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With government and the opposition continually clashing over legislative drafting and vetting, former Clerk Frank Narain says the time may have come for the National Assembly to have its own legal counsel.

A Trinidad-based Guy-anese has established a $1b hardware store at Providence on the East Bank.

Some small businesses and start-ups are poised to benefit from better access to financing and technical and entrepreneurial training under the government’s new US$10 million Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) Development Project that was launched yesterday.

The country is still waiting for President Donald Ramotar to decide on whether he will assent to four local government bills but in the meantime there is a difference of opinion on whether they were passed unanimously with the Speaker of the National Assembly saying aye but two PPP ministers differing.

Regrettably, domestic violence seems to be accepted by a wide cross-section of Guyanese men and women as a normal aspect of life.

Both the East Bank and East Coast four-lane extension projects which are currently ongoing ought to be completed by June of 2014, according to the Work Ministry’s Manager of Roads and Bridges Department, Ron Rahaman.

Both the East Bank and East Coast four-lane extension projects which are currently ongoing ought to be completed by June of 2014, according to the Work Ministry’s Manager of Roads and Bridges Department, Ron Rahaman.

The recent collapse of a section of the multi-million dollar Supenaam Stelling is being blamed on neglect, while concerns abound that defects and further wear may exist in other sections of the structure, which could create conditions for an impending calamity.

President Donald Ramotar has announced intentions to import stone to cover the perceived supply shortage being seen but Managing Director of BK International Brian Tiwari says that the President’s statements are badly informed.

“I’ll mash it up.” This was the thought in Miss Trinidad and Tobago Breige Wilson’s mind just moments before she took the stage last Tuesday to answer the final question of the Miss Jamzone International Pageant at the National Cultural Centre, where she walked off with the crown.

In the midst of an outpouring of tributes for his contributions to Guyana’s political, social and cultural landscape, elder statesman Eusi Kwayana on Wednesday called for action to improve the way women are being treated in the society.

President Donald Ramotar yesterday made a renewed bid to win APNU’s support for the Amaila Hydropower project but party Leader David Granger maintains that the venture cannot be supported in its present form.

The Audit Office will investigate discrepancies flagged in Region 10’s accounts, including overpayments to contractors that have led to a call for the sacking of the region’s Senior Superintendent of Works Patrice Johnson.

Clerk of the National Assembly Sherlock Isaacs says the four recently passed local government bills and the Hydro Electric Power (Amendment) Bill need to be sent to the office of the Attorney General (AG) for assent certificates before they are sent to President Donald Ramotar to sign them into law.

More than a decade after talks began on reform legislation, the four bills which pave the way for local government polls were passed by the National Assembly last night.

Region Two officials are concerned about the quality of rice to be produced this season as paddy bugs have re-appeared just as the new crop has started to mature.

Chairman of GPL’s Board of Directors Winston Brassington says that a re-tendering for the US$858 million Amalia Falls Hydroelectric Project, though not impossible, would send a negative message to the investors who are providing the majority of the finances to facilitate the venture.

Many vendors are selling food in the midst of garbage at the Anna Regina Market.

The government yesterday tried to win stakeholders’ support for the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project, which President Donald Ramotar said his administration should not have to bargain for.

“We are prepared to wait until hell freezes over,” House Speaker Raphael Trotman declared, after Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud yesterday remained silent when asked to take the reins on the four local government bills brought back to the National Assembly.