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The Ministry of Health is on high alert for any respiratory virus with the potential to cause an outbreak and it has intensified surveillance of all acute respiratory illnesses (ARI).

The National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) said it expects no less than a nine per cent pay increase for workers at the Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL).

Solidarity Platform continues to support the dismissed Republic Bank (Guyana) workers’ efforts to clear their names and joined them in their thirtieth picketing exercise outside the bank’s New Market Street office yesterday.

The Women’s Progressive Organization (WPO) is hosting its 15th Triennial Congress at the Bath Primary School today and tomorrow with a view to identifying a framework to guide its programme of activities for the next three years.

The Guyana Police Force has managed to charge over 6,000 defaulting drivers since the launching of Traffic Department’s ‘Operation Safeway’ campaign.

Sohan Jaikaran Poonai left the Hugh Wooding Law School as its best graduating student for 2007.

The Home Affairs Minister has called for the formation of more Community Policing Groups (CPGs), while acknowledging that there is a shortage of police officers, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

Dear Editor, I refer to your report that the Georgetown City Council is operating on a $2 billion deficit, and to eliminate this deficit, the council needs to raise more taxes from various avenues.

Two proposed changes to the Venezuelan constitution are major dangers to freedom of expression and private property, an Inter-America Press Association (IAPA) delegation to Venezuela found.

Police have launched an investigation into an alleged robbery by ‘trunkers’ committed on a West Coast Demerara businessman outside a police station.

Representatives of the Chinese National Fisheries Corporation (CNFC) on Thursday met Prime Minister Sam Hinds to discuss the possibilities of partnership between the two countries’ fisheries sector.

Britain needs to review its policy in relation to criminal deportees to Caribbean terrorities as regional police forces are not capable of responding to the sophisticated methods utilized by them, President Bharrat Jagdeo says.

To date 127 non-governmental, civil society and religious organisations have called for major reforms to the Sexual Offences Act.

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Region Four Chairman Clement Corlette says he has no intention of emulating the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) though he thinks engaging the council would set the best possible standard in the region.

A 45-year-old teacher will have to spend the holiday season in prison after Magistrate Allan Wilson remanded him yesterday on an indecent assault charge.

Magistrate Geeta Chandan, sitting at the Weldaad Court, yesterday again refused bail for the man who was accused of beheading another.

A Venezuelan publication is calling on that country’s government to admit it made a mistake, offer apologies and pay compensation for the two dredges its military destroyed in the Cuyuni on November 15.

Instead of maximizing profits in the run up to the Christmas season, two Regent Street businesses might be head-to-head in court over a property dispute.

On the morning of Thursday, November 15, 36 Venezuelan soldiers, including members of an engineering corps under the command of a general, invaded Guyana’s territory in the Cuyuni River.