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Government is proposing to spend $1 billion on the justice sector this year, according to Minister Winston Jordan who told the National Assembly that efforts will be made to make the justice system fair and accessible to all.

Finance Minister Winston Jordan yesterday announced that fuel prices at the state-owned Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil) will be slashed from the start of next week.

Government hopes to conclude negotiations with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) to liberalise the telecommunications sector and pass laws in this regard later this year.

The members of six governing boards within the environmental sector were on Thursday given their letters of appointment.

Although a post-mortem examination performed on Kurt Burke revealed that the injuries which caused his death were injuries sustained in a vehicular accident, his distressed relatives continue to insist that foul play was involved.

Two men, one of whom was armed with a firearm, were foiled in their attempt to rob proprietor of Edun’s Poultry Farm Sidiq Edun on Thursday morning at the corner of Sheriff and Duncan streets.

The Sparendaam Magis-trate’s Court building is to be demolished to facilitate the construction of a new courthouse and sittings will be held at the nearby Better Hope Community Centre in the interim.

Floyd Anthony Ramit and Kemo Tyron Evans, the two men accused of murdering Hamson’s owner Abdul Farouk Hamid, were yesterday charged jointly with the crime.

A former Caribbean Chemicals Limited employee, who had been accused of stealing over $7.8 million from the company, was freed of the charge on Thursday.

A West Bank Demerara youth was yesterday denied bail by a city court after being accused of using an icepick to rob a Third Form-level student.

The Speaker of the National Assembly and Members of Parliament (MPs) yesterday observed a minute of silence as a mark of respect for prominent attorney at law Hukumchand Parag, who died last Sunday after a period of illness.

Facing allegations of stealing an air-conditioning unit, a Prospect man was on Thursday granted $25,000 bail when he appeared before Magistrate Faith McGusty.

Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) says fallen branches from a city tree clearing exercise yesterday caused a short circuit on one of the main feeders out of its Kingston plant, resulting in several outages.

Some of the major 2016 budget measures announced yesterday by Minister of Finance Winston Jordan.

(Reuters) – Companies and scientists are racing to create a Zika vaccine as concern grows over the mosquito-borne virus that has been linked to severe birth defects and is spreading quickly through the Americas.

DES MOINES, (Reuters) – As seven Republican presidential contenders squared off here for the final debate before voters begin winnowing the field, Donald Trump presided over his own, separate rally a mile away in front of a packed house of cheering supporters.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition must define within weeks its strategy for ending Nicolas Maduro’s presidency given the OPEC nation’s “monstrous” economic crisis, opposition leader Henrique Capriles believes.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Switzerland’s chief prosecutor said yesterday he has formally asked Malaysia for help with his probe into possible violations of Swiss law by the state-owned fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), saying suspected misappropriations amounted to about $4 billion.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Thousands of supporters of Haiti’s outgoing President Michel Martelly have been taking to the streets in the capital, demanding speedy elections to end a crisis of power in the Caribbean nation.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Democratic U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren released yesterday a report criticizing what she called “shockingly weak” punishments for corporate crimes and condemned the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission for their lax approach.