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A 15-year-old was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) yesterday morning nursing stab wounds he reportedly sustained at the hands of a relative.

The parliamentary opposition is not satisfied with the level of the dialogue with the government.

With two senior ministers reported to be seeking retirement there will be a cabinet reshuffle and there may be a reduction in the number of ministers and a reshuffle of permanent secretaries, as well.

Water drained off from several villages along the East Coast Demerara yesterday, while some sections of central Georgetown maintained their lake-like appearance.

For the first time in several years, poultry producers are confident that the supply of chicken will be adequate for the holiday season, but they are still looking for the big sales.

Twenty-seven-year-old Trecia Wintz, a mother of six boys aged two months to eight years old, is excited at being able to move into her own home at Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice before Christmas.

The PNCR is calling on the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to take stock of businesses believed to be sustained by the drug industry and to urgently undertake audits of such businesses in the public’s interest.

There was an uproar in the Emergency Room of the Georgetown Public Hospital on Thursday night when a Kuru Kuru man with a gaping head wound, which was infested with worms and had a foul scent, was taken to seek medical attention.

The union representing sacked National Communica-tions Network (NCN) employee Andrea Bryan is insisting that it meets management since the incident has implications for the future of other employees.

University of Guyana (UG) Tain campus’s former best graduating student boycotted yesterday’s convocation ceremony after a grade mix-up by the Examinations Division stole that honour from him and elevated his runner-up to valedictorian.

The administration of the Critchlow Labour College (CLC) was on Friday still hopeful that subventions covering the past three months from the Ministry of Education to assist the institution in meeting its day-to-day expenses, including the payment of salaries for some staff, would be released this week.

Two men are missing after the tug they were on was hit by heavy rains and high winds early Friday morning about eight miles off the Golden Fleece, Essequibo foreshore.

Kennav HDL Limited yesterday donated a 14″ colour television set to a 12-year-old deaf mute girl, fulfilling her Christmas wish.

An 18-year-old with defective kidneys needs in excess of US$36,000 to have a life-saving transplant done at a hospital in India.

A man accused of using a cutlass in robbing another of his cell phone and cash, appeared yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court and was remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton.

A man who is currently serving a fifteen-year sentence at the Camp Street prison appeared on Wednesday in court charged with having over 350 grammes of cannabis in his possession at the facility.

Magistrate Oneidge Walrond-Allicock on Tuesday granted bail to a health worker accused of attempting to obtain more than $100,000 from the Bank of Guyana (BoG) using a forged cheque.

Two men, including a school teacher, appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with separate counts of indecent assault and were remanded to prison by Principal Magis-trate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

The US citizen who was caught at the airport with parcels of cocaine strapped to her lower body, yesterday changed her plea to guilty and was sentenced to four years in prison by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton together with a fine of $225,000.

The United States on Wednesday issued a provisional arrest warrant for West Coast Demerara businessman, Barry Datram and will soon take steps to extradite him to New York to face charges of conspiracy to export over five kilos of cocaine into that country.