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The Commissioners of the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry paid a visit to the Attorney General, Basil Williams, at the Attorney General’s Chambers today,a release from the Attorney General’s Chambers said.

GENEVA/LONDON, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization has declared the mosquito-borne Zika virus to be an international public health emergency due to its link to thousands of suspected cases of birth defects in Brazil.

Residents of Fort Island, Essequibo River, Region Three yesterday complained about their health centre during a visit by Minister of Public Health Dr.

An initial examination of the forensic audits into state-owed entities have identified “many instances” where the laws governing the entities and their operations were “violated with impunity,” Minister of Finance Winston Jordan says but the opposition has again challenged government to bring the evidence.

-Independents could shake up process With historic local government elections in the air, the Guyana Elections Commis-sion (Gecom) has revealed that the Disciplined Forces will vote on March 8th but the list of candidates for the districts has not been officially released as yet.

A mother of two has died after she was struck down while crossing the road to take a bus from her workplace on Saturday night.

Commuters, frustrated about the hassle to cross the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) during the early morning rush-hour traffic, are asking for a solution to ease the situation.

So far, there has only been one case of the Zika virus in Guyana, Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton says.

As part of its efforts to “foster greener, more sustainable mining”, the Government of Guyana, through the Ministry of Natural Resources will soon be establishing a compliance unit and crafting a National Action Plan aimed at minimising and, as far as possible, eliminating the use of mercury in mining operations.

With $20.3 billion allocated to the agriculture sector in this year’s national budget, among the ministry’s plans are the development of a milk pasteurisation plant, an agriculture station for water harvesting in Region Nine and a strategy which focuses on “five F’s.”

In what was described as a historic occasion, the Alliance for Change (AFC) on Saturday formally opened its headquarters at Railway Line, Kitty, naming it the Centre for Change in memory of one of its founders, Sheila Holder who died in 2011.

Had the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) begun to pump water from the Pomeroon River into the Tapakuma Conservancy months ago, the farmers along the river would have suffered from salt water intrusion, NDIA head Frederick Flatts says.

During Saturday, police ranks conducted a drug eradication operation in the Onderneeming Backdam, Essequibo Coast, during which a two-acre size field with cannabis sativa (marijuana) plants under cultivation was found and destroyed.

Glenfield Dennison, the Belizean law student who was shot twice two Thursdays ago, has improved but remains hospitalised at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

A 44-year-old Guyanese woman has been arrested in Ireland on suspicion of swallowing more than 1.7 kilogrammes of cocaine worth about €120,000.

President David Granger has issued a call for citizens to redouble their efforts against what he described as the “four horsemen” that are hindering the country’s development: crime, disease, ignorance and poverty.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited registered an increase in after-tax profit of $746m for the quarter ended December 31, 2015, $73m higher when compared to the same quarter in 2014.

Following the resignation of its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Molly Hassan on January 12, state broadcaster National Communications Network (NCN) has advertised the position and two other senior posts, In an advertisement in today’s Sunday Chronicle, NCN said it wished to fill the three vacancies urgently.

Region Nine is bracing itself for food shortages as the persistent dry weather is depleting what is left of the region’s usable water sources, according to Region Nine’s Regional Executive Officer (REO) Carl Parker.