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A man is now dead and a family of four homeless, after an early morning fire gutted a two-storey house at Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara yesterday.

Banks DIH Limited has filed a $28B lawsuit against the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the government for what it says is the overpayment in consumption taxes with interest for the period 2001 to 2006, in light of a settlement last year between fellow beverage company DDL and the agency.

Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan yesterday officially approved the Georgetown Metered Parking bylaws and drivers will have to pay from today to park in certain areas of the city.

A West Berbice labourer lost his life on Sunday evening when he rode his unregistered motorcycle into the concrete base of an electricity pole on the West Coast Berbice public road at Hopetown.

A man was killed on Sunday morning when he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a utility pole at Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara.

With a drop in the paddy price from $4,500 per bag over two years ago to less than $3,000 per bag, farmers have been advised to focus on increasing their productivity so that their yields can become higher.

Teachers and parents of students attending the South Road Nursery are trying to save the school from being phased out.

Former Ministry of the Presidency Permanent Secretary Omar Shariff and his common-law wife were yesterday each read a charge alleging that they failed to comply with a court order.

The Cuban owner of club in Providence was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with trafficking a woman.

The Court of Appeal last week dismissed the race baiting appeal case involving PPP/C Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, whose lawyer yesterday accused the Guyana Chronicle of being misleading in its reportage on the outcome of the matter.

Michael Caesar, who pleaded guilty to the 2008 Bartica mass killing, yesterday told Justice Roxane George SC and a jury, that the three men currently being tried for the crime were not there when 12 men, including three police officers, were killed.

Former veteran policeman Leon Lindo was yesterday committed to stand trial for conspiring to murder businessman Mohamed Khan, whose decapitated corpse was found at Cummings Lodge in 2015.

Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan yesterday protested the installation of parking meters in front of the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre and the Bishops’ High School.

A Berbice man was yesterday remanded to prison on two counts of rape.

Hauled before a city court on a drug trafficking charge, a woman yesterday told a magistrate that she was framed by police.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The new US administration of President Donald Trump vowed yesterday that the US would prevent China from taking over territory in international waters in the South China Sea, something Chinese state media has warned would require Washington to “wage war.”

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – US President Donald Trump yesterday reinstated a global gag rule that bans US-funded groups around the world from discussing abortion, a move that was widely expected but nonetheless dismayed women’s rights advocates.

A man from Number 19 Village, Corentyne, Berbice was yesterday placed on $200,000 bail on an attempted murder charge when he appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court.

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – Remittances to El Salvador jumped by 7.2 per cent in 2016 compared to the same period a year earlier, reaching the highest level in the country’s history and marking the biggest increase in a decade, El Salvador’s central bank reported yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados Pride have dismissed any idea of home pressure when they take on perennial rivals Guyana Jaguars in one of two games on the opening day of the 2017 Regional Super50 here Tuesday.