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A Brazilian man was killed while working at a money transfer and gold trading and mining equipment store in Mahdia, sources said. Police identified the dead man as 46-year old Danderlei Kienen of Light Street, Georgetown. Investigators said an undisclosed quantity of cash and gold were stolen from the business enterprise at 111 Miles, Mahdia. The suspected mastermind was caught ...

(GHANA WEB).-A Guyanese fishing vessel, MV ATTIYAH Georgetown, carrying more than 400 kilogrammes of a substance believed to be cocaine has been arrested by the Western Naval Command in territorial waters of Ghana. The stuff is said to have a street value of about $50 million. It had been concealed in the vessel which sailed from Guyana with five crew ...

The Guyana government has pulled a deal with a Canada-based Guyanese to set up a US$30 million waste recycling plant, buckling under revelations by the media. Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon on Wednesday told a news conference that Cabinet decided to scrap executing the Memorandum of Understanding with Natural Globe Inc. He said that move essential puts ...

Public Servants are to be handed at least a five percent retroactive pay-hike for this year, amid renewed bickering between government and the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) over the absence of negotiations. Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon said government would soon announce a wage and salary increase for public servants but it was unlikely to exceed the 2013 national ...

The residence of Yvonne Pearson, Adviser to the Minister of Amerindian Affairs, was Wednesday afternoondestroyed by fire. Pearson, a former Chairman of the National Toshaos Council, was not at the Vryheid’s Lust North home when the blaze started. She said she lost all her belongings including important documents such as her birth and marriage certificates. Pearson said she did not ...

Ghana’s Western Naval Command on Tuesday arrested a foreign vessel carrying 21 bags of substances suspected to be cocaine, Ghanian news media reported on Tuesday. The vessel, “ATIYAH, George-Town”, according to a source, was travelling from Guyana arrested and was escorted by Ghana Naval Ship Yaa Asantewaa to the Sekondi Naval Base. The five men on board the ship together ...

The rice industry continues its outstanding performance, hitting an all time high this year, surpassing the fixed targets, as well as the 2012 figure by over 107,000 tonnes. Rice production for 2013 topped 529,384 tonnes exceeding the 422,057 tonnes produced in 2012, thereby increasing by 25.43 percent. According to figures provided by the Ministry of Agriculture, both crops for 2013 ...

(EMIRATES 24/7).-Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry today pledged its support to the visiting Guyana President, Honorable Donald Rabindranauth Ramotar and his high-level delegation for setting up a Guinean commercial office representing the Caribbean region in Dubai. Hamad Buamim, President and CEO, Dubai Chamber, who received the Guyanese President at the Chamber premises, stated that this visit represents a turning ...

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) has expanded its Volunteer Corps (VC) to Region Nine – Upper Takutu/Upper Essequibo- with assistance from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Government Information Agency (GINA) said. On Wednesday November 13, 2013, the CDC VC Officially launched its Region 9 arm. The registered members comprising persons from North, South and Central Rupununi, were issued ...

Cocaine seizures across CARICOM Member States, training of police personnel and the provision of fast boats to help curtail maritime criminal activities are among the successes of the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI), according to a statement issued by the Caricom Secretariat. These were outlined by Co-chairs of the Fourth Meeting of the CBSI Commission Ms Astonia Browne of the ...