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The Guyana Revenue Authority has announced a simplified barrels clearance process where personal effects will no longer be examined and transactions should take no more than 10 minutes.

One of the three miners injured in Monday’s tree mishap at an upper Barama River location succumbed while being air-dashed to Georgetown this morning.

(Reuters) – Democratic Representative Charles Rangel, Congress’s former chief tax writer, was convicted by a congressional panel today of ethics violations, many dealing with personal finances.

Mervin Williams, the prisoner who was shot in his attempt to escape from lawful custody outside the Camp Street Prisons on November 11, was today sentenced to two years imprisonment by Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Three police officers accused of taking 301 grams of cannabis from a man and then demanding the sum of $75,000 so that he could avoid prosecution were today remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

The Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) says that Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has apologised to the region for  comments she has made in the past few weeks on assistance to storm-stricken countries in the region.

The non-governmental organization Help and Shelter says it will strenuously and actively oppose any attempt to retain convicted sex felon Dr Vishwamintra Persaud as a medical doctor in Guyana.

Alliance For Change Leader and MP Raphael Trotman is to move a motion at Thursday’s sitting of the National Assembly for the introduction of the long-awaited Freedom of Information Bill.

Gun-toting bandits this morning raided a welding shop and the L and B  shopping centre at 18, Second Street, Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara and killed the owner, Dennis Ramah.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince William is to  marry his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton next year,  Buckingham Palace said today, ending months of media  speculation about the couple’s plans to wed.

Housing Minister, Irfaan Ali yesterday met with squatters of Container City, Front Road East and West Ruimveldt, Laing Avenue and Sideline Dam, Georgetown at St.

Michael Brassington, the Guyanese former president of a luxury charter company whose plane ran a Teterboro Airport runway in 2005 put profits ahead of safety in a scheme to overload jets with cheap fuel, a jury ruled yesterday, according to www.jersey.com.

(Trinidad Express) The country’s top telecommunications companies have both distanced themselves from any involvement in the illegal wiretapping of their customers’ phones.

GALLE, Sri Lanka, (Reuter s) – Opener Chris Gayle  tormented Sri Lanka with a career best 333 as West Indies took  control of the first test before declaring on 580-9 today.

The New York Times is reporting that in a unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court ruled today that illegal immigrants can be eligible for the same reduced tuition at public colleges and universities as legal residents of the state.

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Facebook trotted out an  all-in-one messaging tool today that pools users’ email,  instant and text messages, taking on Google Inc’s and Yahoo  Inc’s popular email platforms.

Police this afternoon said that an arrest warrant for Mark Benschop was  issued by the court on November 03, 2010, after he failed to attend the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court 7 that day.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Protesters in Haiti who  blamed United Nations peacekeepers for the epidemic of cholera  there rioted in two cities today, hurling rocks and setting  fire to a police station, police and eyewitnesses said.

A twenty-six-year-old mechanic was stabbed to death last night at his Den Amstel, West Bank Demarara home allegedly by  his brother following an argument over one thousand dollars, Divisional Commander Balram Persaud said this morning.

A fire claimed the life of a Guyanese national at Penal Rock Road, Barrackpore yesterday, according to the Trinidad Express.