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The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) says the public should use the Deepavali celebrations to highlight peace and understanding.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) says it joins the Hindu community in the Diwali celebrations of good over evil and light over darkness.

The Guyana Public Service Union extends felicitations to devotees and all citizens this Diwali and recognises that persons have displayed courage in the face of hardships this year.

In order to increase debit card usage in Guyana, Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited, the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry Limited and Demerara Bank Limited have collaborated with the Bank of Guyana to launch the ‘Swipe and Win’ promotion.

The security of citizens has been placed high on the agenda of the Guyana Police Force as it officially launched its 2007 Christmas policing plan which will cover from November 16 to January 16, 2008.

The Guyana Public Service Union says that a 24% hike in wages is its starting point for discussions with the government this year.

Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle yesterday remanded to prison a Campbellville resident accused of stabbing a mini-bus conductor to death on Sunday.

Twenty-eight-year-old Gopinauth Perreira of East La Penitence was yesterday released on $250,000 bail by Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys after being charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving.

Magistrate Krishndat Persaud denied a businessman his pre-trial freedom when he appeared before him yesterday at the Number 51 Magistrate’s Court charged with possession of firecrackers.

A 46-year-old Rupununi man was yesterday slapped with an incest charge and remanded to prison for allegedly sleeping with his 15-year-old daughter and causing her to bear his child, who is now 4 months old.

A 58-year-old woman who allegedly fed her husband small doses of poison until he died was yesterday charged with murder and remanded to prison by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.

Two teenaged boys yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with the murder of Mocha schoolgirl, Sade Stoby and one of them alleged that police forced him to admit to the gruesome crime.

Hire car and minibus drivers, cane-cutters and housewives yesterday turned out in their numbers at Tain, Corentyne to continue their protest against increased fines and fares and this time they also protested against the police’s use of “excessive” force.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) is advertising for the construction of a 25- megawatt heavy fuel oil power plant together with 69kV interconnection facilities as the company seeks to up its generation capacity for the end-of-year peak period.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) is pressing the government for a 14% wage increase for this year and for the wage deficit from 2002-6 to be taken care of but the government is standing by an offer of 8% for this year.

A group of local and foreign individuals and company investors in the forestry, aquaculture, mining, handicraft and tourism sectors recently met with residents of Region One (Barima/Waini).

The Ministry of Health now has a new warehouse which is expected to strengthen its capacity for more effective drug distribution and ensure more accountability in its material management system, according to a release from the Government Information Agency (GINA).Minister

A group of Guyanese and Brazilian businessmen and others have formed a Guyana/Brazil Friendship Society, which was registered as a duly incorporated non-profit company in September 2007.

Some 30-40 buyers enquired about Guyanese produce after several samples were displayed at the 10th IFE America Food and Beverage Trade Show and Conference hosted in Miami last month.

Sea Freight Agencies Inc, a shipping line based in Miami that serves the Caribbean has donated $1 million towards the rehabilitation of the Theatre Guild Playhouse at Kingston.