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The 50th Independence Anniversary Flag Raising Ceremony at Linden is being described as, “the most well attended” for the town, GINA said.

Moments before Guyana welcomed its 50th year of being an independent nation, the people of Mahdia were urged to unite as they go into the next 50 years as an independent nation, GINA said.

(Reuters) – U.S. health officials yesterday reported the first case in the country of a patient with an infection resistant to all known antibiotics, and expressed grave concern that the superbug could pose serious danger for routine infections if it spreads.

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran is launching his third book `Governance, Transparency and Accountability’ tomorrow under the auspices of Transparency Institute Guyana Inc.

PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panama’s Supreme Court yesterday called on the Central American country’s government to request the extradition of former President Ricardo Martinelli from the United States.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s parliament yesterday approved a bill allowing state expropriations of land to redress racial disparities in land ownership, an emotive issue two decades after the end of apartheid.

SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – El Salvador’s Congress yesterday approved a bond issuance of $152 million to finance a series of measures aimed at tackling endemic gang violence in the poor Central American country.

MONROVIA, (Reuters) – A grand jury in Liberia has indicted government officials, including the speaker of parliament and the head of the ruling party, along with London AIM-listed Sable Mining on charges including bribery.

KIEV, (Reuters) – Ukraine has banned former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev from entry for the next five years over his support for Russia’s seizure of Crimea, a spokeswoman for Ukraine’s State Security Service (SBU) said yesterday.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The Committee to Protect Journalists, a press freedom watchdog group, was denied consultative status at the United Nations yesterday, with South Africa, Russia and China among the countries that opposed it.

HARARE, (Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has granted amnesty to all female prisoners except those on death row or serving life sentences, as prisons struggle to feed inmates due to lack of funding from the government.

DAKAR, (Reuters) – Forests in Senegal’s lush Casamance region risk disappearing within two years because of illegal timber smuggling, one of the West African country’s foremost environmentalists said yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell has lambasted the leadership and governance structure of the beleaguered West Indies Cricket Board as “antiquated” and has once against urged the organisation to reform itself.

(Trinidad Guardian) It will take more than just the police to address effectively the crime in the country, acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams said yesterday, as he again begged all sectors of society to help the police stop the current crime wave.

Fifty years after the Union Jack was lowered and a newly independent Guyana raised the Golden Arrowhead, thousands of Guyanese turned out last night to witness a spectacle of song, dance and military displays as the country marked half a century of freedom from British rule.

Barbadian Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, Senior Counsel Rex McKay and Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Barton Scotland head this year’s national awards announced last night at the 50th independence flag raising at  D’Urban Park.

While others were ushering in Guyana’s Golden Jubilee at D’Urban Park last evening, Alieka Davis was mourning the loss of her son, who died after being hit by a truck that was transporting steel pans at the North Ruimveldt Secondary School.

Charges were yesterday read to the former husband of Babita Sarjou, who disappeared almost 6 years ago, and his alleged accomplice who were held by police in relation to her murder.

Police yesterday recovered money and a firearm that had been reported stolen during an attack outside of Demerara Bank at Le Ressouvenir on the East Coast of Demerara on Monday and the two guards at the centre of the incident have been arrested.

Minister of Health Dr George Norton on Tuesday declared that the country is experiencing no shortage of drugs and described a motion by the PPP/C taken to Parliament as playing politics with people’s lives while the mover of the motion Dr Frank Anthony described the situation as a crisis and called for an investigation to be done.