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As Guyana keeps pushing for a formal agreement with Mexico to export rice there, Head of the Millers Association, Peter deGroot is not anticipating any progress before the first crop of 2016.

A new bill proposed by the APNU+AFC administration will see credit information providers such as banks, companies licensed to conduct financial business, and other entities approved by the Bank of Guyana, being authorised to provide credit information to a licensed credit bureau without the consent of the consumer.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama vowed yesterday to hunt down anyone plotting militant attacks against the United States as he sought to reassure Americans after a deadly California shooting rampage that has raised new questions about U.S.

A six-year-old child of Richmond Housing Scheme, Essequibo Coast went missing on Wednesday last and his family is seeking help in finding him.

The National Milling Company of Guyana Inc. (NAMILCO) recently held its 2015 Port Facility Exercise at its Houston complex.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leaders said their coalition won control of the legislature from the ruling Socialists for the first time in 16 years yesterday, though there was no confirmation from the national electoral board.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France’s far-right National Front pulled off a historic win yesterday, topping the vote in the first round of regional elections, in a breakthrough that shakes up the country’s political landscape before 2017 presidential elections.

(Reuters) – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter delivered an unexpected message yesterday to the several hundred people gathered at a Baptist church in Georgia for his Bible lesson – his latest brain scan showed no sign of cancer.

(Trinidad Express) United National Congress (UNC) political leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s landslide victory at the party’s internal elections was a fair and square one, Rampersad Parasram, chairman of the Elections Management Committee, has said.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Trinidad and Tobago Red Force, trailing Guyana Jaguars by 214 runs, were 51 for two in their second innings on the third day of their fourth round match in the Regional First Class Championship at Queen’s Park Oval today.

Stabroek News is publishing below the Tender Evaluation Report done in 2012 in relation to the Specialty Surgical Hospital which showed that Fedders Lloyd Corporation Limited was administratively disqualified.

ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC-The controversial proposal to dissolve the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) was not discussed when Caricom leaders and the WICB top brass met in St.George’s

(Trinidad Guardian) A landslide victory for United National Congress second-term leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar seemed sure up to 10.05 last night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Days before the Office of the Attorney General was given the green light to seize the assets of T&T national Kareem Ibrahim who was convicted of terrorism in the United States, a local Muslim leader has disclosed that one of his daughters, a son-in-law and three grandsons had gone to war-torn Syria, where the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) terror group operates.

Under pressure to defend a MoU with Fedders Lloyd for the Specialty Hospital, the Ministry of Finance on November 28 stated that the company was the second best bidder and this is why it was approached, however the evaluation report obtained by Stabroek News shows that company was disqualified from the process.

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) yesterday said there was no wrongdoing by board Chairman Clinton Williams in taking control of lands for which mining permits were granted to his friend and his racking up of a multi-million dollar food and drinks bill at the agency’s expense.

After losing a bid to get Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield to withdraw his application for the elections petition to be struck out in the High Court, the PPP/C-nominated Commissioners of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) yesterday accused the elections management body of seeking to dodge public scrutiny.

Four months ago, Radica Thakoor, having exhausted all options, hand delivered a letter to the office of Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan asking that an inquiry into her daughter’s murder be held.

A uniformed soldier was among four persons held in a car with two unlicensed guns yesterday morning and army Chief-of-Staff Brigadier General Mark Phillips says that he will have to face the full brunt of the law.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is still looking for a way to utilise the parking lot at Camp and Lamaha streets, which was constructed for it by Chinese logging company Baishanlin.