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Maternal and Child Health Unit will be launching  the PRENEVAR (pneumococcal 13- valent conjugate vaccine).  PCV13 replaces a previous conjugate vaccine (PCV7), which protected against 7 pneumococcal types. In Guyana, this will replace the PCV 7 which was in use from 2009.

The new pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) protects against 13 strains of pneumococcal infections. These bacteria types are responsible for most severe pneumococcal infections among children.

 Regent Street, Georgetown – The police today are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at late last night Monday at Regent and Bourda Streets, Georgetown, during which huckster Sanjay Persaud of…

 Meadow Bank – East Bank Demerara – 23 year old Mark Greene, a labourer of Meadow Bank Squatting Area, Georgetown, was stabbed to the neck by another man after an argument erupted at the Meadow Bank Wharf.

 Essequibo –Acting on information received, the police arrested, 18-year-old Brazilian national at Itaballi.

Georgetown- Faced with a troubling year of poor performance, financial problems, strikes and infrastructure troubles, the Guyana Sugar Corporation now has a priority to increase cane availability with expanding acreage until cultivation along with higher levels of participation by private cane farmers. Finance Minister Ashnie Singh in his budget outlined a series of interventions to enable the survival and viability of the corporation. Among these are the acquisition of mechanized cane harvesters, cane loaders, tractors and haulage units.

 Georgetown – The Government has budgeted $345 million dollars of the $14 billion allocated for the health sector , for training activities. The money will be used for 250 professional nurses being trained and 140 clinical and technical staff, while over 280 students in various health disciplines are currently in training.

Georgetown- "Crime is a poverty issue, and nobody seems to care about the unemployment figure, even the Minister of Finance in his budget speech failed to talk about it", the words of Chartered Accountant and Economist Christopher Ram on the issue of security and economy. He explained that if you examine the National Insurance Scheme statistics, there are now few people in employment compared to the last decade. Ram said that he is not sure where the tomorrow Guyana is as alluded to by the Finance Minister during his budget speech.

Waterloo Street, Georgetown- For the first time ever in Guyana’s history the personal tax rate is higher than the Corporative tax. This is according to Economist Christopher Ram speaking to CaribbeanTrakker today on the mega budget unveiled yesterday.

 Georgetown – Long serving party activist, Mrs. Joan Baveghems, has been extracted from the Top Up List of the PNCR/1G List of Candidates for the 2006 General and Regional Elections, to fill the vacancy in the National Assembly created by the death of the late, Mr. Winston Murray.