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The opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Thursday accused the government of using state resources to campaign ahead of this week’s local government polls.

Candidates for Bartica’s historic municipal elections are stepping up their campaigning for Friday’s vote amid heightened public interest over a group of independents challenging the governing APNU+AFC and the opposition PPP/C.

The Department of Culture, Youth and Sport of the Ministry of Education has retracted statements by Head of the Mashramani Secretariat Lennox Canterbury on a final decision having been made regarding the new route for the May 26 float parade.

A mini totem pole, which will be used as a symbol of Guyanese unity, was unveiled on Friday at the National Art Gallery, Castellani House.

Many Tucville residents are now breathing sighs of relief as works are underway to upgrade the community’s roads.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s government yesterday ruled out any discussion of the presidency or presidential elections at peace talks and criticised the UN envoy overseeing next week’s negotiations.

A city policeman escaped serious injury when the vehicle he was driving suffered a blowout and toppled several times on the Bamia Public Road, Linden/Soesdyke Highway yesterday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) –The Islamic State is using several forms of contraception to maintain its supply of sex slaves, the New York Times reported yesterday, citing interviews with more than three dozen Yazidi women who escaped from the militant group.

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo yesterday said the six-week adjournment of the National Assembly could have been avoided if the opposition had chosen to nominate a candidate to be Deputy Speaker.

DAYTON, Ohio (Reuters) – Secret Service agents rushed to protect US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on stage during a disturbance at a rally yesterday, a day after rowdy protests shut down his event in Chicago.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition launched a new protest campaign today to oust President Nicolas Maduro, but support was thin and the ruling Socialists countered it with their own “anti-imperialist” rally.

TUNIS (Reuters) – Libya’s UN-backed Presidential Council yesterday called on the country’s institutions to begin a transfer of authority to a unity government, and appealed to the international community to stop dealing with any rival powers.

LIMA (Reuters) – Thousands of Peruvians marched in downtown Lima on Friday to demand the electoral board bar presidential frontrunner Keiko Fujimori from next month’s vote after it disqualified two of her rivals in an unprecedented move that has shaken the race.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s main coalition partner served notice yesterday that it could break from her embattled Workers’ Party government in 30 days and join opposition efforts to unseat the leftist leader.

By Jim Yong Kim Since the Zika outbreak gained global attention earlier this year, photos of babies with microcephaly have appeared on television screens and newspapers around the world.

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Roosters running rampant in an Australian city were rounded up yesterday in a campaign to curb the crowing cocks.

Optique Vision Care collaborated with Rotary Club of Stabroek in an eye care project in observation of World Glaucoma Week during which 17 children from two orphanages and four public schools were provided with free spectacles.

A report in yesterday’s edition of the Stabroek News titled ‘Sales rep in police custody after $3M robbery’ erroneously stated that the incident occurred at the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry, while the sales representative was sitting in the bank located at the Ramada Princess Hotel waiting to transact business.

As the 1970s began, India’s cricket was on the rise under the astute captaincy of the Nawab of Pataudi Jnr.

(Trinidad Guardian) – The jubilation that hundreds of steel workers experienced on Thursday when the Industrial Court granted them victory over ArcelorMittal turned to grief on Friday, after the company terminated the employment of its 700-plus work force.