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City schools won the most awards at the Children’s Costume Parade on Saturday last.

The parents of an East Coast Demerara (ECD) primary school pupil who was flogged severely by a teacher at the school last month are mulling taking legal action as they expressed dissatisfaction at the manner in which the issue is being handled.

A 38-year-old welder accused of telling a woman he will ‘chop her up’ and ‘put a bullet in her head’ was yesterday fined $30,000 after he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A group of forestry experts from the African nation of Ghana last week benefited from a public seminar on chainsaw milling among other aspects of Guyana’s forest sector.

A man accused of stealing a $65,000 gold chain from a woman was yesterday placed on $150,000 bail after he appeared before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer the charge of larceny from the person.

A man who pleaded guilty to using threatening and abusive language to his girlfriend was yesterday fined $30,000, when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

A new recreational park—the Double Day Fun Park—was on Sunday declared open at Tuschen by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds.

The Health Ministry’s national eye care programme which targets mostly adults is now being expanded to accommodate school-aged children, in collaboration with Eye Care Guyana and the Ministry of Education, the Government Information Agency (GINA) said in a press release.

Through the kind courtesy of AON Inter-national Inc, Miami, USA, the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) received more than 5,000 copies of the Holy Quran in English in both large and pocket-size editions, during 2011 and at the beginning of this year.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran would take pre-emptive action against its enemies if it felt its national interests were endangered, the deputy head of the Islamic Republic’s armed forces was quoted by a semi-official news agency as saying yesterday.

The Traffic Department is intensifying its campaign against drivers whose vehicles have heavily tinted windows and slogans and those who breach other road rules, in order to curb recklessness on the roadways.

SANAA/ADEN (Reuters) – Separatist violence in the south loomed over a presidential election in Yemen that had just a single candidate, but Washington praised the vote ending three decades of rule by its ally Ali Abdullah Saleh.

BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) – Syrian government forces killed at least 100 people yesterday in assaults on villages and an artillery barrage in the restive city of Homs, activists said, and the Red Cross called for daily ceasefires to allow in urgently needed aid.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez will undergo another operation in the coming days after doctors in Cuba found a lesion in his pelvis where surgeons removed a large cancerous tumour last year, he said yesterday.

The Community Action Component (CAC) of the Citizen Security Programme (CSP) hosted a planning workshop for making communities safer, on Saturday.

LILLE, France (Reuters) – Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was questioned by police yesterday over his dealings with an alleged prostitution ring that was run from the northern French city of Lille and organized sex parties in Paris, Brussels and Washington.

The Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha’s annual Phagwah Mela and Bazaar will be held at a new venue this year and for the first time the event will feature an Indian Folk Dance festival.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – A Guatemalan court decided yesterday to extradite a 40-year-old suspected drug trafficker to the United States because of his alleged ties to Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel.

The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) has started discussions with Cuba on advancing disaster risk reduction cooperation agreements, particularly on streamlining Cuba’s response and relief support within the Regional Response System.

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – A devastating prison fire that killed 360 inmates in a Honduran penitentiary was likely caused by a candle or cigarette that set a mattress alight, investigators said yesterday.