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SILESIA, Poland – Olympic bronze medalist Megan Tapper of Jamaica had to settle for the same color medal in the women’s 110 meters hurdles at the latest World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting at Stadion Slaski on Sunday.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Britain’s High Commissioner to Guyana, Jane Miller, says her country has become the single largest trading partner with Guyana after indicating that trade between the two countries had amounted to GPB 560 million (One British Pound=US$1. 25 cents) last year.

SANTIAGO, Chile – The Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says the war in Ukraine had quickened inflation, reduced growth and increased poverty in Latin American and the Caribbean.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Top experts from the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York are in Guyana to provide training to 400 physicians here to help them better detect and treat patients with long-COVID.