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A fire of unknown origin gutted the Shaheed Girls Orphanage at Oleander Gardens, on the East Coast of Demerara early yesterday morning, displacing 18 girls and causing millions of dollars in losses.

A security guard is currently in police custody after he fatally shot a young man, who allegedly attacked him with a knife at a Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) poultry farm in the wee hours of yesterday morning.

Almost a year after the contract was signed, the construction of the new head office for the Public Health Ministry is at a standstill despite an advance payment of $71.365 million, the 2017 Auditor General’s report states.

Attorney General Basil (AG) Williams SC yesterday called on the Guyana Bar Association to condemn comments directed at the judiciary by attorney Anil Nandlall following the recent ruling in the challenge to the appointment of the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

According to the latest Auditor General’s Report, 58% of the more than $34 million worth of overpayments discovered within the Ministries and Departments in 2017 were made by the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).

Auditor General Deodat Sharma has expressed concern at the low rate of implementation of recommendations made in his 2016 report on the public accounts and urged government to put measures in place to correct the situation.

With a preliminary study saying that a four-lane highway is most feasible, works on the road link between the East Coast and East Bank of Demerara are expected to begin in the final quarter of 2019, according to the Ministry of Public Infrastructure’s Technical Services Manager Nigel Erskine.

Food remains a need for Venezuelan immigrants in Mabaruma, Region One, as the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) has exhausted its resources.

Growing up on what she described as an ‘island’, there was little doubt that Stephanie Fraser would learn to swim, but becoming one of the best-known swimming coaches in Guyana and cementing her place in a male-dominated arena, happened literally by accident.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) is going to initiate proceedings to enable it to respond to the allegations made in an ongoing court action that claims its candidates fraudulently procured the names of persons listed as their backers for the upcoming Local Government Elections (LGE), party chairman Khemraj Ramjattan says.

“I was not prepared for it but I knew that something was wrong and then the doctor broke the news and I started to reach out to my aunts and other people.

Among the new contestants at the upcoming local government elections is James Hermanstein, who is running as an independent candidate on behalf of the South Liliendaal Progressive Development Group in Constituency 5 (Sophia/Liliendaal North & South/Pattensen/Turkeyen North & South/ Turkeyen Central & Sophia/Pattensen Central).

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) will decide on its presidential candidate for the 2020 polls after the upcoming local government elections, General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo says.

Vendors who have been ordered to temporarily move from the collapsing Stabroek Market wharf will be able to sign the relocation agreement with the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) this week and begin the construction of their stalls, acting Town Clerk Sharon Harry-Munroe says.

TECUN UMAN, Guatemala, (Reuters) – Hundreds of mostly Honduran migrants began the long trek home yesterday, some using free bus tickets from Central American authorities, while many more members of a stalled caravan remained in Guatemala at a tense border crossing with Mexico.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has declared that the flooding nightmare that has left thousands marooned is a “national disaster.”

A 76-year-old cancer survivor is currently hospitalised after she was allegedly struck down by a driver on Friday afternoon while returning home from a cancer awareness event.

An operating theatre at the Suddie Public Hospital, in Region Two, is now closer to reality as Cabinet recently noted the award of a $40.9 million contract for its construction.

ELKO, Nev./ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump joined European leaders yesterday in pushing Saudi Arabia for more answers about Jamal Khashoggi after Riyadh changed its story and acknowledged that the journalist died over two weeks ago at its consulate in Istanbul.

(Antigua Observer) The police are probing what appears to be a murder/suicide following the discovery of the bodies of two adults who had reportedly not been seen or heard from by relatives since Tuesday.