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The Working People’s Alliance today said that the report of the disappearance of three young Guyanese boxers at JFK airport in the USA on the way back from the Commonwealth Games in India, underscores the depth of the crisis affecting the lives of disadvantaged young Guyanese in the country of their birth.

A 33-year-old man was rushed this afternoon to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was stabbed five times about the body.

President Bharrat Jagdeo says that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will be provided with all the resources it needs to conduct next year’s general elections.

The Guyana Defence Force this afternoon said it has recovered a weapon which was reported missing during training involving its troops.

Nixon Alexander Maza, also known as Milton Alexander Maza has been charged with the murder of Guyana-trained lawyer Richard Stuart and his wife Maria.

The National Toshaos Council (NTC) meeting will be held from October 25 to 29, 2010 at the Guyana International Conference Centre, Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara.

Heavy fog early this morning blanketed Georgetown and other parts along the coast severely reducing visibility.

A New York attorney and his former assistant have been sentenced to federal jail time and were ordered to pay restitution for defrauding more than 230 undocumented immigrants – including Guyanese – who came to them for help to become legal immigrants.

(Trinidad Express) Domestic abuse claimed the life of a two-year-old boy yesterday even as his mother was at the hospital seeking treatment for her own injuries.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Leeward Islands tore up the formbooks as they upset the Windward Islands by four runs yesterday, to snatch a place in the final of the WICB One-Day Championship.

The Working People’s Alliance this evening called on “all patriotic Guyanese, opposition political parties and civil society organizations and individuals to join forces to ensure that GECOM carries out its mandate to the people without interference from the government.”

Guyana captain Ramnaresh Sarwan has pinpointed inconsistency among reasons for the national team crashing out of another West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) 50-over tournament in the preliminary rounds and he also lamented the dropping of experienced players “The result was very disappointing this year especially after we finished as runner-up last year.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) says 10 of its 23 sewerage stations are currently out of operation due to the pumps being clogged, however; they will be operational by month end.

Over 350 persons are being treated daily at the main medical centre of the USS Iwo Jima – Continuing Promise 2010 mission set up at Rose Hall, Corentyne while 15 surgeries have been completed.

The reputed husband of Nandranie Narine whose bloodied body was found in her unsecured Columbia, Essequibo Coast home was on Wednesday charged with her murder.

Walter Stapleton, the 81-year-old who died in San Juan, Puerto Rico after falling ill on a Delta Airways flight on Tuesday had been on his way to New York for a check-up, relatives say.

(DOW JONES NEWSWIRES)  Toyota Motor Corp. (TM, 7203.TO) announced three separate recalls of a combined 1.5 million vehicles, including 740,000 in the U.S.,

West Indies cricket coach Ottis Gibson says that leaving out Ramnaresh Sarwan from the team for the upcoming series with Sri Lanka was a tough decision.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation this afternoon said that it  continues to be affected by strike action by harvesters attached to the estates of Rose Hall and LBI.

The Guyana Revenue Authority is urging members of the public, particularly non-residents who are interested in exporting goods as part of their luggage that a VAT-refund must be supported by documentary evidence.