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The Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest) has declared Guyana open for business after President Bharrat Jagdeo briefed a group of Russian businessmen on the country’s business prospects.

Four pieces of legislation bringing into being the single Caricom domestic space within which Cricket World Cup 2007 will be held were unanimously approved by the National Assembly yesterday and immediately assented to.

The reference to ethnicity in the description of the Guyana stadium in the ICC CWC West Indies 2007 brochure was done by the marketing department of the organisers of the event, Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee said.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is conducting Value-Added Tax (VAT) outreach exercises in Region Three (Essequibo Islands/West Demerara).

A tuberculosis (TB) laboratory which has the capacity to conduct complete testing for the disease has been commissioned at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) is still awaiting a response from the Office of the President on its request to meet President Bharrat Jagdeo on the issue of government’s withdrawal of ministry advertisements from the Stabroek News.

A nine-month-old baby suffered burns to his face during a fire at a Sophia home on Tuesday night, which has left a once homeless family without a roof over their heads yet again.

An accident early yesterday morning during which a car hit a parked truck has left three persons nursing injuries at the hospital Indra Chintan, her 15-year-old daughter Padmini, of Endeavour, Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara (WBD) and the driver of the car were admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) Corporation.

Guyana Publications Inc has assumed responsibility for the publication of the Guyana Review monthly news magazine with effect from 1st January 2007.

The two men accused of breaking into the CCS store on Camp Street and stealing over $1.8M were on Monday granted $150,000 bail each by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan when they made a second court appearance.

Magistrate Fazil Azeez sentenced a repeat offender to prison, after he admitted to breaking and entering and larceny of his sisters’ home, when he yesterday appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court.

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Two prison officers appeared in the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court yesterday accused of negligence in the escape of nine convicted prisoners from the Mazaruni Prison earlier this month.

A farmer from the village of Kuru Kuru was shot and killed early yesterday during an encounter with three bandits who escaped with a significant quantity of cash and jewellery after tying up the man’s family with duct tape.

A man of unsound mind was fatally shot yesterday afternoon by one of two armed policemen whom he reportedly attacked with a bread knife on Robb Street.

Hopes of the police ever finding the killers of activist and talk show host Ronald Waddell have begun to fade one year after they pumped 13 bullets into his body outside his Subryanville home.

Essequibo police suspect that a prisoner who staged a successful escape from the Mazaruni prison may have left his Bethany Mission, Supenaam Creek community and may be nearby in Mashabo.

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.