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Stating that he could not “accept” the custodial penalty for simple larceny, a man accused of stealing produce worth over $170,000 was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Providence Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday clarified his statement made at the opening of the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting on Monday when he spoke about deploying the country’s forest in the fight against climate change, noting that he didn’t mean that ownership of the forest would have been transferred.

Four men and a woman are in police custody while the search continues for a small aircraft registered to Air Services Limited which mysteriously disappeared from the Anna Regina airstrip early Sunday morning.

A lawyer for Guyanese businessman Peter Morgan, who pleaded not guilty to three drug charges in New York and was remanded to prison last month, is in plea bargain negotiations with the prosecution, court documents have said.

Financing for women and financial literacy for legislators and the citizenry formed the basis for the discussions when Commonwealth Central Bank Governors met Monday morning at the Central Bank.

The developed countries’ agenda is no more on fighting poverty and alleviating hunger but rather on “economic aggrandizement at the expense of poor people” and developing countries can no longer depend on the “courtesies and handouts” of those partners, Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud says.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday promised to render financial assistance to the relatives of the 10 victims of the Linden highway accident.

A pair of manatees was on Friday exported to Spain under an agreement that will provide funding for improvements to the aquarium to house the Arapaima exhibits at the Guyana Zoological Park.

Potable water supply will soon be restored to Mahdia, Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall told residents during a two-day visit to the area last weekend.

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) is calling on all Guyanese and their organisations to speak out against what it described as the “spiteful dismissal” of the acting kitchen manager of President’s College, Claudia Shultz.

Climate change is turning out to be the most difficult economic issue the world has had to deal with and to combat it effectively economic growth will have to be shared equitably among developed and developing nations of the world.

Even as growth prospects remain good for next year, high oil prices and the increasing current account deficit of the United States and its role in imbalances in the global financial system could be cause for concern, says Nigerian Finance Minister Dr.

A breakfast dialogue by the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) for Heads of Delegation saw the discussion of inclusive banking and access to finance by the poor, said Finance Minister Dr.

Police are still on the hunt for a gunman who was one of two who opened fire on a businessman and his son as they arrived at their Lamaha Gardens home early Monday morning.

Improvements in safety and traffic management on the roadways continue to receive considerable attention as focus is now being placed on developing a strategy to regulate the operations of public commercial transportation services.

Guyana was one of the countries that did not respond to a questionnaire issued in December 2006 by the Commonwealth Secretariat Gender Section.

Lindeners last evening came out in their numbers for a candlelight vigil at the crash site for the 10 persons who perished in last Wednesday’s road accident.

Three men who allegedly had various quantities of ganja for trafficking when they were searched at police roadblocks were remanded to prison when they appeared at the Providence Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

A speed boat operator who borrowed a knife from a vendor to peel fruits and failed to return it was stabbed to death with the same knife yesterday at Supenaam.