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Months after a worker fell off a building in Diamond and died, the Department of Labour is still to complete its investigation.

The Fellows of the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) recently hosted their first networking event, ‘YLAI Connect’, where as many as 70 business minds came together to share a whirlpool of innovative ideas.

A total of $2.3 billion was approved on Thursday evening by the Committee of Supply, for Region Seven (Cuyuni/Mazaruni), during the consideration of the 2017 estimates in the National Assembly.

Regardless of who you are, once caught with narcotics you will be charged and placed before the court, Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) James Singh said last Friday, but stressed that the unit could not make arrests solely on hearsay.

The delayed payments of the facilitators and participants of the Hinterland Employment Youth Service (HEYS) fuelled intense scrutiny of the allocation of funds for the programme by the opposition in parliament last week.

ALEPPO, Syria/BEIRUT (Reu-ters) – A new deal is being negotiated to complete the evacuation of rebel-held areas of Syria’s east Aleppo which ground to a halt on Friday after demands from pro-government forces that people also be moved out of two villages besieged by insurgents.

Revenue to be collected from the newly instituted Value Added Tax (VAT) on data, water and electricity is expected to bring in close to $3 billion next year, Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority Godfrey Statia has said.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday he was reversing this week’s elimination of Venezuela’s largest-denomination currency bill, to extend its use until January 2.

The 2017 budgetary allocation for the Ministry of Natural Resources have been approved, allowing for, among other things, the procurement and outfitting of a building for the newly established Petroleum Division.

BEIJING/WEST PALM BEACH, Fla (Reuters) – China will return an underwater US drone seized by a naval vessel this week in the South China Sea, both countries said yesterday, but Beijing complained that Washington had been “hyping up” the incident.

The Port Mourant Hospital is a step closer to being baby friendly with its new $14 million Maternity Unit, which was commissioned on Friday last.

Though Guyana’s oil and gas sector is still in its in infancy stage, Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman warns that not everyone will be included in the sector, instead, Guyanese must pay attention to the extending benefits it will provide.

SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (Reuters) – Hundreds of Venezuelans jumped barriers to defy their government’s closure of the Colombian border yesterday while looting and protests continued due to a cash shortage, causing pre-Christmas chaos.

ABUJA (Reuters) – The West African regional bloc said yesterday it would take all necessary actions to uphold the result of a Dec.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Veteran left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul struck his second straight hundred and the 73rd of an illustrious first class career to help Guyana Jaguars batter a hapless Trinidad and Tobago Red Force here today.

Ranks of the Joint Services this morning carried out a search in the Georgetown Prison and the undermentioned prohibited items were found, the police said.

(Trinidad Guardian) For the second time in six months, the United States (US) has been refused permission to enter former government minister Jack Warner’s legal challenge of Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi’s decision to sign off on an extradition request from its Department of Justice.

Contending that around 30% to 40% of taxes are not being paid over, Tax Chief Godfrey Statia yesterday served notice that presumptive taxation will be employed to rope in professional who are avoiding their obligations and he also signalled a crackdown on smuggling while emphasising that all  public officials must submit their returns.

In a much-anticipated decision, outgoing UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has decided that the Good Offices process on the decades-old border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela will be given one more year and if by the end of 2017 “significant progress” has not been made, the case will move to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

The collaborative efforts of all stakeholders, scrutiny from international partners and the building of political will to tackle ‘sacred cows’ are necessary to win the ongoing war on drug use and drug trafficking, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan said yesterday.