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Convicted drug traffickers who are unable or unwilling to pay fines imposed along with their sentences are either required to spend additional time in jail or have their assets confiscated by the state through the relevant law enforcement agencies.

While declaring that his intention is not to be “unduly critical to any magistrate,” nor to bring the administration of justice into disrepute, Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC has lamented what he described as the slothful progress in the Magistrate’s Courts of the criminal matters stemming from the March 2nd, 2020 General Elections.

Over 200 Berbicians put in their applications last week in the hopes of joining the Guyana Police Force.

On August 16th, 2022, the Realtor Association of Guyana met with the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) to discuss the role which realtors are required to play in ensuring the sector is in compliance with the requirements of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act of 2009. 

While prices for vegetables at the Bourda Market have remained steady between July 12th  and August 17th based on checks done by Stabroek News, tomatoes continue to fetch a premium rate and there could be  a link to the oil and gas industry.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Road blockades set up by community members around Zijin Mining’s 601899.SS

Residents of Smith Creek, Region One are set to benefit from government’s Hinterland Housing Programme, according to Minister Collin Croal.

The pothole that recently developed along the rehabilitated 200-metre portion of the Thomas Lands road has been repaired.

(Reuters) – Artillery shells rained down on a city near Europe’s biggest nuclear plant and Russian missiles struck near the Black Sea port of Odesa yesterday, as Ukraine warned of the potential for more serious attacks by Russia as the war neared its six-month anniversary.

(Trinidad Guardian) Guyanese President Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali is calling on Guyanese people living in T&T to return home to the economic opportunities that exist there.

 (Reuters) – The daughter of an ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue who advocates Russia absorbing Ukraine was killed in a suspected car bomb attack outside Moscow, Russian state investigators said on Sunday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three weeks before strangling seven-year-old McKenzie Hope Rechier, the 25-year-old suspect confided in a neighbour that she planned to kill the child and herself.

Hours after the Guyana Police Force (GPF) tried to discredit claims by embattled Sergeant Dion Bascom that he was the person who presented then murder suspect Rondell Bacchus to Criminal Investigation Department (CID) ranks, Bacchus yesterday confirmed the lawman’s story.

Toshao of Chinese Landing Orin Fernandes has said officers from the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) and the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) who recently visited the community concluded that there are no glaring violations at the Tassawini mines.

Government wants local participation in the planned auction of available offshore oil blocks and is hoping for help from the United States with the process.

President of Suriname Chandrikapersad Santokhi on Friday, announced that his country will be making lands available to regional farmers in an effort to further CARICOM’s 25 by 2025 plan.

A 32-year-old man died early yesterday morning after he crashed his car into a truck along the Rupert Craig Highway.

Upper Demerara River businessman Wasir Mohammed, and international company Chemtech Limited have partnered and applied to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for permission to build a US$200 million Oil Refinery & Integrated Post Petrochemical Manufacturing Complex.

President Irfaan Ali on Friday sounded a warning that the region has to work collectively to fix the systems to address food sustainability and production.

In wake of concerns raised by the Attorney General, the Cuffy250 Committee has announced a one-week postponement of its planned forum on the state of African Guyanese, which was due to be held today.