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The National Assembly last evening passed the Appropriation Bill 2007 approving the National Budget after a number of days of debate on the Minister of Finance’s speech and the estimates in the Committee of Supply.

Vendors outside the Stabroek Market who have been given marching orders yesterday took their case to court and the controversy also graced the chambers of Parliament and City Hall where there was confusion over how the decision was made.

The six Republic Bank employees, allegedly implicated in an $8 million ABM theft, were yesterday released on $20,000 bail each.

Rice farmers operating within that Paradise/Evergreen Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) owe over $50 million in arrears for rates and taxes.

Help & Shelter will soon commence a 12-month project to increase awareness of domestic violence and child abuse at “identified” health centres, following the approval of funding from the Canadian High Commission’s Canada Fund for Local Initiatives, a release said.

Over 40 percent of Valued Added Tax and Excise Tax returns for January have been collected by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), and today is the due date by which all registrants must make their returns and payments.

Under this year’s budgetary allocation for Region Seven (Cuyuni/Mazaruni) about $103M will be spent to sustain and execute several ongoing projects in the region’s various sectors.

The Guyana Defence Force has been called upon to remove the shells of three Soviet-manufactured helicopters from their Air Corps Base at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.

Classes have resumed at St. Gabriel’s Primary following what has been described as productive talks between staff members and officials of the Ministry of Education.

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The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in partnership with the Judicial Education Institute of the Judiciary of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) is hosting a conference for the Caricom legal community to discuss issues that will fall under the Bench and Bar’s purview with the implementation of the CSME.

PNCR back-bencher Ernest Elliot while focusing on matters affecting regional development in Region Four contended last week that over the years funds allocated to the administration had been inadequate and remains that way this year.

Robert Simels, the New York lawyer for drug accused businessman, Roger Khan is to file a motion to have the Guyanese released from administrative custody at a federal jail in the US, saying that Khan is locked away in a cell which only allows him three showers per week and no telephone privileges.

Miners are being offered a range of cash incentives to prospect for the highly valued platinum, emeralds and other minerals.

Passengers who used the Rosignol to New Amsterdam (NA) ferry service at around 5:30 am yesterday complained that they were delayed for some time after the MV Torani drifted away from the stelling.

The relatives of Yonette Mc Donald, who was involved in an accident on Friday night that took the lives of her reputed husband and another man, fear that she too may succumb as she is still unconscious and hooked up to a life-support machine in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital.

A priest was refused bail by Magistrate Chandra Sohan after he appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court on Friday on a charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

The death of Constable Michau Cort, 27, has prompted Magistrate Chandra Sohan to lambaste the police for not observing the rules governing the schedule for “music boxes” to play at public functions.

A driver appeared in court on Monday on a robbery under arms charge and was remanded to prison.

A Sophia resident who was allegedly found with cocaine during a police operation, appeared in court on Friday and was remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.