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Other flours- cassava, sweet potato and breadfruit- are increasingly being regarded as major weapons in the fight against diabetes and other non—communicable diseases, according to a top agricultural expert. International Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA) Representative to Barbados, Ena Harvey said her organisation was pushing the use of high-fibre root crops in the Caribbean as part of a regional ...

President and Commander-in-Chief- of the Armed Forces, Brigadier David Granger Sunday declared that November 1, this year and every year hereafter, will be observed throughout the nation as ‘Defence Force Day”. The President was at the time delivering message at a church service held in commemoration of the Guyana Defence Force’s (GDF) 50th anniversary at the National Cultural Centre. “The ...

A 46-year old Guyanese man was Saturday arrested at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport allegedly with several kilogrammes of cocaine in his possession, a senior official of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said. A senior anti-drug agent said four kilogrammes of cocaine were found in false walls of the man’s suitcase, shortly before he was about to board a flight ...

The Head of the University of Guyana’s (UG) Law Department, Sheldon Mc Donald was injured in a vehicular accident Friday night, according to well-placed sources. The incident occurred inside Success Village, East Coast Demerara. Mc Donald, a Jamaican who once worked at the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretariat, sustained injuries to chest and other parts of his body. He was admitted ...

The recently elected Guyana government has confirmed that the 70 bars of gold stolen off a Guyana-registered vessel originated from this country, and wants the United States (US) to help find the smuggler, Governance Minister, Raphael Trotman said. “I don’t think that there is any doubt that the gold came from Guyana,” he said. “So when we were dealing in ...

The owner of a city boutique was shot and injured early Saturday night during a robbery shortly after he left his business premises in Kitty, Georgetown. Carl Inniss, the proprietor of Street Styles Boutique, was shot to his right leg and lashed to his face by th bandits. The incident occurred at about 7 PM in the vicinity of Barr ...

Two men wanted for two separate murders are among four persons arrested Friday. Investigators said they are arrested a “prime suspect” in the murder of Akeem Yorrick of Plasiance Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara on August 05, 2015. The other person arrested was wanted for the murder of Sanasie Lewis on September 04, 2015 at the Ghetto Flex Hangout Bar ...

Calls ratcheted up Friday for government to take steps to put in place systems to effectively combat a range of financial crimes and reduce the cost of doing business The Private Sector Commission (PSC) said the recent passage of amendments to the 2009 Anti-Money Laundering and Countering of Financing Terrorism Act by the new government was not enough and that ...

Government has signalled its commitment to aggressively tackle the issue of Trafficking In Persons (TIP), and as such, the Minister in the Ministry of Social Protection, Simona Broomes, said that there will be a total restructuring of the TIP unit. During an interview with the Government Information Agency (GINA), Broomes explained that the unit currently has a staff complement of ...

Three years after a promising oil well offshore Guyana was capped due to safety concerns, the companies are again examining ways of tapping that reserve to see if it is commercially viable, the Deputy Commissioner of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), Newell Dennison announced Friday. He was at the time delivering a presentation at a two-day conference on ...