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(GHANAWEB.COM).- Ghana’s Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Barbara Serwaa Asamoah has indicated that government will soon commence the importation of timber into the country. Serwaa Asamoah disclosed this at the 5th edition of National Forest Forum-Ghana (NFF-G) in Dodowa on Thursday. She said timber products on the domestic market were not adequate. The forum, which was attended by Civil ...

A 26-year old woman was killed in a gruesome accident on the Non Pariel Main Road, East Coast Demerara when a car slammed into her after the driver avoided hitting another female. The victim has been identified as 26-year old Navita Ishram of Non Pariel. Police said the woman was standing on the road when she was struck down by ...

The Guyana Youth and Student Movement, the youth arm of the Peoples National Congress Reform today (9th August 2014) held it Biennial Congress at the Party’s Headquarters Sophia. The Congress was held under the theme “One Movement, One Partnership, One Nation,” the PNCR said in a statement. In his farewell address to congress outgoing National Chairman Mr. Christopher Jones MP ...

Guyana’s economic growth this year is expected to drop to 4.5 percent due to a decline in gold declaration, driven largely by a slump in the international price for the precious metal, Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh said Saturday. He said the economy was now projected to record a 4.5 percent overall growth in 2014, down from the 5.6 percent ...

Brazil’s Vice Consul to Guyana , Theotonio  Santa Cruz de Oliveira died Saturday morning following a vehicular collision in Lethem that also left the daughter of a top Region Nine official and her children in a critical conditon, multiple sources have confirmed. Residents in the southern Guyanese township said the junior diplomat was driving the Vice Consulate’s car when it ...

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and the Ministry of Agriculture have launched a crackdown on fishing vessels that are working illegally on the country’s coastal and inland waterways. The army said operators of nine fishing vessels, felt the brunt of law enforcement, when the GDF Coast Guard, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries Division conducted a joint maritime ...

CARICOM’s Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) has approved a Strategy and Plan to reduce the number of adolescent pregnancies in each country of the English- and Dutch speaking Caribbean by at least 20 %, over the five year period 2014 – 2019. The plan was developed by a multi-sectoral and multidisciplinary Regional Task Force led by UNFPA in ...

The Guyana Police Force on Friday reported 10 percent spike in murders and 16 percent increase in robbery under arms but an overall eight percent drop in serious crimes for the first seven months of 2014 compareed to the same period last year. Following is a summary of the latest crime statistics The total number of reports of serious crimes ...

A tractor driver on Friday  remained in police custody in connection with the death of a man who was travelling on trailer at Kwakwani, Berbice River. Police identified the dead man as Imtiaz Hussain. Investigatoers said that about 9 O’clock Thursday night, he fell off the rail of the trailer and was run over by the vehicle. He was pronounced ...

Despite strident demands by the two parliamentary opposition parties for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to be reformed, they said Friday that they have no other option but to go into early general elections without most of their demands being unfulfilled. With the delivery of the Alliance For Change (AFC)-sponsored no-confidence motion to the National Assembly on Thursday and the ...