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World AIDS Day is both a day of remembrance and a day of celebration. 

(BBC) Suriname and Brazil have signed an agreement aimed at regulating migration between the two countries.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – The Decision Review System (DRS)   has been extended to bilateral one-day internationals to help   teams get used to it in time for next year’s World Cup, the   International Cricket Council (ICC) said today.

President Bharrat Jagdeo is scheduled to meet Chinese living in Guyana on Friday, 3rd December to discuss matters of “mutual interest” A notice from the Chinese Association of Guyana in today’s Stabroek News invited all Chinese living or working in Guyana to a meeting at the International Convention Centre, Liliendaal at 3 pm.

A Russian national is dead after a motorcycle accident on the Farm Public Road, EDB around six this evening.

The prisoner who drank a quantity of suspected formalin was today awaiting treatment under guard in the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Child sex felon Dr Vishwamintra Persaud has been fired from his position at the Georgetown Hospital, Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy said today in a press release.

A 29-year-old Diamond Housing Scheme man was brutally stabbed to death at Ruimzeight, West Coast Demerara by a teenager during an early morning row today.

Guyana is donating $20M each to St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines to help in infrastructure restoration in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Thomas which struck last month.

QUITO, (Reuters) – An Ecuadorean government official  has invited the founder of the WikiLeaks whistleblower website  to live and lecture in the country, days after the site caused  an international uproar by releasing additional sensitive U.S. 

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. government said it  would tighten security after WikiLeaks released more than  250,000 U.S.

Wikileaks.org which has created an uproar in the US over the release of insider accounts of the war in Afghanistan and now the release of a vast  amount of  US diplomatic cables says 380 of them pertain to Guyana.

(Jamaica Observer) MANDEVILLE, Manchester — The West Indies Union (WIU) Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is no more.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s blazing run to   the final of the Asian Games this month has given them a taste   of success and now they are gunning for the cricket big time.

Statement by the OAS-CARICOM Joint Electoral Observation Mission on the Presidential and Legislative Elections of 28 November 2010 Introduction Present in Haiti since August 2010, the OAS-CARICOM Joint Election Observation Mission was able to monitor the administrative, technical and logistical preparations for both the postponed legislative elections and the presidential elections.

Police ranks today stopped and searched a motor car at Uitvlugt, WCD, during which 21 kilograms 488 grams of cocaine were found.

The Ministry of Public of Public Works and Communication – Works Services Group/Sea Defence Division today advised the public to take all necessary precautions during the spring tide period of December 2, 2010 –December 9, 2010.

Winston Murray’s funeral

I am a Guyanese living in the US for 35 years now and am trying to locate Selene Joseph, formerly of Demerara Tobacco Co.

By Colin Rickards Colin Rickards is an author, journalist, broadcaster and Caribbeanist with long connections to Guyana and its authors.