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Investigations are being conducted into a fatal accident that occurred at about 0420h.

At about 0630h. today, police say that a jet boat passed a cargo boat with fuel in the Mazaruni River and the wave from the jet boat caused the cargo boat to capsize.

The PPP/C today said that its lists of candidates for regional democratic council elections scheduled for Tuesday was rejected by GECOM this afternoon.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Supreme Court ruled today that the U.S.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday said that the fuel scam discovered at the Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil) where vehicles not affiliated with any government ministry or agency have been accessing fuel involves millions of dollars and he said the Managing Director of the company has to go.

Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma is scheduled to arrive in Guyana tomorrow for a three-day visit, to gain a clear understanding of the region’s concerns and priorities, a release from the Commonwealth said today.

Cocaine worth US$12 million ($2.4 billion) was discovered in a shipment of shrimp from Guyana to New York last week and a man has been arrested.

The Government Informa-tion Agency (GINA) owes the state broadcaster, the National Communications Network (NCN) as well as the state newspaper Guyana Chronicle, millions of dollars and an investigation is underway with a shake-up of GINA imminent, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo says.

By Jeanna Pearson in Grenada   Guyana was placed under the microscope yesterday at the opening of the 60th Caribbean Public Health Agency Research Conference in Grenada, when several health researchers who presented on the prevalence of violence and injury in the Caribbean, ranked this country as one of the top distressed countries.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has announced that it will now be randomly selecting personal effects for inspection and travellers through the CJIA with ‘Nothing to Declare’ will be profiled for 100% baggage examination.

Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro will address his country’s Parliament today on its new claims to Guyana’s maritime territory.

Government has until early next month to indicate to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) whether it intends to continue with the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) with the decision hinging on an economic feasibility study done by the Bank.

A team led by Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson will examine the controversial $600M High Street building constructed since 2008 but unused due to defects in construction.

In the absence of the opposition PPP/C, government yesterday tabled its first five bills in the Eleventh Parliament including one to reduce the benefits of former presidents and the updated anti-money laundering legislation.

The Contingencies Fund continues to be abused with $510 million withdrawn from the fund in 2013 for ventures that did not meet the criteria.

Anthony De Paul Hope yesterday presented the court a new script in the story of his aunt’s murder for which he is currently on trial.

A post-mortem examination performed on the body of Odessa Howard, who died in Sunday’s accident at Nismes, revealed that she sustained broken ribs which punctured her heart.

A Plaisance youth is now hospitalised after he was stabbed several times by an alleged convict outside the Plaisance Market around noon yesterday.

Two suspicious persons were noticed in Butcher’s Pools Hall and Bar prior to the shooting that claimed a life and injured another on Tuesday night.

After police said they received information which led them to search the home of a Linden man for guns and ammunition, a logger appeared in a city court and was remanded to prison.