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The de-politicisation of the Guyana Elections Commis-sion (GECOM) remains a key feature of the final observer report for last year’s polls.

Five-year-old Girwattie Nelson of Yakusari Nursery School, who fell 20 ft from a section of the school corridor where some of the rails were missing, ended up with both of her legs in cast on Thursday after x-rays showed that they were fractured.

Relatives of Marcel Neptune who died after he was chopped on the neck last October in the Festival City area are dissatisfied with the lack of progress in the investigation into his murder.

At the end of last year there were some 1,600 persons on anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment in Guyana with 800 orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) being served by the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR) OVC programme.

A massive clean-up exercise has begun in South Georgetown and residents hope to host a cultural fete on its completion.

Forty-eight women from across the country have launched a campaign to write to political leaders about the issues affecting them as a way of dealing with the “unfulfilled promises” made to them .They

Bandits on Wednesday robbed a woman of cash and jewellery when they stuck-up the Cool Square Beer Garden.

Joan Wiles-Alleyne appears to be an unassuming woman but beneath that fa?e

An East Bank Demerara man was on Thursday arrested after a police cordon and search operation unearthed two guns with matching ammunition.

Just days before her 24th birthday, the body of a young woman was recovered from the Essequibo River where she had gone to swim and drowned on Thursday.

Four men have been held and two others are being sought in connection with a $90 million diamond heist that was staged at the start of the month.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) advises consumers to request weighing of solid goods by mass and not volume.

An armed robbery at a Chinese restaurant at Industry on Thursday has been linked to a gang believed to be behind a series of robberies around the city.

Grand Coastal Hotel is placing paramount importance on the security of its guests during the Cricket World Cup.

An official tour guide containing a wealth of information will be available to the large number of visitors who are expected to flock these shores starting next week for Cricket World Cup.

The government has discussed with the German State Agency (KFW) the establishment of a protected areas system during a KFW mission here, according to Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon.

Regional cellular phone giant Digicel hosted a cocktail event on Wednesday night to introduce its local sponsor assets for the year.

A ten-year-old boy was killed after he was struck by a minibus on the Limlair Public Road, at Corentyne.

Recently I was invited to be associated with the official plans to recognize or co-ordinate the various events to observe the bicentenary of the 1807 abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Trade in captive Africans.

Q: I just need to go through (transit) the U.S. to get to another country.