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Senior Minister within the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance Dr Ashni Singh spent more than two hours on Friday night closing the debate on the 2022 national budget, where he focused heavily on the shortcomings of the APNU+AFC coalition during its time in government.

Indian High Commissioner Dr KJ Srinivasa has said that a large quantity of rice was imported from India during 2021 by local businessmen in order to meet export commitments.

The Health Ministry on Saturday confirmed one more COVID-19 death and a total of 296 more infections.

Ovid Williams, a miner who police say fatally chopped another man to death last Sunday, has been charged with the crime and remanded to prison.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – North Korea continued to develop its nuclear and ballistic missile programs during the past year and cyberattacks on cryptocurrency exchanges were an important revenue source for Pyongyang, according to an excerpt of a confidential United Nations report seen yesterday by Reuters.

The Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) on Friday said three of its five generators at its 46.5 MW Garden of Eden power plant have been returned to supplying the national grid, after the facility was shut down last month over fears of a possible explosion.

TORONTO/OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canadian cities, including the financial hub Toronto, faced disruptions yesterday as protests against vaccine mandates spread from the capital of Ottawa, raising fears of clashes with counter protesters.

The body of Wakenaam businessman Lakeram Kuber, who went missing after a boat mishap in the Essequibo River on Thursday evening, has been found.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth said yesterday that she wants Prince Charles’ wife Camilla to be styled Queen Consort when he becomes king, cementing her place at the heart of the royal family after once being judged an outsider.

(Trinidad Express) – Even as he noted that instances of corruption were widespread in Trinidad and Tobago, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday “the time has come to stop pretending that the angel Gabriel will come down and save us from ourselves”.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil has registered 1,308 new COVID-19 deaths over the last 24 hours and 197,442 new cases, the Health Ministry said yesterday.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) on Saturday said that the alleged rapist of a 17-year-old girl has been arrested following the report of the attack.

(Trinidad Guardian) – A worker was shot dead after he tried to escape during a robbery at a jewellery store on High Street, San Fernando, yesterday.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s environmental inspector, responding to fuel supply shortages, yesterday authorized temporary resumption of hydrocarbon loading and unloading operations at sea at a refinery owned by Spain’s Repsol which had been halted during a probe of a major oil spill.

The Guyana Water Incorporated on Friday said checks on the distribution network in the Lusignan area on the East Coast of Demerara have shown that residents are enjoying significantly improved level of service following the recent completion of a new well which is serving Lusignan, Annandale West, Good Hope Public Road and Courbane Park, East Coast Demerara. 

The Berbice Bridge Company Inc. (BBCI) has reduced the freight charges for trucks transporting sand to East Berbice.

The Ministry of Labour’s Occupational Health and Safety Department registered with 27 workplace deaths for 2021.

The Alliance For Change today said that it noted with dismay and disappointment that the PPP is carrying through with its objective of dismantling all remaining guardrails of good governance and transparency.

(Reuters) – The coronavirus pandemic reached a grim new milestone in the United States yesterday with the nation’s cumulative death toll from COVID-19 surpassing 900,000, even as the daily number of lives lost has begun to level off, according to data collected by Reuters.

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Friday announced government’s “packed” legislative agenda for 2022, with electoral reforms as well as the delayed amendment to removal of custodial sentences for the possession of small amounts of marijuana among over three dozen pieces of legislation to be advanced.