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Nurses, medics and other health workers from around the country are currently pooling their knowledge and resources while reviewing the strengths and weaknesses of the Maternal and Child Health programme.

The Government of Guyana, in keeping with its promise to the Queenstown Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) group, gave the organization a $500,000 subvention for this year.

The Mothers’ Union, a service organisation which advocates Christianity in marriage and family life, on Monday hosted its annual general meeting (AGM) at the Hotel Tower.

The ISA Islamic School commemorated five years of scholarship last week with an in-house programme that highlighted its achievements and challenges last Thursday.

The Ministry of Education is reviewing education management in Guyana, Minister Shaik Baksh said, announcing his intention to change the dynamics within the central ministry and redefine the role of the Chief Education Officer.

A Special Constable (SC) was yesterday sentenced to five years in prison and fined $30,000 for aiding and abetting the trafficking of three kilogrammes 236.5 grammes of cocaine back in July 2005.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) says it is unacceptable that Presid-ent Bharrat Jagdeo has taken a position recently that he is in no hurry to appoint a Commissioner of Police.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is calling on the Private Sector Commis-sion (PSC) to condemn the indiscriminate pricing by some businesses, a GRA press release said.

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Lakeram McKenzie’s overseas-based relatives are offering a reward for information leading to the apprehension of persons involved in his murder in December during a robbery, though the case has not progressed since the advertisement was published.

A 28-year-old University of Guyana (UG) student accused of raping a nine-year-old girl last year was released on bail when he appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Roger Khan’s US lawyer Robert Simels on Monday wrote to New York Judge, Dora Irizarry complaining about the drug accused businessman’s transfer from the Nassau County jail to the Special Housing Unit (SHU), a cell designated specifically for terrorists at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre (MCC) located in Manhattan, New York.

The Providence Stadium has been given the thumbs up to host the Cricket World Cup 2007 Super Eight matches by the International Cricket Council/Cricket World Cup (CWC) Inspection team, but there are still some minor works to be completed to make the Providence facility 100 percent ready for the gala event.

The tragic incident in which two Guyanese women – Ashrani Hardat, whose lifeless body was found floating in the Corentyne River and Cheryl Peters, whose body is still missing – died after the boat in which they were travelling from Guyana to Suriname capsized in the Corentyne River, is not just another river mishap.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the burning to death of a woman last year commenced yesterday at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Fazil Azeez.

A Rosignol greens vendor is battling for his life at the Georgetown Public Hospital after bandits shot him five times around his neck and shoulder yesterday morning in Black Bush Polder (BBP).

Custom officers at Coventry Airport, England on Monday discovered 30,000 pounds sterling worth of cocaine hidden inside more than 140 prunes that had arrived from Guyana.

A seven-year-old girl and her six-year-old brother were yesterday forced to watch their mother being stabbed more than nine times about the body and up to press time the police were seeking the woman’s reputed husband in connection with the murder.

Dear Editor, Having a passion for politics and things political is one thing.

Dear Editor, An article by Vishnu Bisram published on Thursday,February 1, 2007 headlined “Guyanese in Richmond Hill charge police with profiling abuse” contained complaints by Guy-anese living there.