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Montrose on the East Coast Demerara is home to approximately 1,500 residents.

The clerks for the three new towns are currently temporary appointments and permanent appointments will be made in consultation with the town councils, Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan has said.

A member of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) lost her life early yesterday morning when she was struck down by a car on Sheriff Street.

A businessman was abducted from his Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara (WCD) home yesterday morning but freed about an hour after when his captors realised that they had the wrong man.

Officials of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) have not been able to interview Winston Brassington in connection with the findings of a forensic audit into the management of government’s holding company, National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), which remains under investigation.

Stricken with poliomyelitis while still a toddler and confined to a wheelchair for the past 20-odd years, 57-year-old Pamela London’s life has been difficult, but domestic violence, ridicule and poverty have made it harsh and unfair on all fronts.

In light of the surfacing of a photograph of a mother breastfeeding her newborn under a bed in the maternal ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) last week, Public Health Minister Dr.

Guyanese singer, Mark Ferdinand who was held in New York in February, 2015 on a cocaine charge spent seven months in jail before being released after a court agreed that he be sentenced to time served.

Preparations are moving ahead in a New York court for the sentencing on April 25 of Guyana-born businessman Ed Ahmad for mortgage fraud conspiracy.

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday he should have handled scrutiny of his family’s tax arrangements better, seeking to reassert his leadership after days of negative media coverage and calls for his resignation.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The main identified suspects in Islamic State attacks on Paris and Brussels are now dead or in custody after Belgian investigators charged two men yesterday with aiding last month’s Brussels suicide bombers.

The three shortlisted Guyanese candidates for the vacant post of University of Guyana Vice-Chancellor are Professor Rory Fraser, Professor Stanford Griffith and Dr Ivelaw Griffith.

The body of Tactical Services Unit (TSU) Special Constable Akeem Hyles, who is feared drowned after the boat he was in capsized in the Amatuk Falls area, Potaro River on Friday, has not yet been recovered, while concern has been voiced over the fact that he was not wearing a lifejacket at the time of the mishap.

WASHINGTON – Bernie Sanders won the US presidential Democratic nominating contest in Wyoming yesterday, besting rival Hillary Clinton and adding to a string of recent victories as the two candidates gear up for a crucial matchup in New York.

ZURICH (Reuters) – After years trying to buy the property from its private owner, the Austrian government wants to seize the house where Adolf Hitler was born to prevent it falling into neo-Nazi hands.

HAVANA (Reuters) – The ubiquitous fridges that dispense beer in Cuba’s bars, cafes and gas stations are running out of the island’s favourite Cristal and Bucanero brands in recent weeks, as a surge in American tourists and new private watering holes strain the main brewery.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Cristina Fernandez, who stepped down as president of Argentina in December after eight years in office, has been charged by a prosecutor with money laundering, local media reported yesterday.

LIMA (Reuters) – Three people were killed and six injured in an attack staged by suspected leftist Shining Path rebels on the eve of Peru’s presidential election, authorities said.

KOLKATA, India, CMC – All-rounder Carlos Brathwaite says his new-found Twenty20 fame has not thwarted his love for Test cricket, and hopes to fashion a successful career across all three formats of the game.

The Office of the Leader of the Opposition today called on the Guyana Elections Commission to take action over the electoral ties in six local government areas on March 18 which have seen the Minister of Communities deciding who would head the bodies and the opposition PPP/C moving to court over the mater.