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Child sex felon Dr Vishwamintra Persaud has been fired from his position at the Georgetown Hospital, Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy said today in a press release.

A 29-year-old Diamond Housing Scheme man was brutally stabbed to death at Ruimzeight, West Coast Demerara by a teenager during an early morning row today.

Guyana is donating $20M each to St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines to help in infrastructure restoration in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Thomas which struck last month.

QUITO, (Reuters) – An Ecuadorean government official  has invited the founder of the WikiLeaks whistleblower website  to live and lecture in the country, days after the site caused  an international uproar by releasing additional sensitive U.S. 

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. government said it  would tighten security after WikiLeaks released more than  250,000 U.S.

Wikileaks.org which has created an uproar in the US over the release of insider accounts of the war in Afghanistan and now the release of a vast  amount of  US diplomatic cables says 380 of them pertain to Guyana.

(Jamaica Observer) MANDEVILLE, Manchester — The West Indies Union (WIU) Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is no more.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s blazing run to   the final of the Asian Games this month has given them a taste   of success and now they are gunning for the cricket big time.

Statement by the OAS-CARICOM Joint Electoral Observation Mission on the Presidential and Legislative Elections of 28 November 2010 Introduction Present in Haiti since August 2010, the OAS-CARICOM Joint Election Observation Mission was able to monitor the administrative, technical and logistical preparations for both the postponed legislative elections and the presidential elections.

Police ranks today stopped and searched a motor car at Uitvlugt, WCD, during which 21 kilograms 488 grams of cocaine were found.

The Ministry of Public of Public Works and Communication – Works Services Group/Sea Defence Division today advised the public to take all necessary precautions during the spring tide period of December 2, 2010 –December 9, 2010.

Winston Murray’s funeral

I am a Guyanese living in the US for 35 years now and am trying to locate Selene Joseph, formerly of Demerara Tobacco Co.

By Colin Rickards Colin Rickards is an author, journalist, broadcaster and Caribbeanist with long connections to Guyana and its authors.

Guyanese entrepreneur, author, real estate developer and the founder of the famed Henry House Catering and Banquet Hall in Brooklyn, Norman Henry who died from heart failure at his Brooklyn residence is to be laid to rest today, according to the Imagenewsletter.

Heartfelt congratulations are extended to Khadine Alecia Nurse who was called to the Bar of UK and Wales through the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, England.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – The International Cricket   Council (ICC) hopes to finalise plans for their new test and   one-day international tournaments in their chief executives’   committee meeting in Dubai tomorrow.

PARIS, (Reuters) – U.S. diplomatic cables released by  online whistle-blower Wikileaks include remarks from an Iran  source in 2009 saying Supreme Leader has  terminal cancer, French daily Le Monde reported.

BRISBANE, (Reuters) – Australia and England drew   the first Ashes test today but the tourists will claim a   moral victory after Alastair Cook dominated the last two days   with an unbeaten double century to rescue a match that had   looked lost.

TEHRAN, (Reuters) – Two car bomb blasts killed one  Iranian nuclear scientist and wounded another in Tehran today, Iran’s al Alam Arabic language television reported.