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Controversy continues to envelop the Sussex Street Drug Bond, as the Ministry of Public Health has budgeted $150M for the full year’s rent for  2017 when it was expected that the government would negotiate a lower rental and eventually exit the much criticised arrangement.

The $250B budget presented to the National Assembly on November 28, 2016 by Finance Minister Winston Jordan was passed yesterday after a week of speeches and another of gruelling scrutiny of the estimates.

Charlestown woman, Angela Vigilance, was yesterday sentenced to three years in prison at the end of a trial that found her guilty of being in possession of 120 grammes of cannabis.

Visitors to the Giftland Mall will be expected to pay a $1,000 “redeemable concession fee” upon entry on December 23 and 24 respectively.

President David Granger yesterday said that Guyana is prepared to prove its border case against  Venezuela at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, according to a release from the Ministry of the Presidency.

A 78-year-old Guyanese man living in a stable in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) may just get his wish to return to Guyana before Christmas with the help of the Trinidad-based Guyana Agency for Development Affairs (GADA).

The driver of a motorcar was yesterday arrested by the police at the Aroaima checkpoint in Region 10 while two others managed to escape following the discovery of a revolver and a quantity of narcotics in the vehicle.

All passengers who were destined for Guyana and New York via Dynamic Airways over the past weekend have successfully been transported to their destinations, spokesman for the airline, Gerry Gouveia related last evening.

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan on Tuesday expressed confidence in having the 911 Emergency numbers fully functioning by the end of January 2017.

Four months after a protest was filed by Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) to the Bid Protest Committee (BPC) over the award of a contract for the supply of juice for government’s school feeding programme, sources say a decision is expected by tomorrow.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) and the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) came to an agreement on Tuesday for the workers to take home a 5% increase, a day after they protested the initial proposal of 2%.

The $43.1 billion budgeted for the education sector was yesterday approved by the Committee of Supply with Minister within the Ministry of Education Nicolette Henry being grilled by opposition members on among other things, the controversial Kato Secondary School and why teachers of Region 9 had not been paid as of yesterday for the month of December.

The International Centre for Parliamentary Studies (ICPS), has chosen Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM),  Dr Steve Surujbally to be this year’s recipient of the ICPS Award for Sustained Achievement in the Field of Elections Management, a release from GECOM said yesterday.

In order to bring into effect the various new tax measures included in the 2017 Budget, Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan on Tuesday took 11 new bills to the National Assembly and had them read for the first time, along with six new papers.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s crackdown on the cash economy has shattered the consensus needed for a new national sales tax, plunging his boldest reform into limbo and threatening to entrench an economic slowdown.

RALEIGH, N.C., (Reuters) – North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature yesterday defeated a bipartisan bid to repeal a controversial law restricting bathroom access in the state for transgender people, which has seen months of protests and boycotts by opponents decrying the measure as discriminatory.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – The government of Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said it was helping the attorney general’s office obtain information from prosecutors abroad after Brazil-based Odebrecht said in a global plea deal that it doled out $29 million in bribes to local officials over three presidencies.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A Florida construction equipment exporter’s owners were arrested yesterday on charges they illegally transferred over $100 million from businesses largely in Venezuela to U.S.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Delta Air Lines Inc removed two men from a plane at London’s Heathrow Airport before takeoff yesterday, and one of the men accused the airline of acting on passenger complaints that he had been speaking on a phone in Arabic.

(Reuters) – Dutch scientists have developed an artificial leaf that can act as a mini-factory for producing drugs, an advance that could allow medicines to be produced anywhere there is sunlight.