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President David Granger maintains that the Government Information Agency (GINA) has a responsibility to provide coverage of the opposition.

Sitting City Councillor Junior Garrett will take on electrical contractor Andrew Ramcharran and carpenter Ramchandra Kissoon at the March 18 local government elections in Constituency Three.

A pedestrian was killed on Friday afternoon after she was struck down while attempting to cross the Golden Grove Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

Swift action by the owner of a taxi service at Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo, helped to foil a carjacking on Thursday night and led to the arrest of a few suspects, one of whom subsequently escaped from the Leonora Police Station.

Guyana may be home to some 5,300 illegal immigrants, according to Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix, who said there would be efforts made to get the Immigration Department extra manpower to trace them.

Investigators managed to obtain two spent shells and two live rounds after a contractor had four shots fired at him, one of which grazed his abdomen, on Friday afternoon at Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD) during what is suspected to be an attempted robbery.

University of Guyana Chancellor Nigel Harris says sourcing financial support remains a critical question in any effort to sustained higher standards at the institution.

Minister within the Ministry of Communities Dawn Hastings accepted the opposition’s tag of a ‘vampire’ budget and raised them one by asserting that it will suck the blood of corruption that was inherited from the past administration.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis launched a broadside against endemic corruption yesterday on his first visit to Mexico as pontiff, calling on President Enrique Pena Nieto and his government to combat it.

The passage of this year’s national budget would enable the Social Cohesion Ministry to lay the foundation for building and sustaining a momentum that would foster longer term social programming, Minister Amna Ally declared on Thursday.

Former public service minister Jennifer Westford on Wednesday took aim at government over its treatment of contract workers and for failing to announce salary increases for public servants.

MUNICH/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Russia said yesterday a Syria ceasefire plan was more likely to fail than succeed, as Syrian government forces backed by Russian air strikes took rebel ground near Aleppo and set their sights on the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa province.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti disbanded its abusive armed forces two decades ago but uniformed veterans and young recruits are resurfacing to add another destabilising factor to the volatile Caribbean nation already dealing with a political vacuum.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Conservative US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died, setting up a major political showdown between President Barack Obama and the Republican-controlled Senate over who will replace him just months before a presidential election.

Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton said on Wednesday that once approved the $28 billion allocated to the health sector in the national budget will be divided into seven programmes aimed at addressing the sector holistically.

MUNICH/BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls rejected yesterday the idea of a permanent quota system for distributing refugees across Europe, putting Paris at odds with Germany ahead of a summit to discuss the EU crisis over migration.

WASHINGTON/HAVANA (Reuters) – The United States has recovered an inert Hellfire air-to-ground missile that had mistakenly ended up in Cuba, US and Cuban officials said yesterday.

The National Suicide Awareness and Prevention Programme under the Nirvana Humanitarian Society was inaugurated  today with a walk from the Leonora Synthetic Track to Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara, GINA said.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – A campaign which started in disappointment could now end in glory for Young West Indies when they clash with India in the final of the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup here Sunday.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – More than 5,000 pregnant Colombian women are infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus, the country’s national health institute said on Saturday, as the disease continues its rapid spread across the Americas.