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olice have launched an investigation into yet another armed attack on an overseas-based Guyanese in the Campbellville area.

Announcer/producer Andrea Bryan was fired from her job at the state-owned National Commu-nications Network (NCN) on Wednesday after she returned from attending a two-day seminar for reporting on children rights for regional journalists in Trinidad and Tobago.

Chaos struck at Barama Company Limited, Land of Canaan yesterday when news circulated that a 17-year-old female dryer operator had been gang-raped by three men in the wee hours of the morning while on duty.

Caribbean journalists have passed a resolution condemning the Guyana government’s withdrawal of state advertisements from the Stabroek News, deeming it “an attack on press freedom and an attempt to silence an independent newspaper.”

The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday affirmed that a substantial number felled peeler logs are available to Barama Company Limited (BCL), dismissing its claims on Tuesday that it was forced to close its Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara plywood mill because of a lack of these.

President Bharrat Jagdeo should produce the “numbers” showing the Kaieteur News’s larger circulation, which he said on Monday was the reasons for the withdrawal of government ads from the Stabroek News, the Guyana Press Association has said.

Government is proposing term limits for commissioners serving on the Elections Commission.

A 28-year-old Guyana-born scientist has been recognized for her contributions to medicine by Black Enterprise (BE) magazine’s December 2007 issue, which is now on newsstands in America, a release said yesterday.

The country’s fiscal position improved as projected over the first half of the year with a surplus of $3.2 billion compared to $0.7 billion in 2006 and a 7.5% increase in takings from taxes on income.

The hosting of the investiture ceremony for national awards has now been shifted to some time after Republic Day 2008.

Delon ‘Fatboy’ Reynolds has been arraigned in the High Court for the murder of self-confessed death squad informant George Bacchus.

The investigations into allegations of misconduct against Senior Superintendent Steve Merai have advanced with the interviewing of a key witness, the Alliance For Change (AFC) said it had been reliably informed.

Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy said yesterday that government’s efforts to increase the number of differently-able employed persons have intensified over the years and there are far more persons with disabilities working in both the public and private sector today.

An armed bandit got more than he bargained for when the schoo teacher he attempted to rob at a city hotel on Monday night snatched his gun out of his hand.

After spending three days in police custody, the eight Guyana Defence Force soldiers fingered in the theft of a single AK-47 rifle, yesterday returned to Base Camp Ayanganna.

A 22-year-old motorcyclist died on Tuesday following an accident on the Number 77 Public Road when he fell and struck his head after knocking down two pedestrians.

Over 300 cane-harvesters and weeders yesterday downed tools and protested in front of Freedom House in New Amsterdam over the high cost of living, which they attribute to the introduction of the Value-Added Tax (VAT) and for machinery to assist in harvesting.

Two years after it had expired the Advisory Council on the Prerogative of Mercy was recently reconstituted and members yesterday held their first meeting at the Ministry of Home Affairs.

The General Minibus Association of Guyana yesterday called on the government to intervene in reducing the prices of fuel and vehicle spare parts and said it would take appropriate action if this was not done.

Rainfall over the next few days is expected to be intermittent but a prolonged wet season is forecasted, and the Agriculture Ministry says it is spending millions in preparation for this.