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The Region Eight (Potaro/Siparuni) administration today said that a government building was ravaged by fire and twelve persons from four families are now homeless.

The St George’s Cathedral this afternoon announced the launching of its restoration fund and said that the total amount required to complete the renovation is US$2.5M ($500M).

BUJUMBURA, (Reuters) – Burundian riot police today forcibly dispersed crowds protesting against the president seeking a third term, a decision critics said is unconstitutional and could rekindle turmoil after a decade of calm in the East African state.

Prime Ministerial candidate Moses Nagamootoo speaking at the opposition alliance’s rally at Vreed-en-Hoop last evening.

The gathering at APNU+AFC’s rally last evening at Vreed-en-Hoop.

Attorney at law and former Magistrate Fazil Azeez was today shot by a lone gunman at Eccles on the East Bank.

In a joint statement, Caricom and the West Indies Cricket Board today said that they had agreed to establish a panel to review the governance structure of the board.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) today called in the Guyana Police Force to investigate the presence of a strange substance found in rations delivered to its stores.

APNU+AFC today accepted it had made an error in reporting on Thursday that it had been endorsed by the Muslim group ACIC.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Olympic gold medalist and reality TV star Bruce Jenner said on Friday that he identifies as a woman, becoming the most high-profile American to come out as transgender.

KATHMANDU, (Reuters) – A powerful earthquake struck Nepal and sent tremors through northern India today, killing hundreds of people, toppling a 19th-century tower in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu and triggering a fatal avalanche on Mount Everest.

Despite the burgeoning condemnation which has also seen Western missions here voicing their revulsion, the ruling PPP today would only say that Health Minister Dr Bheri Ramsaran’s remarks to rights activist Sherlina Nageer on Monday “appear unwarranted” and that the incident had been “clearly blown out of proportion”.

Canada today joined the chorus of critics of Health Minister Dr Bheri Ramsaran’s verbal assault on rights activist Sherlina Nageer.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Opener Kraigg Brathwaite fashioned an outstanding, unbeaten hundred that headlined strong West Indies resistance, shackled England’s zeal and set up a riveting final day of the second Test on Saturday.

At about 1350h. today, the police say that rice farmer Fyusa Hussain, 63 years, of Good Hope, ECD, had just parked his motor vehicle at Water Street, Georgetown, when he was confronted by two men, one of whom was armed with a firearm.

GINA this afternoon said that President Donald Ramotar has strongly reprimanded the Minister of Health Dr.

The women’s arm of the PPP, the WPO today said that it was “extremely disappointed” at the utterances by Health Minister Dr Bheri Ramsaran against rights activist Sherlina Nageer.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Embattled West Indies off-spinner Sunil Narine has been reported yet again for having a suspected illegal bowling action, further tossing the limited overs superstar’s career into deeper turmoil.

APNU+AFC last night said that is concerned about the dissemination of an incomplete and unofficial document purporting to be the coalition’s official manifesto.

APNU+AFC today flayed the government over the verbal abuse of rights activist Sherlina Nageer by Health Minister Dr Bheri Ramsaran on Monday and said that the PPP/C was providing reasons to the public to vote them out of office.