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Education Minister Priya Manickchand sticks the PRRC’s 47th anniversary cake with one of its students while President Donald Ramotar, Rehabilitation Officer Cynthia Massay and students look on.
Education Minister Priya Manickchand sticks the PRRC’s 47th anniversary cake with one of its students while President Donald Ramotar, Rehabilitation Officer Cynthia Massay and students look on.

$50M special school commissioned at Ptolemy Reid centre

The $50 million Harold B Davis Special School was yesterday commissioned at the Ptolemy Reid Rehabil-itation Centre (PRRC) during a simple ceremony, at which Rehabilitation Offi-cer Cynthia Massay announced that the name was chosen to honour former chairman, Harold B Davis, who was the longest serving chairman of the school board.

Robert Persaud
Robert Persaud

Bill passed to streamline land surveying

The National Assembly last Thursday passed legislation which is intended to create a steady flow of adequately trained and certified surveyors and establish a board which will regulate the profession.

‘Black Boy’ to stand trial for rape

The conclusion of a paper committal at the Charity Magistrate’s Court yesterday saw an Essequibo man committed to stand trial in the High Court for the rape of a child under the age of 16.

Chamber urges formal probe of reported lack of progress in Region 10 deal

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce & Industry (GCCI) is urging the government to mount a formal probe into the allegations made by the Regional Democratic Council Chairman of Region 10, Sharma Solomon that the committees established under the agreement that brought an end to the Linden protests in 2012 have achieved little to date.

Pilot, cargo handler found dead in TGA wreckage

GDF Special Forces Officers arrived at the site of the wreckage of  a Trans Guyana Airways plane this morning a little after 7 am and found both of its occupants  Canadian pilot, Blake Slater and cargo handler Dwayne Jacobs dead.

Dwayne Jacobs

Wreck of missing plane spotted

The fate of the two men onboard the Trans Guyana Airways (TGA) plane which crashed on Saturday remained unclear last night with army Special Forces expected to reach the wreckage this morning.

Firefighters battling the blaze on Saturday night

Regent St store gutted

A fire which erupted around 10 pm on Saturday gutted a Chinese-operated clothing store along Regent Street and a woman had to be dramatically rescued by firemen from a neighbouring building.

De Kinderen policeman chopped by neighbour

A constable attached to the Brickdam Police Station had to undergo emergency surgery to remove bone fragments from both knees and his lower back at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation after surviving a chopping attack by his neighbour yesterday afternoon.

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