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An apology has been issued to parents of female students of Santa Rosa Secondary School, North West District who were stripped and searched last month for missing money.

While the Guyana Police Force says there is no increase in crime here, former President Donald Ramotar differs, saying that not only there is a rise but it is different from  the crimes of the past and is  as a direct result of high unemployment rates.

The Bartica Town Council is pleading with residents and business owners to pay their rates and taxes as the fledgling municipality is “cash-strapped.”

The International Children’s Heart Foundation (ICHF) has completed 175 cardiac-related procedures during its sixth mission in Guyana, which came to an end on Saturday.

Police are monitoring at least 120 Close Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras set up in and on the outskirts of the city and their use has been successful in identifying and charging traffic violators, Acting Police Commissioner David Ramnarine disclosed on Friday.

Acting Crime Chief Hugh Jessemy says police are still investigating the Friday night shooting at Enmore, East Coast Demerara that left three persons injured.

The cane harvesters attached to Rose Hall estate who are currently on strike over a disagreement in relation to daily quotas had failed to meet “agreed standard requirements,” according to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo).

Devon King, who was involved in an accident on the Friendship, East Bank Demerara public road which claimed the lives of two brothers Jonnel Armstrong, 28, and Phillip Armstrong, 27, remains a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.

The young couple who were shot on Saturday night have been transferred to the wards at the GPHC where they are recovering.

Nineteen indigenous men and women from across Guyana were recognised on September 26 for their contributions to Guyana’s development at the Umana Yana.

Ten women entrepreneurs graduated on Wednesday evening from the Volunteer Youth Corps’ (VYC) business initiative, a component of the group’s Women Empowerment Programme.

Acting top cop David Ramnarine on Friday assured that the Monica Reece murder investigation is still very much alive and made it clear that he doesn’t know which police officer covered up the crime.

71 students graduated from the Schools of Music, Dance, Fine Arts (ERBSA) and Theatre Arts and Drama at the third Convocation of the Institute of Creative Arts (ICA), which was held at the National Cultural Centre on September 27.

Tinnenben Animation Studio two Saturdays ago launched its ‘Nancy School Daze’ series, funded by IPED, at the Herdmanston Lodge.

Privileged Clothing and Naked Skin Soaps emerged winner and runner-up respectively in the Scotiabank Vision Achiever LivePitch 2016 competition.

National Grade Six Assessment 2016 top performers from the East Coast of Demerara were last week  rewarded at Benjamin’s Bakery’s tenth Annual Bursary Ceremony.

A resident of St Ignatius, Rupununi in Region Nine contested as a councillor for the town of Bon Fim when Brazil held its Municipal Elections yesterday.

LES CAYES, Haiti/ KINGSTON,  (Reuters) – Haiti and Jamaica urged residents in vulnerable coastal areas to evacuate and Cuba suspended flights yesterday as bands of rain from Hurricane Matthew, the strongest storm to menace Caribbean nations since 2007, drenched the Jamaican capital.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian political parties implicated in the massive Petrobras corruption scandal, including that of President Michel Temer, suffered major setbacks in yesterday’s municipal elections that put right-leaning candidates ahead in key cities.

ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – More than 50 people were killed in a stampede in Ethiopia’s Oromiya region that was triggered when police used teargas and shot in the air yesterday to disperse anti-government protesters at a religious festival.