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The Ministry of Health yesterday received tenders for the Selection of Consultants: Audit Services for the period 2010 for the Global Fund HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Programmes.

Following a meeting with the business community on Friday, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) says it is concerned that the economic downturn can lead to a high level of non-performing loans and it urged the government to do more to battle crime.

Guyanese pilot Khamraj Lall who is on cash smuggling and cocaine trafficking charges is now facing the revocation of his bail for the violation of its conditions.

Days after a collision that claimed the life of his elderly passenger, taxi driver Joel James was yesterday charged with causing her death through dangerous driving.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) met with the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Wednesday, July 29, 2015, to discuss various issues that the business community has in dealing with the GRA.

An incident response team will be launched as part of a two-day workshop on cyber security being held from August 12.

At a recent outreach programme in Buxton, Education Minister Dr Rupert Roopnaraine said he intends to discard parts of the National Grade Six Assessment process.

The Police on Monday applied for and were later granted a three-day extension to keep an ex-policeman in custody for questioning into the death of Philadelphia, East Bank Essequibo resident, Davonan Sookram, according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum.

The People’s Progressive Party on Monday blasted the government’s decision to appoint Dr Clive Thomas as Chairman of the Guyana Sugar Corporation citing his tenure at the Globe Trust and Investment Company Limited which eventually had to be liquidated leaving many depositors with just a fraction of their savings.

History was made at CARICOM headquarters, Georgetown on July 30th when Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community Irwin LaRocque accepted the credentials of the first ever Ambassador of the Vatican to the Community.

The Agriculture Ministry will look to expand on projects that were initiated under the PPP/C administration including a pilot project for the cultivation of soya beans and corn at Ebini in the Berbice River by the Brazilian company NF Agriculture Incorporated.

The two men who police say stole a boat and an engine during an early morning attack at Mabaruma, North West District, were yesterday charged with robbery and remanded to prison.

Curtis Vasconcellos and Orwin Peters, who on separate occasions were charged with the attempted murder and robbery of businessman Neezam Khan, were jointly charged with the offences on Friday.

A fisherman was yesterday sentenced to nine months in prison after he admitted to stealing items from the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) Sports Complex.

The trial of ex-ministerial aide Kenroy Joseph along with a couple, Mahendra Ramsuchit and Rohbina Basdeoram, who are accused of a plot to smuggle cocaine out of the country, is yet to commence some six months after they were charged.

A landlord found himself in a city court yesterday charged with wounding his tenant.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysian opposition parties and activists kept up pressure on Prime Minister Najib Razak yesterday, undeterred by an anti-corruption agency statement apparently clearing him of receiving nearly $700 million from the debt-laden state fund 1MDB.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Police forces in two further British regions said yesteday they were examining allegations of historical child sexual abuse against the late former prime minister Edward Heath.

Two of the three University of Guyana students who were accused of an armed hold up of a city store, where millions of dollars in items were stolen, were on Monday sentenced to community service for the crime.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Sixteen policemen died yesterday when a helicopter likely crashed into the side of mountain in a wooded region of northwestern Colombia, Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas said.