Figueira regrets that PPP/C years not scrutinized by PAC
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Jermaine Figueira
presiding at a PAC meeting

-but says there were significant accomplishments With his tenure as Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) at an end, former APNU+AFC MP Jermaine Figueira expressed regret to Stabroek News that the parliamentary body was unable to scrutinize the audit reports the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) administration.

Suspect in murder of Soesdyke woman succumbs
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The family of Bibi Salima Persaud, a 54-year-old housewife from Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara, is still trying to come to terms with her brutal killing last Friday, allegedly at the hands of her reputed partner, Dinesh Ram, also known as `Paul’, who succumbed to poisoning on Saturday.

Joint medical outreach team sees 277 patients in Matthews Ridge
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Two hundred and seventy-seven patients were seen and nine hundred and forty-five services were performed over the July 5-6 weekend in the Region One community of Matthews Ridge after the Guyana Medical Relief (GMR), the Guyana Cancer Society (GCS), the Ministry of Health (MoH), the Region One Health Administration and the Balwant Singh Hospital collaborated to conduct a specialist only medical outreach.

Monitoring Chinese businesses
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At his press conference on July 3rd at PPP headquarters, the General Secretary of the party who is also the Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo said that the government is monitoring the purchase of goods by Chinese businesses here against those of distributors as reports of payments by way of gold and foreign currency have surfaced, with local banks holding few records from those entities.

Wiaan Mulder brought up the second fastest triple century in Test cricket.  (Zimbabwe Cricket)

Mulder’s 367 not out headlines South Africa’s day of domination
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(ESPNcricinfo)- July 7, 2025 may not invoke the same grand feeling of that unforgettable summer afternoon at Lord’s last month, but it’ll still have a reverence of its own for Wiaan Mulder, who, only weeks earlier, stood on the winner’s podium as a newly crowned World Test Champion.