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The private sector and the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) are working to eliminate bottlenecks affecting the business community as the revenue body attempts to build on the success of its institutional reform.

Following the recent parliamentary fall out over $4B granted to the Housing Ministry as supplementary provisions, AFC Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan has initiated proceedings to have Ministers Irfaan Ali and Dr Ashni Singh appear before the Committee of Privileges charged with contempt.

-audit report Multiple breaches in the Tender Board Procedures in Region 4 have been a common feature over the last two years, the 2008 Auditor General report reveals.

A number of open heart surgeries will be conducted on children starting today and the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) has issued an urgent call to the public to donate blood.

A health fair in observance of World Health Day would be hosted along Brickdam on Sunday.

‘Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana,’ written 169 years ago by German Explorer Robert Schomburgk who first visited Guyana in 1835, was unveiled Thursday at the Umana Yana.

The Guyana and Trinidad Mutual Group of Insurance Companies (GTM) launched a new $52M branch yesterday at Plantain Walk, Vreed-en-hoop.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) launched the Acade-mic Education Programme aimed at boosting its ranks education and development, on Thursday at Base Camp Seweyo.

Sterling Products Limited (SPL) has acquired the ISO (International Organisation of Standard) 9001:2008 certification for its wide range of edible fats products.

A new Well Station, expected to deliver upgraded water services, was installed yesterday at Amelia’s Ward, Linden.

Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh and German Ambassador Ernest Martens yesterday signed an additional $1.36B agreement for financial cooperation on tropical forest protection.

Those offering health services outside traditional medical practice will soon have to operate under new rules, following the passage of a new law on Thursday.

The Parliamentary Committee of Privileges on Wednesday told PNCR-1G MP Deborah Backer, who the government wants to be held in contempt over statements she made about ranks of the joint services during a debate, informed that it would contact her following a statement to the committee by her attorney.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS) Dr Roger Luncheon said Cabinet has planned a number of activities targeting industrial and manufacturing entities in observance of World Occupational Safety and Health Day.

President Bharrat Jagdeo met Head of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) and Science Advisor Dr Ulric (Neville) Trotz on Thursday to discuss specific projects that can benefit Guyana as it adapts to the phenomenon.

Claudio Akeen, the young man stabbed during an attack by a miner Wednesday night, is in a stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) and police are still looking for his attacker.

Government is committed to finance additional interventions to cushion the effects of the El Nino dry weather phenomenon and an additional $300M has been allocated to fund such interventions recently.

Justin Bailey, called ‘Jassy,’ who was convicted of manslaughter last month, was sentenced to 13 years at the Berbice Assizes on Thursday.

Lloyd Roberts was granted $20,000 bail when he appeared Thursday before acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson charged with unlawfully assaulting a policeman.

-man charged with assaulting mother Magistrate Ann McLennan sentenced two women who pleaded guilty to assaulting each other to two months community service each or the alternative of two weeks jail.