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Veteran journalist Cecil Griffith, who died on Monday night following a period of hospitalisation, is being remembered as a professional who was intolerant of mediocrity yet was always pleasant.

Though many businesses are still coming to terms with collecting Value Added Tax (VAT), they must now prepare to remit the collected taxes to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and an accounting session to help with this was held yesterday.

Approximately 16,000 public assistance recipients have begun benefiting from government grants and the Human Services Ministry is advising others to visit their respective post offices to uplift their vouchers for the first half of the year.

Guyana moved from ‘Partly Free’ to ‘Free’ in the 2007 Freedom in the World index, a part of the Washington D.C.-based

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues says she is pleased about the progress of the manicole plantation project in Region One.

President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday conferred the Instruments of State Commission and other awards on 23 Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officers.

Three identification cards have been found in Robb Street and were handed over to the management and staff of NP Electronics Inter-national, Lot 45 Robb Street, Lacytown.

Minister of Labour Manzoor Nadir says a Ministerial Committee on HIV/AIDS was on Tuesday launched to educate employees about the infection and the support programmes available to help them to cope with it in the workplace.

Another victim from the two-car East Bank Demerara smash-up that occurred on Sunday, died yesterday at the Georgetown Hospital without regaining consciousness.

An accident at Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo has left a woman in hospital nursing head injuries.

A fire of mysterious origin razed a Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo home yesterday leaving its three occupants, who were not at home at the time homeless and with millions in losses.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds yesterday said veteran journalist Cecil Griffith who passed away on Monday was an eminent son of the soil who has left his “imprint in the spheres of journalism”.

Work is ongoing on the design and layout of the 12-acre Belvedere Industrial Estate in Central Corentyne and this is expected to accelerate development of local businesses.

Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are expected to be able to reduce their financial vulnerability to natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricane through access to the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) with financing of catastrophe insurance coverage from the facility to be established in March.

Two men in a red motor car yesterday robbed a recently opened East Coast of Demerara gas station of a quantity of cash.

Four Amerindian communities will shortly receive titles to their lands and a fifth will be granted an extension as soon as the Lands and Surveys Commission has completed mapping the identified areas, the Government Information Agency (GINA) said in a press release.

Prime Minister Sam Hinds last weekend at Linden commissioned a brand new Wood-Mizer Super LT 40 Hydraulic Mill, acquired by the Region Ten Agriculture and Forest Products Association (RAFPA).

Stakeholders yesterday started to fine-tune a number of initiatives to respond to the challenges and concerns facing the nation’s youth while at the same time creating ways to ensure their participation in the country’s development.

The trial of an Orealla man charged with raping and sodomising a 12-year-old girl opened at the Berbice Assizes yesterday before Justice Rishi Persaud.

The US-bound passenger who attempted to smuggle 11 protected birds out of Guyana changed his plea from not guilty to guilty yesterday and was fined $70,000 by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.