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The Ministry of Health is hosting an eight-day medical outreach programme at geriatric homes across the country to mark International Day of Older Persons.

Almost one year since the Region Four administration was sworn in with the two major parties sharing the two top spots, Chairman Clement Corlette has described it as “a very good marriage”.

The 11 heart patients who were in desperate need of over US$17,000 for travel expenses are on their way to India after First Lady Varshanie Singh successfully conducted emergency fundraising drives in Guyana, New York, Canada and the United Kingdom.

One of three men implicated in the $100M cocaine-in-fish glue bust back in May, on Thursday denied ownership of the boxes that CANU ranks seized from a locked area in the house, saying he had no access there.

Magistrate Yohhahnseh Cave on Friday further remanded to prison a teenager accused of murdering a former presidential guard, on his second appearance at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court.

Two weeks after two Buxtonian men alleged they were brutally beaten and burnt by members of the joint services while in their custody, Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee yesterday said that the government does not support the torturing of any citizen and assured that the allegations are being investigated.

The Clerical and Commercial Workers’ Union (CCWU) and the Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers (UAAW) recently brought a number of concerns regarding the Value Added Tax (VAT) to the attention of the VAT Commissioner.

Postal worker, Germin Forde, who was shot dead early Friday morning in New Amsterdam by bandits, may have been killed because he recognised one of the attackers and called the person by name, a police source said yesterday.

Six deportees have secured jobs through the local organisation, Juncata Juvant, established some five months ago to help to re-integrate ex-convicts into society.

Tuition fees for Guyanese attending the University of the West Indies (UWI) are now comparable to fees paid by those from countries that contribute to it and relations between UG and UWI have progressed over the past two years with both institutions set to benefit, UWI Vice-Chancellor Nigel Harris says.

Barbadian investors are upbeat about Guyana, saying that the market has been good to them but one potential investor is calling on government to establish an export guarantee scheme especially for natural resources.

A total of seven families on Thursday benefited from a donation by the Guyana Relief Council (GRC).

The hearing aid lab at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has a capacity to produce about 100 hearing aids per month but only makes about 15 since not many persons know of the facility.

An investigation into the spraying of pesticides at the Skeldon Estate during which workers were affected has found that while there was poor planning by the field department, there was no “significant physical symptoms among the patients treated”.

Pardoned treason accused Mark Benschop has started a clean-up project in the city with youths from depressed communities.

Government’s objective to accelerate the country’s agricultural development is moving forward with more than $70M being invested to re-open large lands for farming activities at the Cozier agricultural scheme, Region Two (Pomeroon/Supenaam), the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

BOSAI Minerals Group Guyana Inc. has donated $100,000 to the Rotary Club of Georgetown Central to assist the club in its charitable work in communities.

Dear Editor, Help & Shelter condemns the horrific assault on the family whose members were robbed, stripped and physically and sexually assaulted outside a Sheriff Street night club on Monday 26 March 2007.

An elderly couple who appeared to be visitors were choked and robbed on Saturday night at the corner of Alexander and Regent Streets by two men who had accomplices lurking nearby.

Two men, one of whom was armed with a gun yesterday morning robbed a Chinese restaurant at Herstelling, East Bank Demerara (EBD) of an undisclosed sum of money before escaping in a car.