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Veteran journalist and Stabroek News columnist Cecil Griffith died last evening at the St.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee says he is dissatisfied with the conditions under which some members of the Guyana Police Force are working, and added that while the government is in no position to enhance remuneration some effort will be made to improve their situation.

Students and teachers of the Lachmansingh Primary School had to scamper for cover during last week when they were attacked by bees that are nested in a tyre between clumps of bushes on the school’s fence.

Yesterday, even as some city businesses were complying fully with the new list of Value Added Tax (VAT) zero-rated items, others lagged behind.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee said the agreement for the US$20 million Inter-American Development Bank loan would be signed this week, paving the way for the implementation of the citizens’ security programme, which includes the reform of the police force.

Twelve persons won prizes in the Dorado Speed Swim Club raffle which was drawn at the Colgrain Poolside on Sunday.

A new Chinese company in Guyana intends to focus on ‘finished’ lumber and is investing US$4.5M in a wood-processing plant to process logs cut from the Jaling concession.

US authorities have refused Guyanese drug accused businessman Roger Khan’s request for a laptop computer stating that it would be a potential security breach at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre (MCC).

In an article in yesterday’s Chronicle headlined “Abuse of press freedom – responsible reporting lacking” Dr Prem Misir stated that the Stabroek News’s limited circulation and limited reach drove the Government Information Agency (GINA) to withdraw the placement of advertisements from that newspaper.

Six of the persons involved in the two-car, East Bank Demerara accident, which claimed the life of a 64-year-old woman on Sunday evening, are in the hospital receiving treatment.

A baby boy was yesterday burned to death at his Leguan, Essequibo River home.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday held discussions with Russian President Vladimir Putin and RUSAL owner Oleg Deripaska at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russian news agency Itar-Tass said.

High Court Judge Claudette La Bennett is currently presiding in the case of a man who is accused of killing his partner nearly three years ago at D’Urban Street.

A Surinamese national who is facing a charge for possession of ammunition was slapped with a charge of escaping from lawful custody when he appeared before Magistrate Chandra Sohan at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court on Friday.

President Bharrat Jagdeo says he is dissatisfied with the education bureaucracy and says he had suggested a long time ago that the Ministry of Education collaborate with the National Centre for Education Resource Development (NCERD) to prepare special learning programmes to boost the sector.

Local wildlife dealers and trappers are to meet later in the week to discuss proposals on how the embargo on wild caught birds by the European Union (EU) can be mitigated.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud says that though an investigation into allegations of transfer pricing is still ongoing, there has not been any evidence to suggest that companies here are engaging in this.

A woman is dead and two persons were critically injured after a speeding car crashed into another one on the Hutsonville Public Road, East Bank Demerara yesterday around 6.30 pm.

In the six months that it has been operational, the Cancer Care Institute at the Georgetown Public Hospital has seen a continuous flow of patients.

The still traumatised children of Agnes Henry and Abdool Hafeez constantly talk about the night their father “kill heself” and at night they are terrified, their grandmother Bibi Shahidan Khan says.