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-does not rule out another payout President Irfaan Ali on Friday acknowledged that the $100,000 cash grant rollout is going slower than expected because of verification checks and complications but he also held out the prospect of another payout next year.

-ready for occupancy in January Buddy’s Housing Development and Atlantic Builders Inc.

Guyana’s NewHayven Merchant Bank and Coastal Rim Properties, Inc., a U.S.-based

-guard emptied magazine during shootout A 17-year-old bandit was shot dead following an armed robbery on Friday around 9.10 pm  on Aubrey Barker Road.

-GYEITI Report Some mining sector companies are still not providing information on payments to the state, according to the GYEITI report for 2022.

Sheldon Lynch, who was sentenced to three life terms for raping a 10-year-old girl on multiple occasions, has been granted a retrial by the Guyana Court of Appeal.

-citing harm to environment Two Guyanese, Wintress Morris and Joy Marcus are heading to the courts in an effort to head off a project approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which they say will significantly contribute to greenhouse gas pollution, consequently negatively affecting the planet.

-utility has up to end of Q1 next year President Irfaan Ali has warned that if there is no marked improvement in the Guyana Power and Light’s (GPL) delivery of services to customers by the end of the first quarter of next year, its management will face reprimand.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress passed spending legislation early yesterday in a down-to-the wire burst of activity that will avert a destabilizing government shutdown ahead of the busy holiday travel season.

A gang of men on Friday morning stormed into a Superbet business place located at 51 Castello Housing Scheme, West La Penitence, Georgetown, and chopped a customer and assaulted the co-owner.

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) on Friday announced approval of a US$34.8 million loan to the Geothermal Power Company of Dominica (GPC) to fund the construction of a 10-megawatt (MW) geothermal power plant.

-injured child has health challenges The Cummings Park family left homeless after a fire that killed a toddler is still in desperate need of help and a child injured in the blaze still has health challenges.

(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of Trade and Industry, Paula Gopee-Scoon, is hoping that Angostura’s resumption of exports to China will continue to boost foreign exchange returns to the country.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis yesterday again condemned Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, a day after an Israeli government minister publicly denounced the pontiff for suggesting the global community should study whether the military offensive there constitutes a genocide of the Palestinian people.

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida,  (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday accused Panama of charging excessive rates for use of the Panama Canal and said that if Panama did not manage the canal in an acceptable fashion, he would demand the U.S.

Some 108 small contractors from Region Five have been awarded over $1.5 billion in road contracts as part of a government initiative to empower local contractors, accelerate development, enable widespread road construction and upgrades, and provide over 600 job opportunities to construction workers in the region, a Department of Public Information (DPI) release stated yesterday.   

(Jamaica Gleaner) The world knows him as Roy Augier, but he was born Fitzroy Richard Augier on December 17, 1924, in St Lucia.

(Reuters) – A packed bus collided with a truck and burst into flames early yesterday in Brazil, killing at least 22 people, the fire department said.

Daveanand Dhandharie, of Canje, Berbice, who was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 23 years in prison, had his appeal rejected on Friday by the Guyana Court of Appeal.

(Reuters) – Stellantis STLAM.MI has reversed its decision to lay off about 1,100 employees at an Ohio Jeep plant less than three weeks after the abrupt resignation of Chief Executive Carlos Tavares, the Franco-Italian automaker said late on Saturday.