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hree days after 22 fishing boats were attacked by pirates close to the shores of Suriname the captain and crew from another boat arrived at the Number 66 Fish Port Complex on the Corentyne early Wednesday morning.

The National Assembly yesterday passed the Supplemen-tary Appropriation Bill (No. 1 for 2007) approving $8.679 billion for current and capital expenditure.

Relatives yesterday witnessed the exhumations of the bodies of three fishermen, which had washed up on the Corentyne shores, and arranged to take them to the East Coast Demerara to perform the “last rites.”

More than 50% of Regent Street businesses said there was need for more bins need to be placed in the area and have called for greater consultations between them and the Mayor and City Council (M&CC).

Shane Phillips, who is currently serving an eight-year sentence for using forged Office of the President (OP) cash payment vouchers to obtain millions of dollars in items from various city stores, was on Wednesday slapped with four additional charges.

Barama Company Limited (BCL) announced yesterday that it will pay the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) $96.4 million fine for a number of breaches related to under declaration and falsifying documentation of product origin committed in third party concessions.

Three years after electing Opposition Leader Robert Corbin as its president general, the Guyana Labour Union (GLU) denounced him yesterday stating that he had never even been a member.

A city businessman was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Oneidge Waldron-Allicock charged with four counts of buggery of male minors.

Two brothers were killed yesterday evening when their motorcycle and a sand truck collided on the public road at Versailles, West Bank Demerara, close to the VCT Channel 28 transmission station.

A large local logging company was yesterday fined approximately $21 million by the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) over similar breaches for which Barama Company Limited was fined $96.4 million last month.

Laws across Caribbean nations need to be harmonised if the creation of a credit bureau for the sharing of information among indigenous banks as a means of tracking bad creditors and money launderers is to become a reality.

The Guyana Labour Union (GLU) is threatening strike action if workers of the New Amsterdam Town Council do not receive their October salaries by today.

Contractors likely to be awarded Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) contracts were on Tuesday oriented about the company’s expectations and reminded of their obligations regarding adherence to work standards.

Police on Monday arrested 18 minibus ‘touts’ at the various bus parks in the city during the zero tolerance traffic operations in progress, police said in a press release yesterday.

The partly decomposed body of an elderly man was yesterday found in a trench next to the Mandela Avenue dump site, Princes Street, Georgetown.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday remanded to prison a man accused of robbing another man of items valued at $22,000 at gunpoint.

Two brothers accused of attempting to kill another man were remanded to prison when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A man who was said to be engaged to a girl under the age of 15 was refused bail after he appeared before Magistrate Geeta Chandan at the New Amsterdam Court recently to answer a charge of carnal knowledge.

The captains and crew of 22 fishing vessels of the Number 66 Fish Complex were left stranded in the Corentyne River on Sunday, after armed pirates relieved them of their gasoline, engine coils and a quantity of fish glue.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is pressing its case for the introduction of new revenue earning measures arguing that its is currently operating at a deficit of more than $2 billion, while its collectable amount currently rests at only $1.6 billion a year.