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The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) today said that the public should be aware that delivery of inbound mail and mail posted from here would have been affected by the severe weather in the US and Europe over the weekend.

Tourism Minister Manniram Prashad this afternoon said the government will be lodging a formal complaint with the Caribbean Airlines head office over the treatment meted out to Guyanese passengers who were stranded in Trinidad and Tobago this week.

Faith’s show-womanship, Basil’s lapel buttons and Carl’s calumny are the latest episodes in what is now a ponderous PNCR drama to pick a winner for the 2011 political Grand Prix. 

DURBAN, South Africa, (Reuters) – India staged a  great comeback from their innings defeat at Centurion to beat  South Africa by 87 runs on the fourth day of the second test at  Kingsmead today.

(Jamaica Gleane r) A senior Ministry of Health official declared yesterday it would be redoubling its efforts to address the local skin-bleaching phenomenon by stepping up its education programmes as well as instituting stricter enforcement of regulations aimed at clamping down on illegal creams and other skin-fading products.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — Yesterday, Justice and Police Minister Martin Misiedjan declared war on heavy crime.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Heart-broken after failing   to regain the Ashes today, Ricky Ponting was forced to   admit the captaincy issue was out of his hands and his powers   with the bat may be on the wane.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – A man traveling with bullet parts  in a suitcase was arrested at Miami’s international airport today after his luggage caused a small explosion on the  tarmac, causing no injuries or damage, authorities said.

Georgetown Mayor and former PNC Prime Minister Hamilton Green has been nominated to be the party’s presidential candidate by PNCR members in Region 10, according to a release reaching this newspaper.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – New Yorkers dug out of the  sixth biggest snowstorm on record to hit their city and  thousands of stranded travelers hoped to finally board  long-delayed flights today after a blizzard buried the  Northeastern United States the day after Christmas.

MOGADISHU, (Reuters) – Somali pirates seized an  Antigua and Barbuda-flagged ship in the Gulf of Aden while it  was heading towards the Suez Canal, maritime sources said today.

The PPP’s political heavyweights have trained their guns unerringly on the management of GUYSUCO for committing the cardinal sin of threatening what is now, singularly, the most powerful mass-based organization in Guyana – GAWU.

The police today said that they are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 7.15 last night  at Queenstown, Essequibo Coast, during which housewife Bibi Zaimoon and her 15 year-old niece were attacked and robbed by five men armed with guns.

At about 8.45  last night boat captain Mohamed Afzane, 32 years, and his crew member were attacked and robbed by three men, two of whom were armed with guns, in the Essequibo River.

The police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 7.05 pm yesterday, at River View, Ruimveldt, Georgetown in which two brothers were robbed of jewellery in a shop.

The body of Paul Peters was pulled from the Laing Avenue canal this morning bearing a gunshot wound and according to reports he was part of a gang which police was hunting on Boxing Day.

DURBAN, South Africa, (Reuters) – South Africa,  chasing 303 to win the second test and the series against India,  slipped to 111 for three when bad light ended play an hour after  tea on day three at Kingsmead today.

By Iman Khan Iman Khan is a recent graduate of the York University BA (Hons) programme in Political Science and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Rhett Cole, 22, an apprentice with the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) died this morning after coming into contact with a high voltage wire at his place of work.

The Acting Director of the Seismic Research Centre of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Dr Joan Latchman, is warning Caribbean countries to be prepared for an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0, according to the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC).