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The Ministry of Public Health is monitoring the condition of Thelma Robeiro, the Rupununi woman who was left in a vegetative state following a surgery for gallstones at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) earlier this year.

Despite the appearance of journalist Travis Chase and HGPTV station manager Nyjel Fraser in a city court to testify in the trial of self-confessed drug trafficker Barry Dataram the prosecution now faces the task of obtaining Chase’s written statement.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – New York City police searched yesterday for a gunman who killed a Muslim cleric and his associate as they left prayers at a mosque in the borough of Queens on Saturday, a crime that sowed fear and sadness in their budding Bangladeshi community.

MILWAUKEE, (Reuters) – A Milwaukee policeman whose fatal shooting of a suspect sparked overnight rioting in the U.S.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s ruling African National Congress wants the national budget “re-prioritised” to focus on tackling poverty, unemployment and inequality following local election defeats this month, the party said yesterday.

Workers attached to the Blairmont Sugar Estate on Friday participated in a picketing exercise, protesting what they said was the unfair dismissal of one of their colleagues.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – The U.S. drone strike that killed Islamic State’s commander for Afghanistan and Pakistan was the latest blow to the Middle East-led movement’s ambitions to expand into a region where the long-established Taliban remain the dominant Islamist force.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – New York police were investigating reports of gunshots fired inside a terminal at John F.

(Reuters) – A team from Bangladesh will meet officials of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – New York police were investigating reports of gunshots fired inside a terminal at John F.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Jamaica’s Usain Bolt won his third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the 100 metres with a time of 9.81 seconds on Sunday.

The police say that they conducted a drug eradication exercise at Twenty Miles, Ituni, Upper Demerara during which over fifteen acres of cultivated cannabis was destroyed.

The police say that investigations are being conducted into a fatal accident which occurred at about 22:20h last night on the Ann’s Grove Public Road, ECD, that resulted in the death of John Forde, 27yrs, of 17 Supply, Mahaica, ECD.

(Trinidad Express) Insurance company Colfire has come under fire after one of its employees posted a warning letter he received from the company, chiding him for his “unprofessional” hairstyle.

Permanent Secretary (PS) of the Ministry of the Presidency Omar Shariff yesterday denied any involvement in the theft or embezzlement of public funds and charged that the distorted information appearing in the media is evidence of a campaign to stain his character.

Photos by Joanna Dhanraj This village is the third of the same name that the World Beyond Georgetown has visited.

A special investigation into the financial operations and functioning of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) over the period January 2012 to May 2015 blamed the hospital’s management for not tackling minor deficiencies which resulted in millions in losses.

Two families in Berbice are now in mourning following two suicide deaths in the county on Friday.

Two businessmen have filed a $1 million lawsuit against China Harbour Engineering, the firm currently responsible for the Cheddi Jagan International Airport expansion project, after saying the company’s workers removed more than a dozen truckloads of loam from land they have leased without permission.

With a total of 245 workplace accidents already recorded for the year, the Ministry of Social Protection’s Department of Labour will be working with select employers to improve workplace conditions and reduce the number of both fatal and non-fatal accidents.