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Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo today defended the adjournment of Parliament to May 4th.

KOLKATA, India, CMC – Head coach Phil Simmons says West Indies will use their final official warm-up match of the Twenty20 World Cup on Sunday against Australia, to allow players to streamline their roles for the group campaign beginning next week.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport Inc (CJIA) is seeking the owner of a quantity of gold jewellery that was found at the airport on December 12, 2014.

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

President David Granger has local government elections (LGE) advice for the voting public: “Choose persons you trust to run your communities.”

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo yesterday declared that government was ready for nationwide competition in radio and television.

In the wake of its observations during the recent disciplined services voting for local government elections, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Thursday said it will push again for legislation to be enacted to stipulate that voters must possess a physical form of national identification.

The second hearing of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the fatal Camp Street prison unrest was yesterday deferred until Monday after President of the Guyana Bar Association (GBA) Christopher Ram successfully moved for its members to have full participatory rights instated.

A man, who was supposedly the victim of an armed robbery committed yesterday during which $3 million was carted off while he was making a deposit, is in police custody.

Almost eight months after farmer Orton Benjamin died when a Coastguard vessel collided with his boat, the police have received advice to charge the captain of the vessel.

A visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission has suggested that authorities moderate the growth of wages and reform public enterprises to reduce their reliance on government support.

A team of Wai Wai builders, who recently completed the structure for the Umana Yana reconstruction, have been paid, the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs said yesterday.

Ending a controversial five-year multimillion contract with the Ramroop Group-owned TVG, the government yesterday announced that the state-owned National Communications Network (NCN) will be providing the satellite uplink for the Guyana Learning Channel.

Updating the zoning laws were among the commitments made by four of the five candidates, who met residents of Subryanville on Thursday to discuss their plans for the constituency if elected at next Friday’s polls.

City workers yesterday demolished a structure which had been constructed over a drain and alleyway on Fern Drive, South Ruimveldt, outside of Andrew’s Supermarket.

Residents of Georgetown will have another opportunity to familiarise themselves with the candidates seeking their votes on March 18 when Merundoi Incorporated airs the ‘Georgetown Constituency Debates 2016.’

With the next sitting of the National Assembly scheduled for May 4th, the opposition has expressed concern about the lengthy adjournment.

A short film festival, showcasing Guyana’s culture, is part of this year’s Golden Jubilee celebrations.

For the second consecutive year, Guyanese writer Imam Baksh has been shortlisted for CODE’s Burt Award for Caribbean Literature.

The Ministry of Education’s Department of Culture, Youth and Sport through the Mashramani Secretariat has released a new route for the float parade in May.