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ADELAIDE, (Reuters) – Australian chairman of   selectors Andrew Hilditch said today he would not jump   unless pushed despite stinging criticism following the Ashes   drubbing by England.

President Bharrat Jagdeo paid $5 million per acre for land for his home at the new housing development at Sparendaam, East Coast Demerara which has been dubbed ‘Pradoville 2’.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – A leaked report on Haiti’s disputed November 28 elections by Organization of American States experts recommends that a government-backed presidential candidate be eliminated from a second-round run-off, a US media report said yesterday.

BRISBANE, Australia (Reuters) – Tsunami-like flash floods raced towards Australia’s third-largest city of Brisbane today, prompting evacuations of its outskirts, flood warnings for the financial district and predictions that the death toll is likely to climb.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – At least 36 people have died in clashes between Arab nomads and southerners near Sudan’s north- south border, leaders in the contested Abyei region said yesterday, on the second day of a vote on southern independence.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – At least 77 people were killed in Sunday’s passenger plane crash in northwestern Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported yesterday.

The Humphrey’s building on Main Street was early yesterday morning destroyed by fire and residents in the neighbourhood reported hearing loud explosions just before it started.

Search teams this morning found the body of a 22-year-old woman who went missing on Sunday after the boat she was in capsized in the Essequibo River.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that national elections will be held within the allotted constitutional period and he denied claims by the PNCR that the government is seeking to extend his term.

Mark ‘Bow-wow’ Hyman, owner of the Stabroek Market stall where the grenade exploded last Wednesday, was released on station bail some time over the weekend, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said.

Within the last five days investigators have made two failed attempts to identify the deceased called ‘American’ or ‘Yankee’, who they believe was holding the grenade which exploded at the Stabroek Market area last Wednesday.

The government subsidized 50% of the cost of medical treatment accessed both locally and overseas last year even as the Ministry of Health continues to expand the services available here and those accessible through its public/private partnership in health (PPP/H) programme.

President Bharrat Jagdeo has asked Dr Steve Surujbally to resign from his post as chairman of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA), following objections by several stakeholders to the chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) holding a second position.

A Number 19 Village businessman was attacked and robbed by armed bandits on Saturday evening and is now nursing wounds to the head inflicted by a cutlass beating.

Plans for the official launch of the government’s programme to observe the International Year of People of African Descent (IYAD) have reportedly been put on hold following objections from several African organizations.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday revealed that the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) has had its monopoly extended until the new telecommunications legislation is passed to liberalise the sector He made the announcement yesterday at a news conference at the Office of the president.

Vendor Wendell Baird spent last night in the Brickdam lockups on a charge of illegal vending with his attorney accusing the police of operating high handedly in denying the man station bail.

The family of Shaunell Warrick, the teacher who was brutally beaten on New Year’s Day, clings to the hope that she will recover even though she was moved to the Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital and placed on a respirator.

A man was yesterday admitted to bail in the sum of $25,000, after appearing before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on a charge of unlawful possession.

Some itinerant vendors who sell fruits, shoes, hats and clothes plied their trade outside the Stabroek Market once again yesterday but many others were still waiting for their fates to be decided.