Sara Bharrat

A 51-year-old Parfait Harmonie man was fatally stabbed in the neck yesterday after he intervened in a matter “concerning the burning of DVDs”, police said in a press statement last night.

Earl France, 24, of Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara died yesterday afternoon shortly after he sustained a single stab wound to the left side in the region of his heart.

Photos by Jules GibsonThis week we asked the man/woman in the street if they’d had a vacation this year and where, or if they hadn’t where they were planning to go and why.

Firefighters managed to contain a mysterious fire which gutted the building of West Half Fashion-Fabric World, located at Regent and Light streets, late yesterday afternoon.

-Agri Minister The Ministry of Agriculture is “contemplating” freezing the export of paddy to allow the expansion of its “testing regime”, Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud said yesterday.

Interviews by Sara Bharrat This week we asked the man/woman in the street what their favourite movie is and if the message in that movie had an effect on their lives.

Writing is a natural talent that flows from within and it’s not the sort of skill you can easily learn; there must be passion, writer Pearl Lewis said.

photos by Jules Gibson This week we asked the man/woman in the street if they believed in the supernatural and whether they’d had such an experience.

Rice miller and farmer Beni Sankar says he doesn’t think that the recent slashing of the export commission will enable millers to pay growers more for their paddy.

Relative says threatened by assailantThe six-month-old baby injured when her mother was attacked by an ex-lover remained in stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) up to late yesterday afternoon.

– cops seeking ex-lover A 21-year-old woman, her six-month-old baby and two female relatives were admitted as patients at the Georgetown Public Hospital, after her ex-reputed husband launched a violent attack on them with a piece of wood yesterday morning.

“People talking say I kill them but wa me go kill them for…,” Bibi Rafzia Grovesnor, the mother of the dead Ramdeen sisters, sobbed repeatedly yesterday.

This week we asked the man/woman in the street how the Mayor and City Council should spend the government grant of $10M per month for one year: Marla Alleyne, Public Sector Employee: ‘It should be spent on drains.

This week we asked the man/woman in the street if lie detectors should be used at workplaces to determine honesty and if they would be prepared to take a test Althea Edwards, Self-employed: ‘I don’t think that any company should be allowed to give their employees lie detector tests.

A 15-year-old of Block ‘R’, North Sophia was fatally shot in the left eye during an attempted robbery in the neighbourhood last night.

-dismisses ‘pressure group’ as unlawful Faced with growing dissatisfaction over prices being offered by rice millers for paddy, the Guyana Rice Producers’ Association (RPA) yesterday urged farmers to consider the effects of the “global crisis” on pricing.

Over 300 Albouystown households suspected to be stealing electricity from the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) have been targeted in a major loss reduction campaign, which started yesterday.

photos by Jules Gibson This week we asked the man/woman in the street if they knew what the word daggering meant and if it should be edited from songs before they were released in Guyana.

-was bound and gagged, robbery suspected An elderly man, his hands and feet bound, was found dead in his D’Urban Backlands home yesterday, in an apparent robbery/murder.

This week we asked the man, woman in the street what they thought about the cross-dressing charges that were brought against seven men last week.