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Guyanese/Canadian professor and biomaterials expert Dr. Suresh Narine has been awarded a CDN $3 million Senior Industrial Research Chair in Biomaterials at Trent University , from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada along with Elevance Renewable Sciences Incorporated and the Grain Farmers of Ontario.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc today said it is “extremely disturbed” by reports from retailers, who are alleging that they are being forced to pay an increase for bagged sugar by a wholesaler.

New Chairman of the Medical Council of Guyana, Dr Sheik Amir says that a full probe will have to be conducted into sex felon Dr Vishwamintra Persaud as the council was unaware of his US conviction.

Businessman and host of the Eye on the Issues programme Yesu Persaud has apologised to Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud over a statement made on the November 7 programme by businessman Peter Ramsaroop.

By Wilberne Persaud Financial Gleaner Columnist (Jamaica Gleaner) In Georgetown, Guyana, I take a moment to contemplate what I have seen and experienced these last few days.

The New York Post says a Trinidadian bank worker has filed a discrimination lawsuit against JP Morgan Chase on Liberty Avenue, Queens NY following a series of incidents including an alleged taunt by her Guyanese superior that Trinis are lazy compared to Guyanese “You come to the land of opportunity and then you have to face discrimination,” Trinidad native Shivana Persad, 26, told The Post.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday denied that journalist Fazeer Mohammed was fired from State-owned Caribbean New Media Group (CNMG).

(Barbados Nation) The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has moved a step closer to finding a full-time team manager.

PNCR-1G MP Winston Murray was last night in the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) after suffering a serious fall.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The death toll in  Haiti’s cholera epidemic climbed today, reaching 800,  according to a U.S.

Police today issued a wanted bulletin for Mark Gobin who is wanted in connection with murder committed on Kawall Outar on November 6 at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara.

A convicted prisoner was shot twice by police officers who opened fire at him as he jumped from a prison van outside the Camp Street prison around 3 this afternoon in a hair-raising episode that also resulted in a civilian being wounded.

Dr. Vishwamintra Persaud, the man credited for delivering a ‘miracle’ baby at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), is a convicted child sex felon who had his doctor’s licence revoked in New York in 2007.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Oscar-winning Italian film  producer Dino De Laurentiis, who brought 500 films to the big  screen including “La Strada,” “Serpico,” and “Three Days of the  Condor,” has died at age 91, his family said today.

-Kamla among those monitored (Trinidad Express) An early-morning police raid, ordered by Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs, on a secret snooping agency within the National Security Ministry has brought to light an extensive list, including Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and private citizens, whose phone calls, text messages and e-mails have been monitored over five years.

Following the protest by parents on Tuesday at the Bagotville Primary School, there have been improvements however the head-teacher has been demoted.

A driver and two attendants of the Georgetown Public Hospital were injured after the ambulance they were in crashed in the vicinity of the University of Guyana Road on the East Coast this morning.

A new entity, Transparency Institute Guyana Inc. has been incorporated under the Companies Act with the aim of promoting transparency and eradicating corruption.

(Jamaica Information Service) London, United Kingdom: Reggae legend Gregory Isaacs once again took superstar billing as hundreds of well-wishers, rather than mourners, celebrated his life in unique style in London yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) St Lucia’s Defence Force was called into action yesterday when hundreds of citizens burst through gates and bombarded Barbadian fishing vessels laden with relief supplies for victims of Hurricane Thomas.