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The sugar union GAWU this evening voiced its disgust over the beleaguered US$100M new Skeldon sugar factory.

The Government Information Agency’s website at www.gina.gov.gy has been down for the last three days after being hacked, according to a source.

(Go Jamaica) The body of reggae artiste Gregory Isaacs is to be flown back to Jamaica tomorrow.

Three families, comprising around 15 persons, were left without shelter this afternoon after a fire suspected to be of electrical origin ravaged their Bent Street, Werk-en-Rust home.

A gun was this afternoon found buried behind the washroom at St.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The co-chairmen of a  presidential panel to cut the U.S.

The woman accused of clubbing her reputed husband to death at Eclipse Falls, North West District on Friday last, following a reported argument over money for their three children was yesterday remanded to prison.

An arrest warrant was today issued for murder accused Carolan Lynch.

Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon today announced that 50 secondary schools countrywide are to have “fully equipped and fully secured” computer laboratories by year end.

Shoreham Resources Ltd of Canada today announced that it has contracted Ground Structures Engineering Consultants Inc.to

(Trinidad Express) The firing of talk show host Fazeer Mohammed has angered the Muslim community, forcing them to break their silence over what they claimed were months of discrimination against them by the People’s Partnership Government.

(Go Jamaica) Jamaican dancehall superstars Adijah Palmer otherwise called Vybz Kartel and David Brooks otherwise called Movado have been listed as persons of interest by the St.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama  said yesterday much more needs to be done to repair frayed  U.S.

The body of a 14-year-old girl was sexually violated after her tomb was broken into during Monday night and early yesterday morning.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A cholera epidemic that  has killed nearly 600 people in Haiti has gained a foothold  in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince and is expected to spread  widely and quickly in the sprawling city of 3 million people,  health authorities said today.

The reigning World Kickboxing Association’s middleweight champion is a US citizen of Guyanese parentage.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Darren Sammy has vowed to restore  pride and passion in West Indies cricket after replacing Chris  Gayle as skipper.

The United States is continuing to deny a visa to RUSAL boss Oleg Deripaska despite repeated request by Russia for an explanation and the enlisting of a US firm to help with the application.

Several cane-cutters at Enmore have downed tools to protest the weekly sugar target at the East Coast estate among other issues, but the sugar corporation has not agreed to negotiations.

A sixteen-year-old boy was today charged with murder in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.