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The death toll in Friday afternoon’s smash-up between a sand-laden truck and a Mahdia-bound minibus has risen to four. Six persons, including a two-year old infant, were rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital. The truck driver is said to be unconscious. Those who perished are 42-year old Felix Culbert “Bertie” Marks of Mahdia and Victoria Road, Plaisance,  Delroy Evans and ...

Guyana and Venezuela Thursday night agreed that they would within four months begin groundwork for the start of negotiations for the delimitation of their maritime boundary, in the wake of last week’s arrest of a seismic research ship by the Venezuelan navy. Foreign Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett said that during the six-hour meeting in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad with her delegation and one ...

“Upset and outraged” that many employers are allegedly refusing to pay their workers the minimum wage, the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) planned to take them to the government. “From certain security services to liquor restaurants FITUG will forward complaints to the Ministry of Labour and expects swift prosecution of these rabid violators,” the union body said ...

Guyana will next week stage a mock flood disaster codenamed “Operation Floodgate” to test the country’s emergency response system, government announced on Thursday. The simulation exercise would be conducted by the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) from October 21 to 25 in Regions 4, 5, 6 and 9. National Disaster Response Coordinator, Dr. Roger Luncheon said the exercise is aimed at ...

Guyana needs to dispense more cash into HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria because international funds are drying up to fight those diseases, a senior United Nations official said here on Thursday. While the country is on track to achieving the UN-set Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Number 6, Country Coordinator for UNAIDS, Roberto Campos said the country needed to provide 50 percent ...

Guyana on Thursday launched its first secondary school Portuguese curriculum as part of the country’s push to deepen relations with neighbouring Brazil. “While language will never stop Guyana from enjoying good relations with anyone, surely our familiarity with the language of the people of Brazil will help us to bolster that friendship,” said Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand The language ...

(TOPEKA CAPITAL JOURNAL).-Police have arrested the suspect in a shooting on October 10, in west Topeka, Kansas, United States that injured a woman identified only as the man’s wife. Shiek Azeez, 37, of Guyana, was booked into the Shawnee County Jail in connection with attempted second-degree murder. Bond has been set at $500,000 cash or professional surety. His next court ...

The Director of Guyana’s Child Care and Protection Agency (CCPA), Ann Greene on Wednesday said the five-day old baby was rescued from a cash-strapped American woman in the “nick of time” or he would have died. “We really needed to rescue the baby. If we had left the baby with her, the baby would have died,” Greene told Demerara Waves ...

Guyana on Tuesday expressed its “deep concern” about the Dominican Republic’s (DR) refusal to grant nationality status to citizens born to illegal Haitian migrants. That decision contained in a recent “indiscriminate ruling” of the DR’s Constitutional Court which, according to the Foreign Ministry here, could result in a loss of nationality of an estimated 201,000 citizens of the Spanish-speaking republic ...

One Brazilian and two Guyanese narrowly escaped death Tuesday evening when a truck slammed into a car at Port Kaituma, North West District. Those seriously injured are Andy Williams,25,  his reputed wife 41-year old Juliet Seecharran and a Brazilian woman, 21-year old Rayana Boguevia. The Brazilian and her husband were on a motorcycle when they were hit by the car ...