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If former president Donald Ramotar had signed a lease authorising the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre Inc.

Should the PPP/C be returned to government, it will reverse a number of decisions made by the current administration, including the Value Added Tax (VAT) being placed on some food items and medical supplies and the hike in rental fees for farmers by the Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary-Agriculture Development Authority (MMA-ADA), opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo said on Thursday.

A man was shot twice by bandits on Friday afternoon during an attempted robbery, while he and another man were making a deposit at the Citizens Bank night deposit at Thirst Park, Mandela Avenue.

LYON, France (Reuters) – French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron yesterday called on US scientists, academics and entrepreneurs at odds with Donald Trump’s administration to move to France.

A man who burglarised a house at Rose Hall, Corentyne on Thursday evening and escaped with approximately $500,000 in valuables, including jewellery, was later nabbed by police with the stolen booty.

Two committees are to be set up to work on Guyana’s proposal to establish a law school next year in keeping with a requirement of the Council of Legal Education (CLE), Attorney General Basil Williams SC said last Friday.

MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday that peace negotiations with Maoist-led rebels would be scrapped, five months after both sides resumed talks to end nearly five decades of conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people.

LONDON (Reuters) – Several thousand people demonstrated outside the US embassy in London yesterday against President Donald Trump and his temporary ban on refugees and nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Basil Williams SC said on Friday that applications for the post of Solicitor-General (SG) were received from persons living in Guyana and abroad, and that some attention will now have to be paid to offering higher salaries.

The government says it is considering a renewable one-year concessionary agreement on fuel and equipment for miners and it defended the manner in which it has addressed the industry on recent tax reforms.

WASHINGTON/DAMASCUS, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump today denounced a judge who lifted a travel ban for citizens of seven mainly Muslim countries, vowing that his government would reinstate it as affected travelers scrambled for tickets to try to quickly enter the United States.

(Trinidad Guardian) No way – no how. That’s how some Muslims groups’ reacted to Government’s proposed tough anti-terrorism legislation revealed by Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi on Thursday.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Citizens of seven mainly Muslim countries banned from the United States by President Donald Trump can resume boarding U.S.-bound

Hundreds yesterday lined Regent Street, opposite City Hall, to demonstrate against the implementation of the metered parking system but what was intended to be a silent, apolitical protest by the Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM), saw tempers flare after a hostile counter-protest was organised by those backing the project.

Against the backdrop of an escalating row over paid parking, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) yesterday announced that property rates will go up by 10% – the first hike since 1998 – and it is projecting an $833M deficit for 2017.

Amidst a flood of criticism over his recent attacks on Deputy Solicitor-General Prithima Kissoon, Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs Basil Williams SC yesterday announced that she has been asked to go on 72 days of administrative leave to facilitate a probe into her handling of cases, particularly those involving members of the PPP.

Guyana did not benefit from over $2B in concessions that were granted to four investors, Baishanlin International Forest Development Inc, Vaitarna Holdings Private Inc, Diamond Tropical Wood Products Inc and Zhonghao Shipyards Inc, according to a forensic audit of the Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest), which has said that the failure to monitor such grants has made large scale abuse by investors likely. 

A forensic audit of the operations of Go-Invest has discovered that the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Keith Burrowes, without the authorisation of the Board of Directors, received cash advances totalling more than $3.2M and also instructed that his personal driver who was not an employee be paid.

Freed Bartica massacre accused Roger Simon, called ‘Goat Man,’ was yesterday asked to post a total of $900,000 bail for his release after Justice Roxane George SC found that the remaining charges pending against him from the attack are bailable.

Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) officials and heavily armed policemen yesterday morning descended on the Kingston offices of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) as part of a wider probe into financial irregularities.