Stabroek News - 2020-08-11

• Hundreds of millions paid to ministry advisors, community officers without evidence of performanc­e - Dharamlall
• PNM wins Trinidad elections
• Van West-Charles contract at GWI terminated
• Director of Sports’ contract terminated
• Bus conductor dies in Soesdyke crash
• Lebanese government quits amid fury over Beirut blast
• Bloody clashes in Belarus as West condemns crackdown after election
• Hong Kong’s Apple Daily vows to ‘fight on’ after owner arrested
• Derecho winds tear through U.S. farmland, leave 500,000-plus without power
• A generation­al crisis?
• GAWU hopeful reopening of estates can commence soon
• Potaro-Siparuni in dire need of services
• FITUG heartened by plan to aid COVID-hit households
• Let’s celebrate our Guyanese identity daily
• CARICOM should formulate Convention on Electoral Systems
• Polls, increased subvention­s for local gov’t organs among priorities for Dharamlall’s ministry
• Harmon, Broomes co-opted to PNCR executive
• UNDP provides COVID-19 aid to persons with HIV, LGBT+ community
• Lawsuit for disclosure of Irfaan Ali’s academic qualificat­ions likely to be aborted
• Nandlall unhappy with way IDB-funded project on prison population proceeding
• GBTI expands online banking services
• Corentyne C
• Essequibo farmers to be given aid with paddy bug infestatio­n
• Man paralysed after police chase given 50/50 chance of survival if surgery done to remove warhead fragments
• Chamber calls for elections inquiry
• CCJ declines applicatio­n from Guyanese men for further appeal of drug conviction­s
• Indar slams delays in works to seal Mahaicony breaches
• Disabled People’s Network to have their own building
• Livewire Lukaku leads Inter to Europa League semi-finals
• Former champion Kuznetsova latest to withdraw from U.S. Open
• Mexico’s legendary masked wrestlers thrown out of ring by coronaviru­s
• Fired Jones likely to be Shadow Minister
• Morikawa savours first major and says he’s ready for more
• Chile, Bolivia through, Venezuela pipped
• NBA roundup: Lillard scores 51, Embiid injured in Blazers’ win
• Germany bars fans from soccer matches till at least end of October
• Misbah says Pakistan must move on from Old Trafford defeat
• —League invites new title sponsor to replace Vivo
• Report recommenda­tions could improve governance of CWI

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