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Visiting Guyanese executed

By Zoisa Fraser

A 63-year-old US-based Guyanese man was gunned down in his South Ruimveldt business place just before 8 last night by a lone gunman in what appears to be an execution-style killing.

Vincent Williams who at the time of his death was in his supermarket/general store located at Lot 168 Sunflower Circle, South Ruimveldt Park, was shot once in the middle of the chest. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Hospital at 8:05 pm.

Reports are that Williams, who only returned home on Tuesday and his girlfriend, were in the store when the gunman came. It is not clear exactly what transpired there but the man was reportedly given a bag with money but it was tossed aside. The gunman then shot Williams in his chest at point-blank range. Added to that, the gunman made no attempt to remove the gold rings that Williams was wearing. He then fled on the foot. Read more

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Morgan and Williams to attend Beijing Junior Olympic Camp

By Kiev Chesney

Caribbean long distance champion runner Alika Morgan and champion cyclist Geron Williams have been named by the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) to participate in the ‘Youth Create Future’ Camp which will take place from August 6-17 in Beijing, China.

Chef-de-Mission of the GOA, Noel Adonis, said yesterday that each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was required to select two of their country’s top athletes to participate in a 12-day Olympic Youth Camp during the Olympic Games.

Adonis said that the athletes will be given a chance to experience some of the Chinese culture, witness the torch relay, as well as to interact with athletes from all over the world under the theme of `Harmony and Tolerance.’

He added that though the athletes would not have a chance to witness all the events of the Olympic Games, (August 8-24) they will have a chance to view some of the events as part of the programme.
Morgan and Williams were selected on the basis of their success in their respective sports disciplines.

The two athletes were selected by the executive members of the GOA after being short-listed by various sports federations.
President of the GOA, K.A Juman Yassin, who recently returned from a head of association’s meeting in Beijing, said that he was pleased to announce the 2008 summer games were on schedule and that all participating countries have agreed against a boycott.

Both Morgan and Williams are fifth form students currently preparing for the Caribbean Examinations Councils (CSEC) examinations.

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As rising prices loom large…

Region Ten pushes for greater food security

The pursuit by farmers in Region Ten of greater self-sufficiency in agricultural produce in the wake of the floods in 2005 and 2006 has begun to pay important dividends as the country braces itself to face steadily rising food prices.

Linden Economic Advancement Pro-gramme (LEAP) agriculture and economics expert Oswald Kwamina has told Stabroek Business that the region has already realized around 70 per cent self-sufficiency in some fresh fruit, vegetables and poultry and that increased agricultural production has already begun to pay dividends in terms of prices that now compare favourably with prices in Georgetown.

Region Ten’s focus on growing more of the food that it consumes assumes a particular significance in the context of government’s call for a countrywide increase in food production and Kwamina told Stabroek Business that the region was now a major producer of pak choi, tomatoes, bora, cucumber, water melons and lettuce and that the region had also recorded a significant increase in poultry production. Read more »

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