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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board has refused to confirm whether marquee batsman Darren Bravo was offered a lower level Grade C central contract for the upcoming year.

The Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC) says it is considering raising land rents as one means of increasing revenue.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,  CMC – Opener Kraigg Brathwaite’s monumental performance in the third Test against Pakistan has seen him vault into the top 20 of the International Cricket Council Test player rankings.

The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions has condemned a news item in today’s Guyana Chronicle which stated in part that state prosecutors shun highly political cases.

Jaipaul Sharma, Minister within the Ministry of Finance today met with Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud at the Commissioner of Police’s office to hand over the Final Reports of the Forensic Audits of the Sparendaam Housing Project-(Special Investigation of the Central Housing and Planning Authority) and the Guyana World Cup/Guyana World Cup Inc.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Government has initiated legal action against nine former officials of the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) on allegations of corruption during their tenure.

There will no longer be any action in respect to the compulsory acquisition of two plots of land at Carmichael and Middle streets belonging to High Commissioner to Canada, Clarissa Riehl and her husband and the Beharry Group of Companies, Minister of State Joseph Harmon announced yesterday.

A 19-year-old man was remanded to prison on Monday on a charge of murder over the beating to death of another with a cricket bat.

The bandit who was shot dead on Wednesday morning, after he and another man attempted to break into a Diamond, East Bank Demerara home, has been identified.

  Bartica resident Jaiwattie Singh yesterday recounted a raid by unknown bandits, who riddled her home with bullets on the night of February 17, 2008 and carted off a quantity of gold, and left her family still traumatized to the present day.

The Guyana Water Inc’s (GWI) Chief Internal Auditor  has had his appointment to the position revoked.

The city’s two largest garbage disposal contractors have once again given notice to the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) of their intention to suspend their collection services if they are not paid hundreds of millions owed to them.

The recently established, five-member Public Procurement Commission (PPC) has elected Carol Corbin  as its Chairman and the government will now be relieved of the task of giving its no-objection before contracts are awarded.

A former nursing aide died on Tuesday after undergoing an emergency C-Section at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

A minibus driver was remanded to prison yesterday after being charged in a city court with attempted murder.

Four bus sheds, powered by solar panels and equipped with LED lighting, were yesterday commissioned in South Ruimveldt and they are expected to generate revenue to assist in funding community projects, which are being undertaken by the South Ruimveldt Community Management Group.

Vendors and other stakeholders are being assured that works on the Kitty Market will be completed for the Christmas holidays. 

State Minister Joseph Harmon has defended the government’s decision to have Attorney General (AG) Basil Williams advising on the composition of a team of special prosecutors to handle alleged criminal offences connected to the sale of land at the ‘Pradoville 2’ housing scheme, where former President Bharrat Jagdeo and a string of current and former senior officials have homes.

Delon Small, the accused in the murder of Coast Guardsman Kevon Payne, was yesterday committed to stand trial for the crime.

A Golden Grove businessman, who police say was found with a shotgun and matching ammunition, yesterday appeared in court to answer to the charges of illegal firearm and ammunition possession.