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United States Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch has said that the potential for corruption and need for inclusion are key challenges for Guyana as it navigates its oil wealth.

What seemed like a routine cholecystectomy (gallstone removal surgery) at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) for a 45-year-old East Coast Demerara (ECD) teacher ended tragically and her family is calling for a comprehensive investigation into the post-operative care given to patients at the facility.

Guyana Telephone and Telegraph’s (GTT’s) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Damian Blackburn says thousands of pending landline applications have been reduced to just over 100.

Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha on Saturday commissioned a facility in St Ignatius, Region Nine to process peanuts and cashews.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, (Reuters) – Countries closed this year’s U.N. climate summit yesterday with a hard-fought deal to create a fund to help poor countries being battered by climate disasters, even as many lamented its lack of ambition in tackling the emissions causing them.

The body of  Elick Alexander, a 55-year-old Wismar boat captain who went missing on Saturday  was recovered yesterday morning in the Demerara River at around 10 am. 

The Ministry of Agriculture on Saturday launched its Agriculture Improvement Support Programme and sixteen Region Nine villages have been given aid to the tune of $22m.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is under Russian control, was rocked by shelling yesterday, drawing condemnation from the U.N.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.,  (Reuters) – A gunman opened fire inside a LGBTQ nightspot in Colorado Springs late on Saturday, killing at least five people and injuring 25 others before being stopped by “heroic” clubgoers, police said.

Former City Engineer, Gregory Erskine died after he was involved in an accident on Saturday morning at about 7:15 on the Perseverance Public Road, Mahaicony.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Iran’s clerical rulers have stepped up suppression of persistent anti-government protests in the country’s Kurdish region, deploying troops and killing at least four demonstrators on Sunday, social media posts and rights groups said.

Six persons are now homeless after a fire of unknown origin destroyed their one-flat wooden and concrete house at Hope, according to a press release from the Guyana Fire and Rescue Service.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Canada has sanctioned former Haitian President Michel Martelly and two former prime ministers for financing gangs, Canadian authorities said today, the latest in a series of measures targeting alleged backers of Haitian criminal groups.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Turkish warplanes carried out air strikes on Kurdish militant bases in northern Syria and northern Iraq on Sunday, destroying 89 targets, Turkey’s defence ministry said, in retaliation for a bomb attack in Istanbul that killed six people one week ago.

Fifteen high school graduates will soon begin their seven-month apprenticeship with Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited. 

(Barbados Nation) Barbados’ economic progress relies on more than just the Government’s investment in capital projects, especially during these hard times.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron accused Russia of feeding anti-French propaganda in Africa to serve “predatory” ambitions in troubled African nations, where France has suffered military setbacks and a wider loss of influence over recent years.

A sixty-four-year-old taxi driver is among three persons who were arrested by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) last week after a narcotics bust.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Zimbabwean health workers have left the country in droves over the past year, a senior official at the Health Services Board (HSB) revealed on Sunday.

(Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard yesterday said it has recovered the body of one person after a vessel carrying Cuban migrants capsized off Florida’s Little Torch Key, adding it rescued nine people and was searching for five others.