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The Private Sector Commission (PSC) commends the government for the steps it has taken to bring immediate and tangible relief to consumers who were severely affected by the impact on the cost of living due to the implementation of Value Added and Excise taxes.

Sharmaine Gift, Mark ‘Super Markey’ Harris and Winston ‘Pecky Dread’ Bradshaw, along with Delroy ‘DMD’ Dash who was a no-show, were the first four contenders to be eliminated from the first round of the Carib Soca Monarch competition on Saturday.

Veteran journalist Cecil Griffith was yesterday laid to rest following tributes by colleagues and friends celebrating his life and legacy at the St George’s Cathedral, as they remembered him as a stickler for professional standards.

The Rose Hall, Canje Ground came alive on Saturday night when 18 singers, backed by the Shakti Strings Orchestra, participated in the semi-finals of the 2007 Mash Soca Chutney Competition.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee is yet to receive the report of a board of enquiry that he had established to conduct an official investigation into the circumstances surrounding last month’s jail break at the Mazaruni Prison.

The National Competitiveness Council (NCC) at its inaugural meeting last month, agreed to recruit a director and to urgently establish its secretariat within the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce.

As the investigation into the murder of Mark Ritchie which occurred last week Tuesday at Kuru Kururu on the Linden Highway continues, a suspect took police to a farm cultivated with cannabis in the Kuru Kururu Backlands.

Eighteen-year-old Kevon Washington had his life cut short on Sunday afternoon when he drowned at a mined out lake in Block 22, Wismar, Linden.

Caricom delegates at the Twentieth Special Meeting of the Caricom Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) agreed that the region must make a direct response to the trade challenges it faces.

The government is also seeking “an amicable and honourable solution” to the proposed sale by IAMGOLD of its 70% stake in Omai Bauxite Mining Inc (OBMI) and Omai Services Inc (OSI), a press release from the Office of the Prime Minister said yesterday.

Two men yesterday robbed businesswoman Zabeeda Azeez of $12,000 in cash and jewellery at Lot 55 Stanleytown New Amsterdam Berbice and shot her son in the process.

As part of the measures to improve the quality of the streets of Guyana the Police Traffic Department has implemented four compulsory lectures which persons writing the theoretical examinations are required to take.

A Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) team yesterday visited the Uitvlugt Estate where workers complained about high prices.

Digicel is conducting a recruitment drive for customer care agents to join its newly installed, state-of-the-art centre in Georgetown.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) said yesterday that the blockage which affected the treatment of water at the Shelter Belt has been removed by the East Demerara Water Conservancy Board and that water should be restored by yesterday afternoon.

We asked the man/woman in the street on the West Coast Demerara about the major problems facing them right now.

The Guyana team, fresh off their first outright victory last week in the fourth round takes on top-of-the-table Barbados in the fifth round of the Carib Beer Series at the Georgetown Cricket Club’s Bourda ground today.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) – Laila Ali wasted little time in retaining her WBC and WIBA world titles, knocking out Gwendolyn O’Neil of Guyana at 56 seconds of the first round Saturday in their super middleweight fight.

Perhaps it was a sign of the difficulty the industry faces, particularly in Linden, that the 2007 budget didn’t really say much about bauxite or expectations for the future.

Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) Sports club beat Third Class by 29 runs in a match of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) under-19, limited-overs cricket competition played at the T&HD ground on Saturday.