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The Commonwealth will next month take Guyana’s offer of almost the entire local rainforest for climate change initiatives to the Heads of Government Meeting in Uganda in the hope of furthering action on deriving benefits from standing forests.

The National Archives is to be named after slain historian Dr Walter Rodney.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday committed $15M for the restoration of the Theatre Guild.

A 59-year-old security guard and a 13-year-old boy were yesterday killed in separate vehicular accidents and the drivers of the vehicles are in police custody.

With no sign of the Air Services Limited plane which vanished from the Essequibo coast on Sunday, one senior police officer says that the disappearance may have been the work of drug dealers.

In the aftermath of two visits here by Barbados Deputy Prime Minister Mia Mottley, a seven-member delegation arrived here for a joint commission meeting aimed at strengthening ties.

There were calls at the meeting yesterday of Common-wealth Finance Ministers to ensure that Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRBs) is taken seriously and for finance ministries to be given assistance to take the lead role in the process as urged by Commonwealth women’s affairs ministers.

Sixteen-year-old Collin Barry who was flung from his motorcycle by a speeding Route 40 minibus at the corner of Regent and Wellington streets last week succumbed to his injuries just before midnight on Tuesday.

Commonwealth finance ministers are urging developing member countries to intensify efforts to strengthen transparency and accountability by conducting self-assessments.

Guyana has not seen an increase in dengue cases but a few neighbouring countries have, so the country is on high alert and local surveillance has been scaled up, according to Minister of Health, Dr.

For farmers in two hinterland villages, located hundreds of miles apart, common concerns of transportation, markets, pests and climate change were raised with Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud, when he visited the two communities yesterday.

The Ministry of Health on Thursday launched its Youth Friendly Services (YFS) programme in Region Three at the Windsor Forest Health Centre.

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) will next month hold special consultations with organisations, groups and individuals of the African-Guyanese community who will be able to make known their concerns.

The Guyana Relief Council (GRC) says it is grateful to those persons whose generosity allowed it to respond promptly to the needs of the fire victims at Laing Avenue and it encourages the public to continue to assist.

Wireless Connections said three of its customers benefited from its Monday Moods and Friday Hits live radio programmes, with one walking away with $120,000.

Commonwealth Ministers of Finance in their discussions here this week focused on issues relating to governance at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund as they recognised the need to identify and raise additional funding for infrastructure development programmes.

Chairman of the University of Guyana Council, Dr. Prem Misir barred the University of Guyana Workers Union (UGWU) from sitting in at a key meeting last evening to discuss the contract renewal of Dr.

The Buddy’s fuel trial was once again stalled yesterday owing to the absence of the prosecution and the defence has still not laid over their written submissions to the court although they were warned to do so almost two weeks ago.

Tempers flared last Friday while a time was being set for the continuation of the Farouk Razac murder PI this week and ended with special prosecutor Hukumchand threatening to give up the case in which beauty queen Carolan Lynch is accused of her husband’s murder, saying that his schedule was not taken into consideration when a High Court judge ordered that the case be heard whenever that court sits.

Stating that he could not “accept” the custodial penalty for simple larceny, a man accused of stealing produce worth over $170,000 was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Providence Magistrate’s Court yesterday.