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Bygeval Multilateral was today declared the winner of the Inter-American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture (IICA) Hydroponics Competition for secondary schools.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID/Guyana) through its Governance Enhancement Project (GEP) yesterday awarded grants in the amount of US$58,600 to three Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), to implement domestic violence issue-based activities in Regions 4, 6 and 8. 

(Jamaica Gleaner) Dr Paul Lewis, the internationally renowned Jamaica-born American televangelist, has been slapped with fresh charges of perverting the course of justice in the ongoing carnal abuse case against him.

The Buxton health centre has been renovated to the tune of $1.5M and a new doctor stationed there.

(Barbados Nation) More than 10 000 people are expected to pack Kensington Oval for next week’s  state funeral of departed Prime Minister David Thompson.

The Caricom Secretariat will open a Book of Condolence for Prime Minister of Barbados, David Thompson on Monday, November 1st at the Caricom Secretariat, Turkeyen.

President Bharrat Jagdeo will meet with the retrenched Barama Company Limited workers on Monday in an attempt to offer them transitional assistance.

The first meeting of the National Task Force for the prevention of Sexual Violence was held today in the boardroom of the Ministry of Labour, Upper Brickdam, Georgetown.

The People’s National Congress Reform today mounted a protest outside the office of Human Services Minister Priya Manickchand her ministry’s handling of the Neesa Gopaul case.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Former Argentine President  Nestor Kirchner, the current president’s husband and a  contender to succeed her in next year’s election, died from a  heart attack today.

The Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal today ruled in favour of the Antigua government in an election petition case.

The Leguan Post Office is now in full operation after extensive renovations were done as a result of bats and an infestation of termites.

(Trinidad Express) Guyanese national Kamaldeo Singh, charged with beating his two-year-old stepson, Etean George-Smith, to death, appeared before a Port of Spain magistrate yesterday.

Spurned lover attacks woman at car dealership (Trinidad Express) Sabrina Lalla-Mitchell’s tormentor turned up at her workplace and stabbed her to death yesterday afternoon —a killing witnessed by her two children.

A new website, Get24kt.com, aims to buy gold directly from mines including Guyana’s thereby minimizing financial risk and maximizing returns.

The man who died in an accident on the New Hope Public Road, East Bank Demerara has been identified.

The WPA this afternoon said that now that Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy has finally come around to accepting responsibility for the failure of the state’s medical services to provide a sufficiently high standard of patient care, the “political overlords of the Ministry of Health should do the decent thing and resign their portfolios.”

(BBC) Credit unions, a growing financial powerhouse in the Caribbean, are preparing themselves for tighter oversight.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – A tsunami that pounded remote  islands in western Indonesia following an earthquake off the  coast of Sumatra killed more than 100 people, officials said today, and hundreds more were missing.

A man and a woman died after a man went berserk on Howes Street, Charlestown at around 10 am and chopped them.