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A number of sugar workers downed tools on Saturday last for three days in response to the corporation’s refusal of their union’s proposed Annual Production Incentive (API).

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) yesterday launched its new Education Savings Plan and Minister of Education Dr Rupert Roopnaraine urged other banks to follow suit, while saying education is the most instrumental sector in development.

Guyana’s indigenous communities feel that enough is not being done to take on board their recommendations in relation to the crafting of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) for forest management between Guyana and the European Union.

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has launched an investigation into allegations that four of its employees drugged and gang raped a woman at the entity’s Mahdia location and police have apprehended a suspect.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) collected in excess of $174 million in rates during the month of October, almost three times the $59 million collected for the corresponding period in 2014.

Thirteen-year-old Shakiva Clements, who was battling bone cancer, passed away last Thursday.

The Government of Guy-ana is to partner with all banking institutions to implement appropriate policy measures to promote greater financial inclusion.

Amid ongoing concerns about the problematic operations of the Skeldon Sugar Factory which has cost millions to fix since its construction, former President Donald Ramotar says that price was the most important issue in awarding the contract, a point that sugar industry expert Tony Vieira has disputed.

Having completed the Be Your Own Boss component of USAID’s Skills and Knowledge for Youth Employment (SKYE) programme, 70 young men and women were yesterday awarded individual grants of $200,000 to start their own businesses.

As the November 30 deadline approaches for the completion of the report by the Commis-sion of Inquiry (CoI) into the assassination of Dr Walter Rodney the PPP is warning the government not to delay in its public dissemination, as this would be viewed with “deep suspicion.”

Rubis Guyana Inc donated mechanical engineer tool kits and coveralls, in addition to completing a full refurbishment of the workshops at the Government Technical Institute (GTI.)

Patrina Dalrymple, the Guyana-born American woman now on the run after being charged over an attempt to smuggle nearly a kilo of cocaine onboard a flight out of the country, was yesterday sentenced to 60 months in prison in her absence.

A Stabroek market vendor was yesterday released on $25,000 bail after she pleaded not guilty to wounding her sister.

The four men accused of killing 72-year-old Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris will likely know their fate today.

A Linden teen was yesterday fined $5,000 and sentenced to three months of community service after she pleaded guilty to possession of cannabis.

Four persons were yesterday charged with trafficking marijuana after a Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) bust at an East La Penitence house uncovered almost 2.5 kilos of the drug.

The APNU+AFC government will soon be moving to Parliament with a bill to widen the definition of a coroner.

As the government pursues a holistic approach to fixing Guyana’s drainage system, Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson and Minister of Agriculture Noel Holder yesterday met a Dutch Risk Reduction team, which is here in a consultancy capacity.

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s supreme leader, at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Tehran, said yesterday US policies in the Middle East were a threat to both countries and called for closer bilateral ties.

IDOMENI, GREECE (Reuters) – Moroccans, Iranians and Pakistanis on Greece’s northern border with Macedonia blocked rail traffic and demanded passage to western Europe yesterday, stranded by a policy of filtering migrants in the Balkans that has raised human rights concerns.