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The price for Banks DIH shares traded on the local stock exchange has increased and Chairman Clifford Reis has said it is an indication of the confidence of investors in the company’s performance, a Banks DIH press release stated.

The Canadian High Commission formally presented the newly upgraded food processing facilities to the Helping Hand Women’s Group in St Ignatius, Region Nine on Thursday.

Residents of Lusignan East ‘Double Road’ are blaming Courtney Benn Contracting Services Limited (CBCSL) for the rapid deterioration of their road, due to the amount of heavy-duty vehicles traversing the area on a daily basis.

Clerk of the National Assembly Sherlock Isaacs says the task of preparing the Order Paper for sittings of the National Assembly is his and not the Parliamentary Management Committee, as posited by former Minister of Finance in the PNC administration Carl Greenidge.

President Donald Ramotar and leaders of the two Opposition parties in Parliament met at the Office of the President yesterday and those engagements have been described as devoid of roadblocks and non-contentious as they continued to speak on a range of issues just days hours before Friday’s sitting of Parliament Up to last night, this newspaper was awaiting the release of an official joint statement from Presidential Advisor on Governance Gail Teixeira, who said that she had been awaiting clearance from all the parties for the statement’s release.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – Russia won a promise from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad yesterday to bring an end to bloodshed in Syria, but Western and Arab states acted to isolate Assad further after activists and rebels said his forces killed over 100 in the city of Homs.

APNU is calling on the government to implement a national strategy to break the cycle of flooding that has been repeatedly plaguing all the regions of the country in recent years.

MALE, (Reuters) – President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, widely credited with bringing democracy to the Indian Ocean archipelago, resigned yesterday after weeks of opposition protests erupted into a police mutiny and what an aide said amounted to a coup.

Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Robert Persaud met with Lethem and St.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Russia’s U.N. Ambassador yesterday denounced as lies a report that he had threatened Qatar with annihilation during an argument with the Gulf state’s prime minister over a draft Security Council resolution on Syria that was vetoed by Moscow.

Guyana’s delegation at the 18th Meeting of Latin America and Caribbean Environmental Ministers, in Quito, Ecuador from January 31 to February 3, has been engaged in intense discussions, focusing particularly  on crafting a joint Latin American and Caribbean vision for the upcoming Rio+20 follow-up conference scheduled for June 2012.

SALVADOR, Brazil, (Reuters) – A toll of 115 murders and widespread looting, assaults and vandalism in the past week are roiling Brazil’s third-biggest city, casting doubts over upcoming carnival celebrations and raising questions about security ahead of the 2014 World Cup.

Scotiabank is now offering a line of credit called ScotiaLine to customers in Guyana at what it described as a low introductory rate at 9.99%.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Two Ecuadorean journalists have been sentenced to pay $1 million each in damages for libeling socialist President Rafael Correa, who faces mounting criticism he uses courts to muzzle media.

(Reuters) – Farmers in developing nations will sow more biotech crops than those in the industrialized world for the first time this year, with Brazil leading the charge, according to a report issued yesterday that showed steady growth in the use of genetically modified seeds.

(Trinidad Guardian) Dr Petronella Manning-Alleyne, sister of former prime minister Patrick Manning, claims drugs being used by cardiac patients in T&T could be putting them at risk.

Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) will soon benefit from implementation support following a Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Guyana and The Energy and Research Institute (TERI) headed by Dr.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Grace Kennedy Group CEO Don Wehby said the conglomerate intends to earn a half of its profit from outside of Jamaica as it moves to become a global consumer group within the next eight years.

SAN DIEGO, Calif., (Reuters) – U.S. authorities are building a steel and concrete barrier 300 feet (90 meters) out into the Pacific Ocean south of San Diego to curb dangerous attempts by illegal immigrants and smugglers to slip through the breakers to California.

At about 0200h yesterday, police say that miner Aaron Hunter, 38 years, of Jawalla Village, Upper Mazaruni River, was shot to his left knee during an argument with another man at Jawalla Village, Region Seven (Cuyuni/Mazaruni).