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“As at end June, less than 30 percent of the Public Sector Investment Programme [PSIP] was expended.

Ex-policeman Ruel Brandon, was yesterday acquitted of the 2015 murder of Davonan Sookram, after the court upheld a no-case submission made by his attorney, Nigel Hughes.

Demolition works on the once famous Astor Cinema located at Church and Waterloo streets have commenced.

The body of a 51-year-old labourer/vendor was yesterday discovered with suspected stab wounds in his Uitspa Village, Demerara River house.

While saying that he has become accustomed to a life of luxury, a New York court has agreed to recommend that Guyanese businessman Ed Ahmad serves his two-year sentence for conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud at a minimum security facility.

Describing the diaspora as a “sleeping giant,” Professor Dhanpaul Narine of New York (NY) says more systems and policies need to be put in place to encourage overseas-based Guyanese to return home to invest.

WASHINGTON/CARACAS, Venezuela, (Reuters) – The Trump administration imposed sanctions on 13 senior Venezuelan officials as the country’s opposition launched a two-day strike yesterday, heaping pressure on unpopular President Nicolas Maduro to scrap plans for a controversial new congress.

Since assuming office, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has taken several overseas trips and the opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) would like government to provide a cost benefit analysis of this travel.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said yesterday he would ban transgender people from the U.S.

Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan has been presented with more questions in relation to nearly $632 million in emergency drug purchases for the Georgetown Public Hos-pital Corporation (GPHC).

Investigations are ongoing into the circumstances surrounding the plane crash that claimed the life of  Roraima Airways’ chief pilot, Collin Winston Martin on Tuesday evening at Eteringbang, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni).

Difficulty maintaining a stable radio frequency due to current weather conditions has resulted in the temporary suspension of Radio Mabaruma.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A Russian national suspected of being the mastermind behind a crypto-currency exchange has been indicted by a grand jury in California on money laundering charges, the U.S.

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) says that its representative in government, Dr.

Amid serious revolts in the prison system, a consultant is on a second visit here which will see programmes designed to reduce the overcrowding of prisons by finding alternatives to pre-trial detention.

WASHINGTON/MOSCOW/BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers reached an agreement on Wednesday paving the way for the U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump further stoked speculation about the fate of his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, yesterday by assailing him in a fresh round of tweets even as Sessions was attending meetings at the White House.

A South Ruimveldt resident was yesterday denied bail after he pleaded not guilty to a charge of armed robbery.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Senate leaders, struggling to keep a seven-year promise to end Obamacare, turned their focus on Wednesday to passing a slimmed-down “skinny” repeal measure that would throw the issue into negotiations with the House of Representatives.

A taxi driver was yesterday granted bail when he appeared in court charged with making sexual advances to a woman.