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Eleven registered nurses of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) are now qualified as the Post-Anaesthetic Care (PACU) nurses following their graduation from a training programme.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – “I know Aussies are not known for leaving the party at the right time but (after) 17 years, it’s time to leave the party,” Hugh Jackman quipped as he discussed his last time playing X-Men superhero Wolverine in this year’s gritty action hit “Logan.”

Police yesterday arrested three male suspects who on  Wednesday allegedly robbed a pastor a sum of cash, on Church Street, Georgetown, shortly after he left a city bank.

Under pressure from within and without the party over what has been seen as capitulation to APNU on key issues, the Alliance For Change today said in a statement that it was disturbed that it could not be represented on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

The Ministry of Education today said it has handed over the matter of allegations against Bishops’ High School teacher Coen Jackson to the police and said it has also been determined that the headmistress of the school be reprimanded over her conduct in the matter.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – The Dutch Cabinet called today for the caretaker prime minister of the Caribbean island nation of St.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Militants killed 235 people at a mosque in Egypt’s north Sinai region today, detonating a bomb and shooting at fleeing worshippers and ambulances, state media and witnesses said.

President David Granger will this midday swear-in longstanding Working People’s Alliance (WPA) activist Desmond Trotman as the new Commissioner of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s Supreme Court increased Oscar Pistorius’ murder sentence today to 13 years and five months after the state argued his original sentence of six years for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was “shockingly lenient”.

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, last evening, announced that the Government of Guyana has received more than 70 unsolicited Expressions of Interest from investors, who are interested in turning around the ailing sugar industry.

BRISBANE,  (Reuters) – Australia fought back with two late wickets to restrict England to 196 for four and leave the Ashes series-opener delicately poised on Thursday after the tourists’ unheralded batsmen threatened to dominate an intriguing first day.

More leaked emails from Alliance for Change (AFC) executives show that several key figures did not agree with President David Granger’s unilateral selection of Justice James Patterson as the Guyana Elections Commission Chairman on October 19.

THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – A U.N. tribunal today convicted former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic of genocide and crimes against humanity for orchestrating massacres and ethnic cleansing during Bosnia’s war and sentenced him to life in prison.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Robert Mugabe resigned as Zimbabwe’s president on Tuesday a week after the army and his former political allies moved against him, ending four decades of rule by a man who turned from independence hero to archetypal African strongman.

Travis Cleveland c/d ‘Spin and Kill’, 31 years , unemployed of 337 South Sophia has been charged with murder of Jamal Munroe which occurred on November 03, 2017 at Black and White Bridge, ‘C’ Field, Sophia, ECD, the police say.

YANGON/NAYPYITAW, (Reuters) – Members of the U.S. Congress said today operations carried out against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar had “all the hallmarks” of ethnic cleansing, while the country’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi expressed doubts about allegations of rights abuses.

The AFC National Executive Committee over the weekend endorsed the controversial choice of Justice James Patterson as Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission.

Commissioner of the Guyana Elections Commission, Sandra Jones has died. Jones became a member of GECOM in 2012 after the death of Deputy Mayor of Georgetown Robert Williams.

(Reuters) – Charles Manson, the wild-eyed cult leader who orchestrated a string of gruesome killings in Southern California by his “family” of young followers, shattering the peace-and-love ethos of the late 1960s, died on Sunday, prison officials said.

TAROUBA, Trinidad,  CMC – Left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul snatched three of the four remaining wickets to end with five in the innings and nine in the match, as Guyana Jaguars routed Trinidad and Tobago Red Force by an innings and 217 runs in their fourth round match here today.