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The Guyana Revenue Authority’s (GRA) Licence Revenue Office will soon commence the registration of motor vehicles in the “PAC” series as the “PAB” series is coming to an end.

The Police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death by drowning of Renaldo Rampersaud, a 19-year-old miner, which occurred on 2022-02-01 at about 4 pm between ‘Luw Luw’ Island Point and Banana Landing, Middle Mazaruni River.

JALALABAD,  (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s public universities opened on Wednesday for the first time since the Taliban took over the country last year, with female students joining their male counterparts heading back to campus.

 (Reuters) – Whoopi Goldberg was suspended from ABC’s “The View” talk show yesterday for asserting a day earlier that the Holocaust was “not about race,” the network’s news division president said, addressing a furor over the comments.

(Trinidad Guardian) January 2022 ended with 50 murders, a figure that was double that of last year and given the constant rising number of murders and violent crimes, a criminologist has suggested that T&T seems heading to become a mafia country.

With six oil discoveries in 2021 and two already for this year, ExxonMobil yesterday said that its estimated US$6 billion global restructuring will aid aggressive works at the lucrative offshore Stabroek Block, positioning the company this year to see additional profits as it strengthens its portfolio to increase shareholder returns.

Alliance for Change Leader Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday called for the minimum wage to be moved to $100,000 as he said that is the only way the average Guyanese can survive the rising cost of living.

The Full Court on Monday dismissed a notice of appeal which had been filed by Astrolobe Technology Inc over a parking service it said it operated on East Street.

Allocations in the 2022 budget for the Ministry of Agriculture will see a modernisation of infrastructure in the sector and the promotion of drone technology for farming purposes, Minister Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday told the House.

Finding what it described as “severe shortcomings,” the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday threw out a claim brought by the Government of Belize which had sued the Government of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) on allegations of failing to apply a 40% Common External Tariff (CET) on some 3,000 tons of brown sugar imported from Guatemala and Honduras in 2019.

The Ministry of Health yesterday said that as of January 31st, 2022, three more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.

The People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) yesterday voiced its dismay at what it termed the one-sided coverage on the national budget debates airing on the National Communications Network (NCN).

Four Venezuelan females including two juveniles yesterday appeared in court charged with attempted murder.

Police in Regional Division #7 are reporting that a two-month-old boy has died in what is currently being treated as unnatural.

Police in Regional Division #7 have managed to arrest the alleged suspect in the murder of Bryan Melville.

Lowering the jail terms yesterday against the convicts in the murder of Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris, the Guyana Court of Appeal for the second day in a row criticised the base sentence of 60 years applied by Justice Navindra Singh While the superior court upheld directions given by the trial judge in the conduct of the case, it reiterated the absence of reasons behind the 60-year base sentence used by Judge Singh for murder.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s armed forces would respect a victory by leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva in this year’s presidential race, two retired generals told Reuters, adding to recent signs by military brass distancing themselves from the political project of far-right incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro.

A Heathburn Village, East Bank Berbice man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with two counts of armed robbery committed on an East Bank Berbice couple which left one of the victims hospitalized with a gunshot injury.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – OPEC+ will likely stick to existing policies of moderate output increases yesterday, five sources from the producers’ group said even as it expects demand to rise to new peaks this year and as oil prices trade near their highest since 2014.

In a judgment released yesterday, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in its Appellate Jurisdiction, allowed the appeal of the Barbados Commissioner of Police, in the matter of Commissioner of Police v Stephen Alleyne.