Essequibo labourer gets one year over cocaine
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Fadil Shaw called ‘George’, a 36-year-old labourer of Lot 24 Three Friends, Essequibo Coast, was yesterday jailed for one year over the possession of 1.1 grammes of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.

Citrus vending in a municipal market

Record citrus prices elsewhere in the region a likely opportunity for local farmers
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Whereas consumers in Guyana can rely on an all-year-round supply of citrus fruit at prices that tend to be vulnerable to adjustments that trigger sharp cuts in consumer purchases,, other countries, some of them here in the Caribbean, must, periodically, face much heftier price hikes that can create seasonal separation of consumers from what, in a number of instances, are their favourite fruits.

IRS fires 6,000 employees as Trump slashes US government

(Reuters) – A tearful executive at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service told staffers on Thursday that about 6,000 employees would be fired, a person familiar with the matter said, in a move that would eliminate roughly 6% of the agency’s workforce in the midst of the busy tax-filing season.