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  • Terror on Thursday

    By Miranda La Rose | Sunday, October 12, 2008 | 15 Comments

    Terror on Thursday

    ‘Rupununi uprising’ hostage remembers the siege Almost 40 years after the Rupununi uprising, the bloody insurrection in which six people were killed when armed ranchers overran Lethem, Steve Sagar can still remember the heat of the sun on his face... Read more »

  • Medor explains estrangement from mother

    By Staff | Sunday, October 12, 2008 | 6 Comments

    ‘I want to take care of her,’ he says What could have kept a son and mother separated for more than 40 years? Sylvester Medor who recently returned to Guyana for the second time in two years in search of his mother said that when he was a child, she... Read more »

  • Dead, injured crash victims still unidentified

    By Staff | Sunday, October 12, 2008 | 0 Comments

    A man died shortly after he was hit by a speeding minibus on the Mc Doom Public Road around 7.30 pm on Friday. The victim who was clad in a cream long-sleeve shirt and brownish coloured pants and was of Indian descent, had not been identified up to press... Read more »

  • Local govt reform on the rocks

    By Staff | Saturday, October 11, 2008 | 20 Comments

    Local govt reform on the rocks

    Corbin seeks meeting with President The main opposition PNCR yesterday accused the ruling PPP/C of trying to arbitrarily abandon the local government reform process and party leader Robert Corbin has written President Bharrat Jagdeo requesting an urgent... Read more »

  • Rice board fumes over $26M in rubber cheques

    By Staff | Saturday, October 11, 2008 | 14 Comments

    The Guyana Rice Develop-ment Board (GRDB) yesterday announced it would support legal action against the Mahaicony Rice Mills Ltd (MRL), after some cheque payments to farmers for their first crop were not honoured at the bank. In a statement issued yesterday,... Read more »

  • US nabs traders over Guyana Gold Corp shares

    By Staff | Saturday, October 11, 2008 | 21 Comments

    Four men have been nabbed in a sting by US federal agents for trying to bribe stock brokers to buy shares in Guyana Gold Corp., a US over-the-counter company. According to the Vancouver Sun, John Zanic, a stock promoter, was arrested in Las Vegas on September... Read more »

  • EU readying punitive taxes on Guyana - IPS

    By Staff | Saturday, October 11, 2008 | 12 Comments

    While President Bharrat Jagdeo is still holding out against signing the European Union (EU) trade deal in Barbados on Wednesday, EU foreign ministers are expected to meet Monday to agree a document which would pave the way for the EU to impose punitive... Read more »

  • East Bank couple terrorized, robbed

    By Staff | Saturday, October 11, 2008 | 19 Comments

    An East Bank Demerara (EBD) couple was on Thursday night terrorized by two men who came calling at their business for an aerated drink but instead confronted them with a gun and cutlass before fleeing with cash. Errol Ming, 56, of Golden Grove, EBD who... Read more »

  • Waini miner in tantalizing mineral find

    By Staff | Saturday, October 11, 2008 | 6 Comments

    A miner at Waini in the North West District has found columbite- tantalite in his concession and will start to mine for the mineral on a larger scale shortly. The mineral was mined here in the 1950s in the Upper Mazaruni area and has always attracted... Read more »

  • Pit latrine death

    By Staff | Saturday, October 11, 2008 | 15 Comments

    Santa Rosa to meet on building new sanitary block A meeting that was planned for yesterday by residents of Santa Rosa on a proper sanitary block for their school was postponed to Monday after the Minister of Education said he was unable to attend. The... Read more »

  • Youth remanded over $160,000 gold chain snatch

    By Staff | Saturday, October 11, 2008 | 4 Comments

    A 19-year-old who allegedly snatched a gold chain from a woman was remanded to prison on Monday when he appeared before Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court. Jason Lawrence of Lot 7 Broad Street, Charlestown, pleaded not... Read more »

  • Kwebana gets $6.8M grant for citrus farm

    By Staff | Saturday, October 11, 2008 | 2 Comments

    Kfw Small Grants Projects recently awarded Kwebana Village a $6.8M grant to buy equipment and other materials for citrus farming. According to a press release from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the German Government grant will promote more... Read more »