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The Guyana Learning Channel (GLC) will now be used to broadcast programmes of national interest along the lines of development support communication.

The Pan-Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) has been hailed as a best practice and regional coordination model which can be adapted to address the challenges of other public health threats.

Rice farmers from the Hogstye, Lancaster, Alness, Manchester and other areas in Corentyne, Berbice are suffering tremendously, as heavy rainfall continues, fuelling the flood situation.

WESTMORELAND, Jamaica (Observer) – A Canadian real estate agent was shot dead in West End, Westmoreland, on Friday night.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s elections council said on Friday it will begin a process of validating signatures of citizens seeking a recall referendum against President Nicolas Maduro, a small step in the opposition’s effort to remove a deeply unpopular leader.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States yesterday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said.

With the government still to declare a plan for the ailing sugar industry, stakeholders will likely face more waiting time as a parliamentary committee is now seeking submissions on the Guyana Sugar Corporation.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Jamaican gay rights activist has failed in his novel lawsuit challenging T&T’s and Belize’s homophobic immigration laws.

(Reuters) – Actor Michael Jace, best known for playing a policeman on the TV drama “The Shield,” was sentenced yesterday to 40 years to life for shooting his wife dead in front of the couple’s two children at their Los Angeles home, a court official said.

The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) had no fixed asset register despite having billions of dollars in equipment and management was unable to explain how it spent $1.8b in repairs over 2011-2014.

-solitary pump at key Trafalgar sluice   Photos by Keno George   With floodwater coursing down the Mahaicony River, several Region Five villages remained inundated yesterday and as farmers and householders counted their losses, questions were being raised as to why the drainage authority wasn’t doing more to relieve their plight.

The bloody body of a mechanic was on Thursday night found in his bed at his Madewini, East Bank Demerara house with numerous stab wounds leaving his family baffled as to what might have led to his murder.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for 20-year-old Shemar Wilson, who is suspected to be the mastermind in the lobbing of a grenade outside the Kaieteur News (KN) office last week Saturday, while five persons remain in custody.

Deliberate efforts were made to understate the cost of the Hope Canal Project for which the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) spent more than $257M though it was substantively funded from the PetroCaribe Fund.

Yogendra Persaud, a Grade Four pupil of Graham’s Hall Primary, collapsed during the break period at his school on Wednesday, and was later pronounced dead on arrival at a city hospital.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) with the help of the government has set up a $100m floating base at the mouth of the Waini River in the northwest to tackle piracy and other crimes.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has received 29 nominations for membership on the five-member Public Procurement Commission (PPC).

The murder trial of Kevin Washington and Dennecia Halley, the duo accused of murdering of seaman Antonio Isles in 2013 ended abruptly yesterday, owing to a lack of evidence.

The sudden decision by Trans Guyana Airways to suspend flights indefinitely to the North Rupununi has left residents cut off and concerns have been expressed over the effect on tourism in the district.

Teachers of Brickdam Secondary yesterday staged a sit-out in protest over conditions at their school.