World Bank approves US$22m for health resilience here
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The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved a new US$ 22-million Guyana One Health Project to strengthen health resilience in Guyana as well as focus on empowering the country to prevent, prepare for, and respond to health emergencies, while adopting a One Health approach, which integrates human, animal, and environmental health systems, a World Bank release announced yesterday.  

GPHC commissions $210m boiler system
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The Georgetown Public Hospital Cor-poration (GPHC) yesterday commissioned its new $210 million Boiler System/Steam Plant, a critical investment aimed at improving hospital operations, energy efficiency, and patient care.

NA labourer gets 12 years for killing man
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Forty-two-year-old Dexroy Ogleton yesterday appeared before Justice Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Berbice Assizes where he was sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment for the death of Jermaine Elias, called ‘Deportee’.

Action in the Camptown and Order & Discipline encounter.

Camptown schools Order & Discipline 4-0
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GFA Pre-Season Championship Camptown thrashed Order and Discipline by a 4-0 scoreline when the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Pre-Season League continued last evening at the Farnum ground, Subryanville.

The two sides meeting (G-Invest photo)

Guyana, Northern Brazil in renewed bid to deepen economic ties
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-Persaud highlights need for review of Partial Scope Agreement Guyana and the state of Roraima in northern Brazil this week renewed efforts to deepen economic ties while positioning their respective private sectors as the drivers of investment and business collaboration.

FILE PHOTO: Vadim Moshkovich attends a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Russia, June 1, 2017. REUTERS/Artyom Korotayev/TASS/Host Photo Agency/Pool/File Photo

Russia remands billionaire Moshkovich in custody for two months

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian farming billionaire Vadim Moshkovich was remanded in custody for two months by a Moscow court on Thursday after his detention on suspicion of large-scale fraud, the highest-profile arrest in years of a major businessman in Russia.