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A young Berbice resident died in a city hospital on Friday evening, some two days after he was shot to the abdomen with pellets when a lone gunman attacked him as he entered his premises.

Assistant Commissioner of Police Balram Persaud is currently a patient in a private hospital in the city after he was involved in an accident on Friday night.

The current Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) planting programme has been reduced by more than 50% due to the water shortages caused by El Nino weather pattern, according to GuySuCo’s Agriculture Services Manager Raymond Sangster, who says next year’s crop yield will be negatively affected.

Former GuySuCo Chair-man Vic Oditt says an alternative to the planned closure of the Wales sugar estate is turning it into a public company that could continue to cultivate sugar and make the needed investments to up the production.

Promising that local government elections will be held every three years, President David Granger yesterday said that they would put “real power” in the hands of the people and government would work with them.

It has been more than two months since a man was fatally struck on Duncan Street and his family is still waiting for the driver responsible to face the law.

The Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) will erect billboards in each constituency in an effort to educate voters about the boundaries of their constituency.

Efforts to improve and standardise primary health care in Guyana were boosted by the Ministry of Public Health with the launch of the Second Edition of the Standard Treatment Guidelines (STGs) for Primary Health Care on Friday.

Friday’s launch of the Guyana Artistic Music Awards saw a less than desirable turnout, prompting an age-old discussion among the attendees about the importance of supporting local talent.

Schools taking part in the Children’s Costume Parade on February 20, are preparing their floats and costumes and a few well-known designers are on hand to assist.

Seven years after his dismissal from the RUSAL-run Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.

The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) on Thursday defended the sector’s contribution to the economy and said that members are yet to benefit from duty-free concessions granted last year even as the deadline looms.

While the leadership of the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region Nine says the Regional Executive Officer Carl Parker is trying to stymie development, he says the needs of the people are being placed on the backburner as political discord is being sown.

Bibi Ramsaram copped the grand prize, a brand new French-door style refrigerator, in De Desinco’s Milex 2015 Christmas promotion.

Thirty-one new US Peace Corps volunteers and will begin their stints at various schools and health centres on April 11.

A police officer who is stationed at the Impact Base, Brickdam was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital on Friday evening after he was hit off the motorcycle he was riding, reportedly by a minibus.

Quoting staggering statistics which show the impact of cancer in the region, the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) last week urged governments to step up the implementation of public policies that could prevent more than one-third of cancers.

Editors from around the region, the BVI and Bermuda, gathered in Guyana recently for the first Caribbean Literature Action Group (CaribLit) residential, fiction-editing workshop.

TAINAN, TAIWAN (Reuters) – A powerful earthquake struck Taiwan early on Saturday killing at least 12 people, most in a 17-storey apartment building that collapsed, with some people still known to be missing in the ruins of the complex as night fell, government officials said.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti’s outgoing President Michel Martelly has reached an agreement with parliament to form a caretaker government when he leaves power today without an elected successor, in a step that could calm violent protests rocking the capital.