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Government would be building two more packaging facilities at Charity and in Berbice to cater for the export of fruits and vegetables under its agricultural diversification project.

More than fifty years have passed with barely a mention of an important moment in Guyanese history.

The National Psychiatric Hospital is a priority hospital for reconstruction and the government is now engaged in mobilising funds for this, Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy has said.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Thursday hosted a workshop on Value-Added Tax (VAT) for Region Two residents to inform them of the penalties attached to filing late returns.

Internationally recognized credit and debit cards can now be used in Guyana with the introduction of “full” international connectivity for the cards by Scotiabank at its ATMs.

A number of fruit vendors around the city have been given an ultimatum by the Mayor and City Council to make their stalls attractive and clean or they might not be able to vend during the Cricket World Cup season.

Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Edward Collins on Thursday said that preparations to court-martial officers who might have been involved in the disappearance of 30 AK-47 rifles from Camp Ayanganna are moving apace.

Following its annual conference, the Guyana Police Force says it will aggressively pursue the reduction of illegal firearms and apprehension of wanted persons among other things high on its agenda.

A 23-year-old Guyanese college student was seriously injured in a car accident involving a vehicle driven by a drunk police officer.

Two Guyanese suffered serious injuries in a fire in Richmond Hill on Saturday.

The People’s National Congress Reform-1G is disheartened that the 2006 national budget has not addressed the country’s foreign policy concerns and has cited the need for a well thought out diplomatic effort aimed at securing national interests.

As was reported in The Scene in our edition yesterday, two of Aubrey Williams’s five murals which face the tarmac at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, have been mutilated in order to accommodate the design imperatives of the restructured terminal.

Barbados continued their dominance of Guyana by securing a comfortable six-wicket win in the final round of the KFC Cup regional one day tournament played at the Georgetown Cricket Club, Bourda, yesterday.

A big upset occurred yesterday at the National Park during the 35-lap feature cycle race when 14-year-old Christopher Holder defeated reigning ‘champ’ Marlon ‘Fishy’ Williams who managed a third place finish.

Trinidad and Tobago businessman Symdeo Gosine injected an undisclosed amount of cash into the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) coffers on Friday, and pledged to continue making monetary contributions every month.

(The Arts Journal, Vol 2, No.2, March 2006, Guest Editor Gemma Robinson, (General Editor, Ameena Gafoor), Georgetown : The Arts Forum, 142p) The two most recent issues of The Arts Journal, together, make an emphatic statement about the motivating ambitions of this literary periodical and where it is today.

Today, we will conclude the tapeworm saga. You have been tuning in, same time/same newspaper, to the many episodes of this true-life drama.

I was fortunate to work at the Public Buildings for four years, and as part of my Nostalgia series to preserve my memories of my beautiful Guyana, I am compelled to share this insight of the workings of the government during the period of our evolution towards independence.

I read that I should check my child’s eyes yearly. She sees everything clearly.

Veselin Topalov, Levon Aronian and Teimour Radjabov finished in a three-way tie for first place in the CORUS Chess Tournament which took place in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, from January 13-28, 2007.