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Police intercepted a minibus with a number of Suriname-bound passengers at Weldaad, West Coast Berbice yesterday morning carrying 10 pounds of compressed marijuana.

A taxi driver attached to the Top Notch Taxi Service located at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, is bemoaning his decision to take a hire from two “decent looking” men for South Ruimveldt as instead of receiving the $1500 for the drop he was gun-butted twice and forced to flee his car leaving cash and phone cards.

President Bharrat Jagdeo will host a reception this evening at State House for the Heads of State and some 294 delegates and observers attending the Commonwealth Finance Ministers’ Meeting (CFMM) which gets underway today and ends on Wednesday.

During the discussions of the special theme: climate change, Commonwealth Finance Ministers may over the next few days consider the thorny issue of carbon pricing and blended financing for climate-related investments but Finance Minister Dr.

The European Union (EU) demand for duty-free access for substantially all its exports to Cariforum countries is among the sticking points in trade talks between the two sides and this and the recent scrapping by the EU of the Sugar Protocol could feature at the Commonwealth Finance Ministers meeting this week.

‘Climate Change: The Challenges Facing Finance Ministers’ will form the basis for the technical discussions when Guyana hosts 40 countries at the Common-wealth Finance Ministers Meeting (CFMM) opening today.

The Canefield, East Canje resident whose concrete house has started to crack after a Digicel tower was erected right next to it earlier this year is pleased that the company contacted him after a news item appeared in this newspaper and is taking steps to have the problem rectified.

In preparation for the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting (CFMM) which officially opens this evening senior finance officials will meet this morning followed by a Commonwealth Business Council/World Bank Debt-Shadow Ratings meeting at the Guyana International Conference Centre.

A Vergenoegen youth who was the victim of a severe thrashing last month at the hands of his friends recently suffered a relapse and is back in hospital.

Armed bandits on Friday afternoon attacked Orangestein, East Bank Essequibo greens vendor Ayube Khan and his family making off with an undisclosed sum of cash, the proceeds of the sale of a vehicle.

President’s College’s acting kitchen manager was on Monday issued with a dismissal letter for insubordination but the woman says that she was fired for sending breakfast out to students on the morning they staged a protest on the Golden Grove Public Road over the quality of water they were receiving.

The man who was found with a gunshot wound in Agricola on Friday night said he was driven to the village in a taxi and shot unexpectedly by one of three men who were also travelling with him.

The grief-stricken father of five-year-old Brianna Dover whose lifeless body was pulled from the disused Tucville Sewerage System last July says that his child could have been alive today if the site was secured ten years ago when another toddler fell into the cesspool.

Residents of De Kinderen, West Coast Demerara, who staged protest action last Wednesday are expecting improved service after the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) agreed to double the daily supply to the area.

A 39-year-old food vendor was allegedly murdered on Sunday last after he reportedly refused to pay the sum of money requested by a man he allegedly had a sexual relationship with and who has now been charged with murder.

The Guyana Press Associa-tion (GPA) has issued a call for management and staff of all media houses to join Stabroek News in its peaceful picket between 8:30 and 9:30 am outside the Common-wealth Finance Ministers meeting tomorrow at the Guyana International Con-ference Centre, Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara.

Manmohan Singh became the first man to have heart bypass surgery in Guyana when the Caribbean Heart Institute’s (CHI) medical team successfully completed the operation yesterday at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Confirm him or let him go is the clarion call by some opposition Members of Parliament and leading private sector officials as government continues to prevaricate over the appointment of Henry Greene to the substantive post of Commissioner of Police.

A Laing Avenue man died after his motorcycle collided with a car at the corners of D’Urban and Lime streets early yesterday morning.

Ex-New York Police Com-missioner Bernard Kerik will likely face new federal charges, some linked to a meeting at Walker’s, a bar in Tribeca in lower Manhattan, New York, allegedly attended by Kerik and city officials, the New York Daily News reported on Friday.