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A mother is now in police custody after her 18-month-old baby who was reportedly left alone at home with his 14-year-old aunt fell to his death from stairs at the family’s Section ‘A’ Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara home late yesterday.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) is appealing to the public to “demonstrate good sense at Easter time” and to refrain from flying kites near its power distribution networks and high voltage lines.

The Linden woman who is in urgent need of surgery as she is suffering from a rare disease, Cushing’s syndrome, is yet to raise the US$12,000 needed for the surgery in Trinidad.

Retailers of official Cricket World Cup (CWC) items are reporting moderate sales but remain confident that business will increase as tourists begin arriving for the Super Eight matches here.

Fourteen-year-old Rosetta Garnett who was hit by a speeding route 42 minibus at the weekend has undergone emergency surgery and is still in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to get involved in the enhancement of the country as that role falls within the ambit of the agency.

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) yesterday launched a promotion which will see float valves being installed in 500 customers’ water tanks.

A man who reportedly attempted to rob a businessman of his day’s sales last evening was instead met with opposition and is now nursing a stab wound to his back at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

A sum of roughly $12M from the Guyana Lotteries Company was deposited in the Consolidated Fund in December.

The installation of poles for the modern traffic lights at critical junctions around the city is expected to begin today, the Government Information Agency (GINA) yesterday quoted Ministry of Public Works Traffic Safety Engineer Kadri Paris as saying.

A new medical training centre is being mulled for the former New Amsterdam Hospital, which has been vacant for the last two years.

The Rotaract Club of Georgetown is celebrating world Rotaract Week with an entrepreneurial project, an international fair and a roster of other activities.

Rawle Greene recorded his fastest hand-timed sprint in Guyana in a dominant performance in the men’s 100m event at the Enmore ground on Sunday when the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) staged the combined national junior and senior championships.

Guyana’s senior opening batsman Royston Crandon was showered with prizes on Sunday after he was named Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) Cri-cketer-of-the-Year at the club’s 17th annual awards ceremony.

In agreeing with President Jagdeo’s assessment of the 19th Summit of the Rio Group as a “success” and in offering congratulations to the President and his team, in our most recent editorial on the Summit, we were of necessity looking at the big picture.

Defence counsel representing Swiss House boss and his beauty queen wife yesterday objected to two additional statements which the prosecution intended to serve.

Five men were yesterday charged with being involved in the recent armed attack on homes at Black Bush Polder and were refused bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.

Dear Editor, The authorities at all levels, national government and municipality, ought to be commended for the effort that is currently being made to clean up the city and its environs and fix the roads.

Dear Editor, I share the Minister of Education’s concerns regarding indiscipline and violence in our schools but would urge some restraint with respect to the banning of cell phones in schools.

Dear Editor, My elderly uncle, who lives in Queenstown, was just told by the city council that he has to remove a few bricks he put on the parapet to prevent big trucks from destroying the grass.