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In the wake of the fire that claimed the lives of 17 prisoners at the Camp Street jail on March 3, the government has named visiting committees for all the penitentiaries.

The range of services offered at the New Amsterdam Hospital has been increased over the years however, the staffing structure has remained mostly the same for 20 years and this is affecting the quality of care the hospital can provide, GINA reported.

City Hall has instituted a pilot programme to determine whether citizens would adhere to responsible solid waste disposal.

The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) is ready to negotiate for salary increases its President Mark Lyte said after he was reelected for another term on Saturday.

In the wake of calls for Social Protection Minister Volda Lawrence to be relieved of her portfolio over her comments on a coalition candidate accused of child molestation, President David Granger said he would await an explanation on the controversial nomination before a decision on the way forward.

Michael April, the vendor who was stabbed to his neck three days ago, remains a patient in a serious condition at a city hospital; he is unable to move the upper left side of his body and his family is hoping that this is temporary.

A man who was arrested last Wednesday in connection with the murder of bus driver, Alvin Lorrimer remains in custody and the police are pursuing a second suspect who is a known character.

The police will today be seeking legal advice in relation to the laying of charges against the police constable and four other men who were found in possession of an unlicensed firearm on Saturday.

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan has decided to launch a paramilitary crackdown on Islamist militants in Punjab, the country’s richest and most populous province, after an Easter Day bombing killed 70 people in the provincial capital Lahore, officials said yesterday.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s largest party will decide today to break away from President Dilma Rousseff’s floundering coalition, party leaders said, sharply raising the odds she will be impeached amid a corruption scandal.

President David Granger said yesterday that the celebration of Phagwah and Easter demonstrate that Guyanese are moving towards national unity.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A man with a gun walked into the underground US Capitol Visitor Center yesterday and was shot and wounded by police after he pointed the weapon at officers, police said.

YONAGUNI, Japan (Reuters) – Japan yesterday switched on a radar station in the East China Sea, giving it a permanent intelligence gathering post close to Taiwan and a group of islands disputed by Japan and China, drawing an angry response from Beijing.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Retired leader Fidel Castro accused US President Barack Obama of sweet-talking the Cuban people during his visit to the island last week and ignoring the accomplishments of Communist rule, in an opinion piece carried by all state-run media yesterday.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations said yesterday it had received new allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation against UN peacekeepers from Morocco and Burundi in Central African Republic, including one that involved a 14-year-old girl.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A man suspected of laundering money for jailed drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was detained in southwestern Mexico, and faces extradition to the United States, Mexican authorities said on Sunday.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Manneken Pis, the cherubic little statue insouciantly relieving himself in the heart of Brussels, has become a cheeky symbol of Belgian resistance to terror in the week since suicide bombers struck the capital.

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The Alliance for Change (AFC) plans to register its concern with A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) over the “unfair” allocation of seats in Georgetown and other parts of the country following the March 18 Local Government Elections (LGE).

The results of the recently held local government elections should give no political comfort to the political parties, according to former Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran who says that rigid ethnic voting patterns remain entrenched.