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(Jamaica Observer) Minister with responsibility for information, Daryl Vaz yesterday refused to disclose whether the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Government was aware that energy minister and member of Parliament for West St Thomas James Robertson was being investigated by the police for some time as was disclosed by the Police High Command.

Police are yet to apprehend the man who allegedly stabbed and burnt GPHC nurse, Ursula Houston but a day after the incident he appeared on television denying any involvement in the attack.

The PNCR members who are supporting Winston Murray’s bid to become the party’s presidential candidate are concerned about what they said is the mischaracterization of his condition in the media, and say he is not brain dead.

Another maternal death has gripped the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) this time a twenty-five-year-old mother died yesterday afternoon almost a day after the hospital delivered her still- born baby girl via c-section.

The 60-year-old Mocha woman who was hit down on November 9 as she was crossing at Camp Road and Barrack Street passed away on Tuesday night in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital, a source at the hospital confirmed today.

GALLE, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka were 89 without loss  when rain ended play early on the fourth day of the first test  after being made to bat again by the West Indies having fallen  three runs short of the follow-on total of 381.

Guatemala defeated Guyana by 3 goals to none in the opening match of the NAPA Auto Parts presents El Patron International Soccer Series in Georgia, USA according to Sportspagemagazine.com.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs tonight said that the Guyana Government has approved the re-opening of the Embassy of Argentina in Georgetown.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters Life!) – New York City police  have started scanning people’s eyes when they are charged after  two suspects managed to fool authorities into releasing them in  separate incidents earlier this year.

Members of the Guyana Youth and Student Movement (GYSM), the youth arm of the PNCR, this evening held a vigil outside of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) for party member Winston Murray, who remains on a life support machine at the hospital.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. regulators warned makers  of alcoholic energy drinks often called “blackout in a can”  that their products are unsafe and violate federal laws,  following a public outcry and several state bans.

A Sand Creek woman died some time yesterday afternoon after she was reportedly hit to the head with a hammer.

Daniel Muller, the bystander who was injured on Tuesday by fleeing bandits after they had fatally shot businessman Dennis Ramah in Chateau Margot, says he cannot remember anything from the incident.

(Go-Jamaica) Assistant Commissioner of Police Leslie Green is to head an investigation into “serious” allegations made by a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) activist against Energy Minister James Robertson.

The Guyana’s People Partnership headed up by businessman Peter Ramsaroop is to unveil a $750,000 entrepreneurship award tomorrow.

Two cruise lines have suspended calls at St Kitts after 17 tourists were robbed at gunpoint on Sunday, the UK Daily Telegraph reported today.

(BBC) Haitian President Rene Preval has appealed for calm amid fears that riots aimed at UN peacekeepers over a cholera epidemic could spread to the capital.

A security guard identified as Leroy Benjamin was struck and killed at Conversation Tree last night under circumstances still unknown.

GALLE,  (Reuters) – Mahela Jayawardene completed his  37th test fifty before rain washed out play on the third  afternoon of the first test to leave Sri Lanka on 165 for three  today in reply to West Indies’s 580 for nine declared.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Incorporated today inked a contract with the Wartsila Company for 15.68 more megawatts to the existing 20.7 megawatt plant at Kingston, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.