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Over 16,000 public assistance recipients countrywide will soon be able to collect their grants from various post offices, according to Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security Trevor Thomas.

Former Region Three Chairman Esau Dookie has taken up a position to head the Saraswat Primary School after receiving a letter of introduction from the Teaching Service Commission (TSC), despite opposition from the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU).

Chairman and Managing Director of Banks DIH Limited Clifford Reis said that the Value Added Tax (VAT) would cost the company between $200 to $300M per year and that the “jury is still out” on the new tax regime’s revenue neutrality.

Relatives of a 21-year-old man who succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital six days after jumping into the Lamaha Canal popularly called the `Blacka’ believe that negligence by the hospital’s staff had a big part to play in his demise.

The Iwokrama International Centre and Conservation International have scheduled a public viewing of An Inconvenient Truth on Thursday, January 25, in the Rupununi Room, Hotel Tower at 6 pm.

The government, with the assistance of international agencies, has spent approximately $5 billion to repair damaged infrastructure and improve drainage and irrigation (D&I) capabilities countrywide since the disastrous flood of December 2004/January2005.

The Guyana Government has shot itself in the foot with a very bad political move that smacks of the old, discredited ‘Burnhamist doctrine’ of the late President Forbes Burnham which had reached into all aspects of governance, including crude interferences and worse, in the functioning of the country’s media.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has established a board of enquiry to conduct an official investigation into the circumstances surrounding the jail break at the Mazaruni Prison on Friday January 12.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday remanded to prison an 18-year-old man accused of having carnal knowledge of a 14-year-old girl.

Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan remanded to prison a man accused of larceny when he yesterday appeared to answer to the charge at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

A post-mortem examination conducted on Andrew Kissoon revealed that he was shot four times.

The body of an employee of the National Communications Network (NCN) was on Thursday night discovered at the back of the building face-down inside a drain.

President Bharrat Jagdeo apologised to the leaders of the local religious community for the disparaging remarks made by two government ministers at the January 11 sitting of parliament, according to the head of the Guyana Council of Churches (GCC).

The Committee for the defence of the Constitution has moved to the High Court against the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and its members over the status of five High Court judges, two of whom have been acting for more than five years in that capacity.

The Jamaica Gleaner daily yesterday in an editorial headlined “President Jagdeo’s shame” accused the Guyana government of a “vulgar and unworthy act of reprisal” in pulling government advertisements from the Stabroek News.

Officials of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security will soon launch an investigation into the recent reports of child marriages.

Amid the furore over VAT, the government yesterday tabled a bill in the National Assembly to enable additions to the list of zero-rated and exempt items by way of order but a bid to have it taken through all of its stages and passed was rebuffed.

Mayor Hamilton Green recently attended the inauguration of the Minetta Foundation in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T).

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is mourning the passing of councillor Randolph Harris and remembers him as unflinching and dedicated to the welfare of the city.

The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sport Club (RHTYSC) donated a quantity of items to the Berbice Dharm Shala Senior Citizens’ Home at the launching of its 2007 $5M charity programme.