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Guyana will get a minimal increase in its European Union (EU) sugar quota under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), which was signed between the EU and Cariforum countries on Sun-day after four years of negotiations.

Residents in several villages along the East Coast Demerara have expressed disgust over how slowly floodwater is being drained.

A woman is in police custody following the stabbing to death of a Yarrowkabra labourer on Sunday night during a reported domestic squabble.

Businesses are more concerned about the impact of Value Added Tax (VAT) on consumer spending than issues such as money laundering, smuggling and fuel dumping, according to the 2008 Guyana Business Outlook Survey.

Two motorcars that were recently carjacked in Georgetown were found abandoned in Linden on Saturday last.

Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs on Tuesday committed Lennox Syfox, who is accused of stabbing his reputed wife to death at her Golden Grove home back in 2005, to stand trial in the High Court after she found that there was enough evidence in the matter.

After being forced to adjourn the trial into the Customs House $10M robbery on several occasions within the last few months, owing to the absence of the prosecution’s main witness, Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton on Wednesday set March 26 next year as the final date.

A 30-year-old sluice operator accused of robbing a Nismes, West Bank Demerara (WBD) service station two Wednesdays ago was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

The two crewmen of a tugboat that sank off the Golden Fleece, Essequibo foreshore on Friday are still missing and their families are not giving up hope that they may still be alive.

Two Corentyne businessmen, one of whom had been accused in the past of having connections with the drug trade, have been linked to the bulldozer which was found abandoned on an illegal airstrip discovered last week, 80 miles upriver from Orealla.

A man admitted to stealing car parts over a period while his alleged accomplices denied committing the offences when the quartet appeared at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court on Friday.

More than three months after the team tasked with the removal of asbestos from the University of Guyana submitted a report, which included how much it would cost, it is still awaiting word from the Ministry of Education, its head Melvyn Sankies said on Thursday.

Local aircraft owners are still contending with the unavailability of functioning navigation aids in the interior to assist the Air Traffic Control tower and pilots, a situation they find unacceptable.

The Guyana government will continue to waive the 15% Common External Tariff (CET) on extra-regional cement even though Cabinet Secretary Dr.

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) on Wednesday launched its 2008 almanac at a ceremony hosted for the winners and runners-up in an essay competition held to highlight “unnoticed or unknown aspects of our nation’s beauty.”

Guyana will express further interest in the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) launched on Tuesday by the World Bank in Bali, Indonesia, to combat tropical deforestation and climate change, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

Police say that they will be forced to bury and mark the grave of a foreigner killed two Saturdays ago in a shoot-out following the abduction of a woman and her daughter at Ruimzeight Gardens on the West Coast of Demerara.

The Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce (CCCC) elected executives for the year 2007-2008 at its third annual general meeting hosted recently.

The agriculture ministry says it is seeking the cooperation of all regional and neighbourhood democratic councils in removing all illegal structures that impede drainage in residential areas.

The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) said “the crescent for Zul Hijjah was not sighted” on Monday and for the sake of maintaining unity, the “sacred month” began on Tuesday.