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Popular hangout spot, The Gravity Lounge is still to reopen to the public six months on but it hosts private events.

The matter in which the Cheddi Jagan Research Committee Inc. (CJRCI) is contesting the revocation of the lease it holds to the Red House on High Street, has been adjourned to March 15.

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – Women protested around the world yesterday for equal rights and in the United States against President Donald Trump, with many Americans skipping work or boycotting stores to demand economic fairness on International Women’s Day.

A bus conductor, was yesterday sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment for robbing two Mashramani revellers during the parade.

Company Representatives from Design Revolution (DRev) Brilliance Phototherapy Units, Andrew and Laurie Skipper, are currently in Guyana conducting surveillance activities to determine the scope of future backing to the local health sector.

KABUL, (Reuters) – Gunmen dressed as medics attacked a hospital in the Afghan capital yesterday and battled security forces for hours, killing more than 30 people and wounding dozens in an assault claimed by Islamic State.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Com-merce Secretary Wilbur Ross said yesterday that substantial negotiations to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement likely will not get started until the latter part of this year and could take a year to complete.

Minister of Natural Re-sources, Raphael Trotman, on March 5, 2017 told a mining conference in Canada that Guyana remains under prospected and steps are being taken to make more data available on mineral rich areas.

SAN JOSE PINULA, Guatemala,  (Reuters) – A fire tore through a home for abused teenagers and children in Guatemala, killing at least 19 girls on Wednesday after some residents set mattresses ablaze following an overnight attempt to escape from the overcrowded center, police said.

During a roundtable held by the Women and Gender Equality Commission on Tuesday in the lead-up to International Women’s Day, attendees were reminded that the fight for gender parity is not one for women only, but for men as well, and that education of both genders is the key to eliminating the gap.

All private education institutions are to be regularised under the new Education Act.

BOSTON,  (Reuters) – A second Brazilian man has been charged with conspiring to launder money linked to a massive fraud out of the United States in a case that led to the discovery of $17 million in cash under a mattress in a Massachusetts apartment.

Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Professor Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, has appointed Keith Waithe as the Visiting Distinguished Artist-in-Residence in the Vice-Chancellery for the period, February 20 to April 8, 2017.

(Reuters) – The state of Hawaii can sue over President Donald Trump’s new executive order temporarily banning the entry of refugees and travelers from six Muslim-majority countries, a federal judge ruled yesterday.

CARACAS/HOUSTON/NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s state-run oil company, PDVSA, has spent at least a decade trying to build business ties and boost shipments to refineries in India, where crowds once welcomed the late socialist leader Hugo Chavez with cries of “Viva!”

Former Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee says that the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) will have to arrest him at his premises as while he is prepared to co-operate with any investigation he will not be visiting its Camp Road HQ.

Former president Bharrat Jagdeo, former Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon and former PPP/C minister Robert Persaud were among seven  persons who were arrested and questioned by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) yesterday as part of its criminal investigation of the sale of lands in the controversial ‘Pradoville 2’ housing scheme.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has sought approval for an emergency purchase of $605m in drugs from ANSA McAl and concerns have been raised in some quarters over the lack of tendering and the possibility that the best price might not have been obtained.

A security guard at the GuyGas Inc complex at Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara, shot and killed one of three men who were attempting to rob the business during the wee hours of yesterday morning.

Police in the North West District are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding a deadly fire at Morawhanna, which claimed the life of an elderly woman on Tuesday morning.