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The Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) has bought over the contentious consignment of Bunker C fuel sealed off in 35,000 barrels on the BK International ship, New Horizon, docked midstream at the mouth of the Demerara River.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was briefed on Bernard Kerik’s reported link to a company suspected of ties to organised crime before he appointed him the city’s police commissioner and Giuliani has now reiterated it was a mistake to nominate Kerik in the failed bid to head the Department of Homeland Security.

A multi-million dollar technical cooperation project to increase economic opportunities and generate income for economically disadvantaged youths interested in becoming entrepreneurs was signed yesterday between the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Institute for Private Enterprise Development (IPED).

If HIV and AIDS were a cricket team competing in Cricket World Cup 2007, South Africa would give it a sound thrashing, according to former Test cricketer Jonty Rhodes who said the key is to study the opponent, do the necessary research and execute as planned.

Some residents of Bush Lot New Housing Scheme are peeved that a contractor who was assigned to fix the streets in the area has taken almost two years to do the job and it is still not completed.

Guyana’s national awards would be announced on May 26, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon has said.

Police last night held a group of men after a raid in Kitty.

Police yesterday afternoon raided a section of the Stabroek Market detaining at least ten men who were then carried to the Brickdam Police Station.

An overseas-based Guyanese was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday morning after feeling ill while at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

The turnout at yesterday’s match between the English team and newcomers Ireland was even better than that for Wednesday’s opening game.

Caribbean governments will retain some security arrangements put in place for the Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007.

Cabinet has green-lighted a contract for over $57 million for the procurement and delivery of medical equipment for the Ministry of Health.

More than 850 persons who underwent eye surgery in Cuba have benefited from the spectacles laboratory established at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

Since opening for business on December 18 last year the City Mall has become both a popular haunt for urban dwellers as well as a favoured venue for shoppers.

All modern wars have their iconic images. For many Americans the Vietnam war was an abstract moral problem until they saw a haunting photograph of girl fleeing her village after it had been bombed with napalm.

Magistrate Geeta Chandan yesterday remanded to prison a West Coast Berbice man who is accused of indecently assaulting a 17-year-old-girl when he appeared to answer to charges at the Fort Wellington Court.

Hold the Front page! Bill eats his words. In spades. Guyana pulled it off.

Thanks to those who felt that I did provoke thought with my last Friday’s offering on “European trafficking in Africans”.

This month of March 2007 is the tenth-year milestone since Cheddi Jagan died in a country he had his initial political grounding in but which he was understandably ambivalent about.

Outgoing President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce (GCC) Captain Gerry Gouveia has told Stabroek Business that the business community cannot hope to proceed with its entrepreneurial pursuits in ‘splendid isolation’ from the currents in the wider society since the social and political developments that occur in Guyana impact directly on the welfare of the business sector.