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Meningitis has claimed the life of a child living in Kato, Region Eight and has left his brother hospitalized in a serious condition, Minister in the Ministry of Health Dr.

A Kaneville, East Bank Demerara (EBD) resident was on Friday afternoon crushed to death by a motor lorry while she was walking along the Haags Bosch Access Road at Eccles, EBD.

Georgetown residents have been granted a two-week extension on the amnesty on the interest accrued on unpaid property rates.

With the December 31, deadline for the end of vending at the so-called Parliament View Mall approaching, the Markets and Public Health Committee of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has identified three possible sites to relocate the vendors.

Prime Minister of Barbados Freundel Stuart was awarded the Order of Roraima as a reward for standing in support of Guyana in the ongoing border controversy with Venezuela.

Following a meeting with Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) General Secretary Lincoln Lewis says the opposition’s recent engagement with the trade union body and civil society is giving meaning to inclusionary democracy envisaged in the constitution.

Skeldon Electricity Inc. (SEI), which is in charge of the GuySuCo Co-generation plant at Skeldon, is assuring Region Six residents that no major power outages are expected over the holiday season.

The Canadian High Com-mission in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Protection and the Guyana Police Force yesterday facilitated a self-defence training session in observance of the 16 days of Activism for the Elimination of Gender-Based Violence.

A Guyanese woman who was arrested at the John F Kennedy International Airport in New York last year is to be sentenced in February 2017 and faces imprisonment of between 18 and 24 months after which she will be deported.

The mayoralty of Corriverton changed hands on Friday last, when a re-election to break Thursday’s tied vote saw former Deputy Mayor Krishnand Jaichand, winning with nine votes out of 15; former Mayor Ganesh Gangadin secured the other six votes.

Mayor of Lethem Carlton Beckles and Deputy Mayor Maxine Welch were re-elected on Thursday last, when mayoral elections were held in that municipality.

BEIJING/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – China lodged a diplomatic protest on Saturday after U.S.

BANJUL (Reuters) – The winner of Gambia’s presidential election told Reuters yesterday he was keen to form a new cabinet to get cracking with reforms, a day after veteran leader Yahya Jammeh stunned the tiny West African nation by conceding defeat.

A recent study by University of Guyana students, which found that the quality of life in kidney failure patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) was higher among those who received hemodialysis, as compared to those on peritoneal dialysis, has been questioned as doctors say inferior drugs were being used during the research period.

SANTIAGO, Cuba (Reuters) – President Raul Castro led tens of thousands of Cubans yesterday in a pledge to defend the socialist legacy of his brother Fidel Castro, who died last week aged 90 and will be interred in the city where they launched the Cuban Revolution.

A smash-up between two vehicles including a Route 42 minibus yesterday morning along the Herstelling Public Road, East Bank Demerara has left one woman seriously injured and a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) corporal nursing minor injuries.

SANTIAGO, Cuba (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Cubans packed into a public square in Santiago de Cuba yesterday, joining dignitaries to bid farewell to revolutionary leader Fidel Castro in the city where his ashes will be entombed.

OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) – A fire that erupted during a dance party in a warehouse in Oakland, California, killed at least nine people and left about two dozen missing, raising fears the death toll would rise, authorities said yesterday.

CARACAS (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro said on Friday  Venezuela would issue higher denomination bills “very soon” as soaring inflation and a crumbling currency leave the crisis-stricken country’s largest note worth just 2 US cents on the black market.

Thursday night’s Chateau Margot Public Road crash victim has been discharged from the hospital and is currently at home recuperating.