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USAID’s General Development Office Director, Ted Lawrence, and Guyana’s Attorney General, Basil Williams, yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will govern an impact evaluation of USAID’s Youth Empowerment Services (YES) programme.

By its constant and excessive allegations, the State Assets Recovery Unit (SARU) has succeeded in polarising society and presenting the impression that it lacks the political judgement and skills needed to succeed in its mandate.

A fuel supplier was yesterday granted bail by a city magistrate after denying fraudulently converting over $2 million in fuel.

A team from Norway met with Minister of Natural Resources (MNR) Raphael Trotman on Wednesday but a press release issued by his ministry yesterday on the meeting made no mention of the controversial Amaila Falls Hydro Power Project (AFHP) which the public has been expecting answers on.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s first budget outline, calling for a security-heavy realignment of federal spending, drew resistance yesterday from his fellow Republicans in the U.S.

On March 10, a team from GAICO Construction and General Services Inc.

ACCRA, (Reuters) – Ghana’s main opposition party and radio phone-in callers slammed new President Nana Akufo-Addo yesterday for naming an ‘elephant size’ team of 110 ministers and deputies despite a campaign promise to cut government waste.

(Trinidad Guardian) National Security Minister Edmund Dillon on Wednesday express-ed deep concern following the discovery of WPC Nyasha Joseph’s body, but urged the population not to give up hope in the fight against crime.

  (Jamaica Observer) Two police officers who were alleged to be members of a police “death squad” were on Wednesday freed of murder and wounding charges after they were found not guilty in the Home Circuit Court.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The leaders of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee issued a bipartisan statement yesterday rejecting President Donald Trump’s assertion that the Obama administration tapped his phones during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Bandits during the wee hours of Thurs-day robbed the Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary-Agriculture Development Authority (MMA-ADA) at Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice of an undisclosed amount of cash and several computers.

Police Constable Joshua Ali was yesterday charged with a) Breach of Condition of Provisional Licence and b) Driving under the Influence of Alcohol.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) today issued a warning about imposters.

(Trinidad Guardian) National Security Minister Edmund Dillon yesterday expressed deep concern following the discovery of WPC Nyasha Joseph’s body, but urged the population not to give up hope in the fight against crime.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said today the State Department’s current spending was “not sustainable,” and he willingly accepted the “challenge” President Donald Trump had given in proposing to cut more than a quarter of his agency’s budget.

Amid widespread concern that the Rose Hall and Skeldon estates are to be shut down,  Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo yesterday stated that the sugar industry will not be closed but that some factories would be shuttered to improve its prospects.

  The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has been told of Cabinet’s recommendation to suspend the parking meters project and will now consider what steps to take even as Robb Street businesses yesterday implored the President to intervene, citing plummeting sales.

Former Minister of Health Dr. George Norton has jumped to the defence of his successor Volda Lawrence admitting that up to when he left office in early January this year there was a shortage of drugs and he could see the need for the recent $605M emergency supply procured.

Representatives of Chinese company Hong Kong Golden Telecom Limited (HKGT) recently put forward a proposal regarding the payment of the outstanding US$5 million for the sale of government shares in the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) and this will be studied by the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) Board and government before a final decision is made.

Citing damage to key arteries, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) yesterday said that the government will crack down against overloaded mining trucks on interior roads.