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Fire early Tuesday morning destroyed the Medex Building, Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara. The building was the administrative centre for several departments including Health Sciences Education, Veterinary Public Health, Food Policy and Environmental Health. Fire officials said they received a call from motorists about 3 AM that there was a fire at the huge wooden building. The security guard said he ...

St. Lucia has lifted the quarantine from the cargo vessel, MV Lady Zai, aboard which a Guyanese sailor died and another one was sickened. The names of the dead and sick have not been released. Sources said the sailor died from bronchial pneumonia. Guyana’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) said the sailor has been discharged from a St. Lucian hospital. “They are ...

Nine persons were up to late Monday being treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital for injuries they sustained after the pickup they were travelling in toppled. Police said the Phagwah revellers, who were in the vehicle, were believed to be under the influence of alcohol. Investigators said the vehicle toppled several times while negotiating the Houston bypass. An eyewitness said ...

(CBC CANADA).-Police believe carbon monoxide caused the deaths of three members of the same Brampton, Ont., family early Monday when propane heaters were brought into the home after the furnace stopped working in frigid conditions. “It’s just a tragedy … a terrible situation,” Peel Regional Police Const. Fiona Thivierge told reporters Monday. Just before 2 a.m. Monday, emergency services were ...

The Insurance Association of Guyana (IAG), warning that flood damage and loss could soon become uninsurable, signalled that the conditions for flood-related insurance would soon change and remain in force until the drainage situation improves. “The insurance industry will shortly inform policyholders of the new structure of underwriting measures applicable to flood cover. These measures will impact businesses as well ...

Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon- long considered one of the few remaining modest and humble members of the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP)- has built a house at ‘Pradoville 2’. Officially known as Sparendaam, the area is the site of an upscale housing area for several current and former senior government officials including Former President, Bharrat Jagdeo. Luncheon, ...

President Donald Ramotar on Sunday reacted sharply to A Partnership for National Unity’s (APNU) insistence that a civilian oversight body must be established to appoint top officials of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and oversee enforcement of the financial crimes law. “If this is supposed to be a legislation to be similar to the rest of the Caribbean and to ...

More than 200 Cooperative Societies have been struck off the register and blocked from transacting business in a move aimed at cleaning up the list for the first time in 10 years, Labour Minister Dr. Nankishore Gopaul said Sunday. “We find that a number of those that have been listed there have not been in compliance for the last decade ...

A customs broker was killed early Sunday morning when the car he was driving slammed into a utility pole on Mandela Avenue in the vicinity of Continental Group of Companies. The accident occurred about 4:30 AM. He has been identified as 21-year Adrian Hossain of 123 Meadow Brook Gardens, Georgetown. He was the lone occupant of the car bearing licence ...

Residents of Port Kaituma are angry about the police’s apparent slow response to a report by a teenage girl that her parents had been quarrelling and her father had threatened burn down the house. Businessman, Lenus La Cruz in the end carried through with his threat, dousing the house with gasoline and setting it alight with his wife and four ...