.

The Guyana Protected Areas Trust (PAT) has signed an agreement for the management of its endowment funds.

KYIV/KHARKIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin exhorted Russians to battle in a defiant Victory Day speech yesterday, but was silent about plans for any escalation in Ukraine, despite Western warnings he might use his Red Square address to order a national mobilisation.

By Frederick Collins Dr. C.Y Thomas, in his column of Sunday 17th April last (https://www.stabroeknews.com/2022/04/17/sunday/guyana

Precision Global Inc. (PGI) yesterday received its certification from the Guyana National Bureau of Standards’ (GNBS) to use the Made in Guyana Certification Mark on its products branded ‘Only Coconuts’.

MANILA, (Reuters) – Ferdinand Marcos Jr clinched a stunning runaway victory in the Philippines’ presidential election yesterday in the first win by a majority since a 1986 revolution that toppled his late father’s two-decade dictatorship.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador yesterday lavished praise on Cuba’s leader, reiterated his wish for the Caribbean island nation to be invited to the Summit of the Americas in June and said Mexico would be hiring over 500 Cuban doctors.

(Reuters) – Bahamian authorities said yesterday they have identified three American tourists who died under mysterious circumstances at a luxury resort on the island of Great Exuma on Friday and are still investigating cause of death.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – The United States today charged a former Haitian senator with conspiring to kill Haitian President Jovenel Moise, the third suspect to be charged by the Department of Justice as the Caribbean nation’s own probe into the murder remains stalled.