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The Sacred Heart rebuilding committee on Christmas Day unveiled a sketch of the buildings it proposes to put up this year, at the burnt-out Main Street site.

Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton on Wednesday remanded two persons including a teenager, when they appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to separate charges of armed robbery.

Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday remanded to prison a fish vendor who allegedly had an unlicensed shotgun in his home when police searched it.

Except for the clearing of barrels and personal effects packages, the Guyana Revenue Authority is refusing to process transactions for persons who do not have a Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) and has been doing very little business at the Licence and Internal Revenue Offices since the year started.

Speaking at the opening of a new Robb Street store, Minister of Industry and Commerce Manniram Prashad yesterday said that the business sector in Guyana is facing more competition with additional goods and foreign investment coming into the country.

Thirteen miners who are currently facing charges for dredging and destroying several stretches of road and a potable water supply system in Region Eight will not be issued mining privileges, sold permits or be registered to work in any mining district, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) says.

The National Assembly yesterday approved supplementary provisions for current and capital estimates totalling $9.398 billion and the opposition again raised questions regarding what it said was the “raiding” of the Contingencies Fund for monies that should have been covered in the National Budget.

A 22-year-old Corentyne cane harvester who is accused of chopping a man to death was remanded to prison when he appeared at the Springlands Court yesterday before Magistrate Krishendat Persaud.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud says the rainfall figure of 85 inches in the upper reaches of the Mahaica/Mahaicony Creeks put out by the Hydromet Service last week was inaccurate and represented the aggregate rainfall for two weeks.

Like many Guyanese, Seeta Oumadatt left Guyana 38 years ago, revisiting years later with her hands full.

Members of the Rosignol Fisherman’s Co-op Society Limited yesterday protested in front of the co-op, calling for the removal of the chairman, and accusing him of causing the police to seize their engines.

The PNCR is calling on the government to do an immediate evaluation of VAT with a view to significantly lowering the 16% tax and it also flayed the Jagdeo administration over the conduct of one of its Cabinet ministers, the withdrawal of ads from Stabroek News and what it said was worsening corruption among other issues.

Two technicians, a female employed with the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) and a male with the Georgetown Public Hospital lab, suffered injuries around 1.30 am yesterday at the NBTS, at the hands of a male acquaintance of the woman.

The United States Embassy says it is offering online American Citizen Services (ACS) appointment training for internet caf

People must take on more responsibility for the current situation; encourage and push the politicians to achieve more; and force them to compare Guyana, not with the worst of the world, but with the best, GAP-ROAR MP Everall Franklin says.

The Mayor and City Councillors (M&CC) is advising all street vendors that the period of flexibility that allowed them to sell along public thoroughfares has come to an end.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) is to study Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Kellawan Lall’s “remorseless” statement on his involvement in a rum shop brawl with a teenager and firing of a weapon on November 18, last to see how it affects the motion the party has taken to Parliament.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues has been assigned to the Office of the Prime Minister and Transport Minister Robeson Benn is holding the portfolio of Public Works and Communication while Prime Minister (PM) Samuel Hinds is overseas.

The Ministry of Agriculture has handed over two tubes used for maintaining drainage and irrigation to the Surapana Farmers Group in Linden.

Magistrate Hazel Octive Hamilton yesterday sentenced an ex-soldier to two years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to a charge of armed robbery when it was re-read to him summarily.