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A Senior Probation Officer in Region Ten wants to make the welfare of the elderly a social problem.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Fireworks lit up Singapore’s sky as crowds celebrated the city state’s 50th anniversary yesterday, an occasion of national pride the ruling party is expected to exploit by calling an election next month.

ABUJA, (Reuters) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered ministries to use only approved government bank accounts to make payments, the vice president’s office said on Sunday, part of a drive to improve transparency and clamp down on corruption.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Ruling party candidate Daniel Scioli was ahead in Argentina’s presidential primary yesterday with 36.6 percent, early results showed, with voters favoring the Buenos Aires governor’s policy of gradual change following eight years of leftist government.

President David Granger today reiterated his intention to see a motion passed in Parliament to appoint a Commission of Inquiry which would probe a large number of killings during the tenure of former President Bharrat Jagdeo between 2000 and 2008.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) wants to create a commercial entity to increase the board’s revenue intake.

Cabinet has given provisional approval for the continuation of the contentious Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project and Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson yesterday said it would not exceed its initial US$150M cost and completion is expected by the second quarter on 2017.

Story and photos by Jannelle Williams   As The World Beyond Georgetown made its way to the Berbice Bridge access road which intersects the village, 19-year-old Darren Stuart was seen plying his trade, selling chips and other homemade snacks to passersby.

An elderly woman died after her house caught fire yesterday morning trapping her inside.

Cash smuggler Khemraj Lall is facing the forfeiture of US$7.5m, several properties and aircraft.

Regan Rodrigues was charged with the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing based on the advice of the chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), which returned the case file to the police prior to the man’s arraignment.

State broadcaster National Communications Network (NCN) has requested emergency funding from the government, according to Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman.

Almost €1.8 million in European Union (EU) funding for the proposed Kato Hydropower Project expired in February.

With Chile’s establishment of a resident embassy in Georgetown, more opportunities are expected to be available for dialogue and cooperation between the two countries, deputy-director of the Diplomatic Academy of Chile Patricio Powell says.

Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson says he will seek Cabinet’s position on polygraph testing after receiving complaints by employees of the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA).

A Chinese businessman was shot last evening when bandits attacked his supermarket at Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara.

Attorney General Basil Williams, while remaining adamant that government cannot stand the cost of the increased tuition fees for Guyanese law students at the Hugh Wooding Law School, on Thursday said that it will now seek to approach the Council of Legal Education in an attempt to have the issue resolved.

A hospital patient and a second person were injured when the ambulance in which they were being transported was involved in an accident with another vehicle at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara yesterday.

Policing in Berbice is being boosted with the deployment of ranks of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) unit to the division, the Guyana Police Force announced yesterday.

Deputy Chief Executive Officer (DCEO) of the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) Aeshwar Deonarine has promised to repay some $27.8M which he had transferred from the PetroCaribe fund to his personal bank account.