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-wants restructuring of NPTAB The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Friday called for the resignation of the government nominees on the procurement commission over their failure to sanction a pump station contract to Tepui Inc and it also called for a restructuring of  the national tender board.

A man remains critically injured following the collision on Friday night on the Williamsburg Public Road that left two motorcyclists dead.

The Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI) says it yesterday performed the first successful Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI), also known as Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR), in Guyana.

The Opposition APNU+AFC  considers as a significant reaffirmation of workers’ rights, the ruling on Friday by High Court Judge Sandil Kissoon that the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) led strike was legal.

Police in Berbice yesterday nabbed a now 63-year-old logger who was wanted in connection with the murder of another in Baracara during 2013. 

By Mia Anthony The recent deaths of children in Berbice have brought back harrowing memories for a West Demerara family whose five-year-old daughter died last September Umawattie Gonace, mother of five-year old, Jai-devi Gurdyal told the Sunday Stabroek  that her daughter’s case is now at a standstill.

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran is standing by his assessment that the report by VHE Consulting on US$7.4b in expenses by Exxon and its partners is deficient.

The body of a miner, Exley Boyal, a 40-year-old from Batavia Village, Cuyuni River, was found at about 5.30 pm on Friday floating in the Essequibo River.

A People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Regional Councillor and party activist on Wakenaam Island, Region Three, Sadiq Ahmad, has been recorded threatening to remove recipients from the April Cash Grant list if they did not support the PPP/C’s hotdog sale.

While the Attorney-General is seeking to bring all civic and political factions together in a Consti-tutional Reform Commit-tee, other elements in the State apparatus are busy driving them apart, according to the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA). 

The Central Housing and Planning Authority will be conducting a Pile Driving exercise which will affect electricity supply for customers in the areas of Agricola to Nandy Park.

The PPC recently convened a meeting with the Ministry of Finance designed to enhance public procurement efficiency and it is aiming for access to contract awards.

Seventeen ranks of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) have commenced the Grade Three Medical Assistants Course.

A review by Christopher Ram Introduction Coming out from seclusion roughly 3 1/2 years after the end of his prime ministership of the APNU+AFC Coalition Govern-ment 2015 – 2020, long-serving politician and attorney-at-law Moses Nagamootoo has published his autobiographical account of that period.

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) held its first auto expo loan event at the Giftland Mall parking lot yesterday which saw the presence of many auto sales dealers and patrons.

NUR SHAMS, West Bank,  (Reuters) –  Israeli forces killed 14 Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank yesterday, while an ambulance driver was killed as he went to pick up wounded from a separate attack by violent Jewish settlers, Palestinian authorities said.

(Trinidad Guardian) Former energy minister Kevin Ramnarine is disputing statements made by Energy Minister Stuart Young that the decision by the US government to reimpose sanctions on Venezuela’s oil and gas sector does not affect the special amended licence that was issued to the Government of T&T on October 17, 2023.

(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed gratitude yesterday for the passage by the U.S.

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Spain,  (Reuters) – Thousands of people protested in Tenerife yesterday, calling for the Spanish island to temporarily limit tourist arrivals to stem a boom in short-term holiday rentals and hotel construction that is driving up housing costs for locals.

Avinash Kuttai, a 37-year-old construction worker of School Road, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, was charged yesterday with possession of narcotics and sentenced to community service.