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A radio broadcaster is among four men trying to win the seat for the Albouystown/Charlestown constituency at the March 18 local government elections.

A new Gaming Authority should be established by the end of this month and will be reviewing agreements pertaining to the operating of casinos signed during the People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration, government says.

At least five prisoners will testify today when the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the disturbances at the Georgetown Prison which resulted in 17 deaths officially begins.

Residents living in several villages along the East Bank Berbice expressed their frustration on Tuesday at having discoloured water flowing through their pipelines and they travelled over five miles to picket the local offices of Guyana Water Inc (GWI), in New Amsterdam.

Government yesterday said that it sees no need to make next Friday, March 18, a holiday to facilitate local government elections.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Colin Alleyne, the man accused of killing elderly Montrose caretaker Danrasie Ganesh, began yesterday with the testimonies of two of the deceased’s children.

Five local prison officers will in May be participating in the United States’ annual Mock Prison Riot training, on the heels of this country’s worst prison revolt, which left 17 inmates dead and several others wounded.

The three-man commission which will inquire into the deadly fire at the George-town Prison is pushing for counselling services to be made available to all those who have been affected by the tragedy.

Two additional charges were yesterday instituted against hire car driver Totaram Ramsaroop, who allegedly hit a mother and her teenage son as they were walking along the Seawell road, East Coast Berbice on Monday.

Three youths who were allegedly involved in robbing a French national of over $200,000 in cash and valuables were yesterday discharged after no evidence was offered against them.

Multi-million dollar tenders were opened on Tuesday for the provision of security services to the Ministry of Public Health.

Turkey yesterday handed over two ambulances worth $25m to Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders boasted at a debate in Miami yesterday that his upset win in Michigan’s primary the day before over front-runner Hillary Clinton had rejuvenated his campaign and strengthened his case for being the party’s nominee.

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was charged in a money laundering investigation led by Sao Paulo state prosecutors yesterday, intensifying scrutiny of the politician questioned in a separate federal graft probe last week.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s electoral board kicked the main rival to presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori out of the race on a technicality yesterday, removing the front-runner’s biggest obstacle to winning the office once held by her jailed father.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Agents of the United States (US) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are expected to travel to Jamaica in the coming days to take possession of just over J$100 million, or close to US$1.7 million (at the exchange rate that existed between 2011 and 2014), which local authorities have traced to Jamaica-born accountant Pamela Watson.

(Barbados Nation) Government has announced a 12-month prohibition on the importation of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), also known as unmanned aerial vehicles or drones, with effect from Friday, April 1. 

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – A deadly algal bloom has hit the world’s second biggest salmon exporter, Chile, where nearly 23 million fish have already died and the economic impact from lost production is seen soaring to $800 million, industry and government sources told Reuters.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba said it would welcome President Barack Obama to Havana later this month, but the Communist government had no intention of changing its policies in exchange for normal relations with the United States.

The PPP/C today called for March 18, the date of historic local government elections to be declared a national holiday.