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Two labourers were yesterday charged with stealing a little over $80,000 in lights from the Gafoors building at Houston.

Trinidad-based Republic Bank Ltd on Monday inaugurated its first trade mission in Guyana in hopes of developing new corporate relationships and opening markets across the region.

President of the Essequibo Chamber of Commerce Deleep Singh is relieved that the ramp on the Supenaam Stelling in Essequibo, which was damaged when the MV Sabanto crashed into it in July, has finally been repaired.

Rum producers from across the Caribbean will meet in Guyana today and tomorrow to discuss challenges faced by the sector in a very competitive global environment.

A mechanic, who allegedly shot at another individual, was yesterday released on $150,000 bail after denying the charge in a city court.

Two men were yesterday granted bail on separate robbery charges when they appeared before a city magistrate.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Violent protests erupted in Haiti yesterday as losing candidates rejected the preliminary results of an election that indicated banana exporter Jovenel Moise would be the next president.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump yesterday chose a former Goldman Sachs banker and a billionaire investor to steer economic policy in his administration and a fierce Obamacare critic to dismantle President Barack Obama’s signature heathcare programme.

A teen was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in jail after he pleaded guilty to a wounding charge.

The charge against Uttanpad Sewnarine, the man accused of stabbing the mother of his child upwards of ten times in front of her Kitty home, was on Monday withdrawn after the victim refused to give evidence in the matter.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba’s leftist allies and Washington’s top diplomat in Havana joined a sprawling throng of Cubans at a rally yesterday to commemorate Fidel Castro, the man who built a Communist state on the doorstep of the United States.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- West Indies batsman Darren Bravo is taking legal action against the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) after he was dropped from the squad before the recently concluded tri-nations One-Day series in Zimbabwe.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred about 0455h.

A 28 year old fisherman of Number 60 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, is assisting the police with the investigation in the death of his friend, 25 year old Ravi Kumar Sharma, a labourer of the said Village, whose body was found in his yard about 0600h this morning, with multiple lacerations about the body.

The tail section of a Fly Jamaica plane was knocked off by a Caribbean Airlines craft this morning.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haitians have chosen banana exporter Jovenel Moise as their next president, provisional results released by the election council on Monday showed, with the political novice winning a majority and avoiding a second round runoff.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense, heading for the biggest game in their history, were on board a plane carrying 81 people that crashed in Colombia killing 76 people, police said on Tuesday.

In an effort to reduce inequality and tax avoidance as well as increase disposable income, the government plans to increase the income tax threshold from January 1, 2017.

Value-Added Tax (VAT) * Reduction in the rate of VAT from 16 per cent to 14 per cent * Increase in the VAT threshold from $10 million to $15 million.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth this year has been 2.6% compared to the originally projected 4.4% following a downswing in key sectors, Finance Minister Winston Jordan said while delivering the $250 billion 2017 budget yesterday in the National Assembly.