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In Photo: Chandrakala Ramsammy, Principal Education Officer (Middle), Headteacher Tuckville Primary Barbara Semple(Right). Background: Special invities, teachers and parents
In Photo: Chandrakala Ramsammy, Principal Education Officer (Middle), Headteacher Tuckville Primary Barbara Semple(Right). Background: Special invities, teachers and parents

Tucville Primary launches reading room

-part of school improvement plan The Tucville Primary school on Thursday launched its new reading room as part of its five-year School Improvement Plan (SIP), in an impressive ceremony that stressed the importance of reading.

Uruguay minister, tarnished by 2 scandals, fired

MONTEVIDEO, (Reuters) – Uruguay’s interior minister  was sacked yesterday after television channels showed her  making vulgar comments about the opposition and months after  she drew criticism for a controversial photograph of herself on  the Facebook social networking Internet site.

Obama has blunt message for Arabs and Jews

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama  had a blunt, “tough-love” message for Arabs and Israelis that  thrust him deeper into Middle East peacemaking — a tangled web  that bedeviled his predecessors and carries risks for him.

Rohan Shastri Rambarran

Six Guyanese guilty in huge Bajan drug bust

-Narcotics had been secreted in logs (Barbados Nation) Six Guyanese who have been on a prolonged trial in Barbados on a charge of smuggling ganja and cocaine into that country in 2005 were yesterday found guilty and will be sentenced on June 15.

So what about alleged Roger Khan/gov’t links?

…Luncheon says ‘comprehensive disclosure’ needed A “comprehensive response” to the alleged links between government and jailed Guyanese drug kingpin Roger Khan depends on “comprehensive disclosure,” according to Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon.

New blood donation record set in Guyana

A single blood drive two Saturdays ago netted 240 units to set a new record in Guyana and the English-speaking Caribbean  when  Swami Aksharananda of Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara  spearheaded the activity.

Sugar down 6,000 tonnes in first crop

– annual target still doable if plan stuck to, Gopaul says There was a shortfall in sugar production by some 6,000 tonnes during the first crop which recorded just over 83,000 tonnes, largely as a result of poor weather conditions, Chairman of the Guyana Sugar Corporation board Dr Nanda Gopaul said yesterday.

Girl severely beaten by father

-child protection unit steps in Welfare officers attached to the Child Protection Unit of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security (MHSS) yesterday met with a 15-year- old girl who was severely beaten by her father at the family’s East Coast Demerara home on Wednesday.

Dr Roger Luncheon

Two more local gov’t bills tabled

-administration would be able to pick all members of key commission Following criticism by the opposition, the government yesterday tabled two more bills in Parliament for local government reforms and the one catering for the establishment of the local government commission would enable the PPP/C administration to pick all six members.

Ashnie Williams

Girl in Fyrish double fatality had been on pre-birthday walk

Man was killed while speaking to friend Ashnie Williams was being taken for a pre-birthday walk while Salim Mohamed was standing on the roadway speaking to a friend who was in a parked motor car when both of them died on the Kilcoy Public Road, Corentyne after a speeding car crashed on Saturday afternoon.

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