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Banks DIH registered a profit of $2.569b for last year, a 13% rise over the 2014 figure.

Attorney-General Basil Williams is confident that Guyana now has the legal framework in place for freezing the assets of money launderers and terrorists and sources say at least one prominent citizen is on the radar of authorities.

Some 656 complaints were made against police officers during last year, according to Police Complaints Authority (PCA) Chairman retired Justice Cecil Kennard.

The National Assembly early Friday morning approved in excess of $202M for the budgeted operations of the five constitutional rights commissions.

All 24 files compiled on a multi-million-dollar fraud allegedly committed by former Public Service Minister Dr Jennifer Westford and a ministry employee are now back at the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

The daughter of Anita Baichan was held on Thursday for questioning in connection with the killing of her mother in a fire but has since been released from custody according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum, who said that the other suspects are still being questioned.

The body of a Handsome Tree, Mahaica woman was discovered yesterday morning some distance away from her home, two days after she was reported missing.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has written to the Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud to aid in the recovery of signs that were seized from in front of its Freedom House headquarters on Thursday.

A report carried in Saturday’s edition of the Stabroek News, headlined “Benschop says Gecom’s ‘inefficiencies’ stymieing campaign,” erroneously stated that candidate Mark benschop was “concerned about Gecom’s leadership.”

LOS MOCHIS, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexico aims to extradite drug lord Joaquin ‘Chapo’ Guzman to the United States after security forces recaptured the fugitive cartel leader who blew his cover through a series of slip ups, including an attempt to make a movie about his life.

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country conducted a hydrogen bomb test as a self-defensive step against a US threat of nuclear war and had a sovereign right to do so without being criticised, state news agency KCNA reported yesterday.

(Reuters) – A Muslim advocacy group yesterday called on Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump to apologize after a Muslim woman engaged in a silent protest was removed by security personnel and booed by the crowd at his rally in South Carolina on Friday night.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Armed men shot dead a police officer and a soldier in their car on the outskirts of Cairo yesterday, Egypt’s state news agency said, a day after suspected militants armed with knives wounded three European tourists in a Red Sea resort.

MAINZ/COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) – Migrants who commit crimes should lose their right to asylum, German chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday, toughening her tone as crowds gathered in Cologne angered by mass assaults on women on New Year’s Eve.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – A torrential downpour did not hamper director Quentin Tarantino as he left imprints of his hands and feet in cement at Hollywood’s historic TCL Chinese Theatre on Tuesday.

The Guyana Bar Association today called for a full inquiry into the botched December 30th intelligence operation that left three people dead and a host of questions in its wake.

The body of a man that was found earlier in this week with his dog in a yacht flying a French flag bore a gunshot wound to the face.

About 0300h. today, acting on a report received police ranks went to a home at Bush Lot, WCB, and as they approached the building three men were seen jumping over a fence on the premises, a statement from the police said today.The

LOS MOCHIS, Mexico, (Reuters) – For years the world’s most wanted drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman used tunnels to smuggle billions of dollars worth of drugs into the United States and to evade capture – until Mexico’s government got wise to his game.