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The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) today announced that the company’s kiosk in the Giftland Mall has started solely cashless bill payments at the location following a gunpoint robbery.

The Ministry of the Presidency today said that the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will, at midnight on Saturday, February 22, 2020, conduct a fireworks display in the vicinity of the Stabroek Square in observance of Guyana’s 50th Republic Anniversary.

The April 2018 piracy attack off of Suriname which claimed the lives of at least 12 Guyanese was a well-organised operation as a result of a turf war over fishing grounds.

As voting by the ranks of the disciplined services proceeds, all stakeholders have expressed satisfaction with the process so far.

According to the Department of Public Information (DPI), President David Granger this morning commended the “smooth voting process” by the disciplined services who are casting their ballots for the upcoming General and Regional Elections today.

Voting by the Joint Services began this morning ahead of the March 2nd general elections.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Leg-spinner Poonam Yadav bamboozled Australia as India opened the seventh edition of the Women’s Twenty20 World Cup with a stunning upset of the reigning champions and tournament hosts by 17 runs at Sydney Showground today.

DAEGU, South Korea,  (Reuters) – The malls and restaurants in Daegu were empty and streets eerily quiet today after the number of cases of coronavirus in South Korea doubled overnight to 204, almost all of them in and around the fourth largest city.

(Trinidad Express) Terri Lyons is the 2020 National Calypso Monarch, having dethroned defending monarch, Ronaldo London who placed 12th.

(Trinidad Express) The criminals waited until late, until a doubles vending couple had sold most of their food, before walking in to take their money.

A thirty-four-year-old Cuban immigrant was killed minutes to seven this morning in what was believed to be an attempted robbery on Middle Street while on his way to work.

The Carter Center today said that electoral preparations  are on track but it called on GECOM to ensure that vote tabulation procedures for the March 2 General Elections are made clear to all stakeholders.

Former Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur is on the Commonwealth’s observer mission for the March 2 general elections.

MASERU,  (Reuters) – Lesotho’s Prime Minister Thomas Thabane is to be charged with the murder of his former wife, the deputy police commissioner said today.

LISBON,  (Reuters) – Angolan billionaire former first daughter Isabel dos Santos said today her companies in Portugal, where prosecutors seized her bank accounts last week, still owed local banks 180 million euros ($195 million) after repaying the bulk of the loans.

ExxonMobil today said that since 2015 it has spent $45.7b with local vendors and it currently has around 1900 Guyanese in its employ.

Following an intelligence-led operation a team of police ranks on February 13, 2020 at about 21:20h intercepted a motorcar on the No.

The Ministry of Education today said that all  public schools will be closed on March 2nd to facilitate the smooth operations of general and regional elections.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – Malaysia has never ruled out the possibility that missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 could have been downed by a suicidal pilot, the country’s former prime minister Najib Razak said today.

Restating its determination to capture enough seats in Parliament to prevent any party from holding a majority, A New and United Guyana today launched its manifesto for the March 2 general elections which includes a promise that within five years no child should leave the education system without a marketable qualification or skill.