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Success Elementary student Solomon Cherai has been named the top student at this year’s National Grade Six Grade Six Assessment (NGSA).

The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) will be reconstituted, according to Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, who says that after years of sole sourcing the new government intends that the award of contracts will be done in a transparent process.

The Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry (CoI) will be given the opportunity to host one final sitting, following which the commissioners will be given a one-month period in which to present their findings to the president, Minister of the Presidency Joseph Harmon said yesterday.

A reduction of the Berbice Bridge toll is being “actively considered” by Cabinet and some advice has been sought from a group of experts, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said yesterday.

An interim board will be set up for the Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest) and will be comprised of representatives of the government, opposition, the private sector and civil society.

Anthony De Paul Hope, called “Papa,” was implicated by one of his co-accused in the murder of his aunt Colleen Forrester, a jury heard yesterday after the caution statement of Ralph Tyndall was admitted into evidence at the men’s trial.

Reiterating that Guyana’s May 11th general elections was fair and the results represented the will of the people, British High Commissioner Greg Quinn last evening said that is now important to move forward and for the United Kingdom to help Guyana develop and grow.

One of the three men who police say was involved in a shoot-out with businessman Neezam Khan during a foiled robbery, at Grove, East Bank Demerara on Saturday was yesterday charged and remanded to prison.

The Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs has rejected a complaint by the opposition PPP that three nominees of the governing coalition were not eligible for swearing in as technocratic ministers on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund dramatically raised the stakes in Greece’s stalled debt talks yesterday, announcing that its delegation had left negotiations in Brussels and flown home because of major differences with Athens.

At the opening of the 11th Parliament on Wednesday, several new parliamentarians were sworn in and the rookies are excited and eager to play their role in the law-making forum.

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – More than half of a record 160 million accounts opened in India as part of a drive to offer banking to all are still empty, illustrating the massive task ahead for one of the government’s most high-profile campaigns and the strain on banks.

(Trinidad Express) The wife of a murdered businessman has appeared in court charged under the Trafficking in Persons Act.

Cleveland Allen, accused of break and enter and attempting to commit a felony after police found him in the Bourda Market during prohibited hours, told a city court yesterday that he fell asleep in the market.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Master of the macabre Christopher Lee, who portrayed Dracula in outrageous Hammer Films horror classics but became known to later generations for roles in “Star Wars” and as the wizard Saruman in the “Lord of the Rings”, has died aged 93.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Hundreds of law enforcement agents hunting for two upstate New York prison escapees focused their search on Thursday on a heavily wooded area just a few miles from the maximum security facility where they broke out last week, police said.

A man who admitted to entering a woman’s yard and stealing her clothes baskets and doormats was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in jail.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Protecting the world’s dwindling forests and making small farms more productive will cost hundreds of billions of dollars annually – money governments and charities do not have to spend, experts said at a London conference.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – A former Venezuelan mayor jailed last year for his role in anti-government protests has ended a 20-day hunger strike that supporters said had weakened him and triggered kidney pain, his wife said yesterday.

(Reuters) – World-class cricket is finally coming to the United States with “three or four” matches being planned for south Florida next year, a top Caribbean official told Reuters on Thursday.