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A 25-year-old man who was a member of staff at the Camp Street prison and who allegedly took cigarettes and narcotics into the jail was placed on $100,000 bail after he made his court appearance before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
Housing development planner Fazil Ramzan last Thursday had the eight obtaining money by false pretence charges against him dismissed.
Neal and Massy Service Limited (NMSL) yesterday launched its first ever Electronic Security/Safety Expo at their Ruimveldt Staff facilities.
The West Berbice Private School Association was set up earlier this month.
A Detective Corporal yesterday testified as the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder of schoolgirl Neesa Gopaul continued.
Businessman Malcolm Panday this afternoon revealed in a statement to the media that a close female relative was the mastermind of Tuesday’s brazen attack at his Bel Air house during which millions of dollars were stolen.
Police in E&F Division are on the hunt for three men who inflicted a severe beating on a miner they had accused of stealing a missing grass cutter.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – An airplane crashed shortly after take-off from Brazil’s northeastern city of Recife early today, killing all 16 people on board, rescue and air force officials said.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch withdrew his bid for British broadcaster BSkyB today in the face of cross-party hostility in parliament following allegations of widespread criminality at one of his tabloid newspapers.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Three bomb blasts rocked crowded districts of Mumbai during rush hour today, killing at least 13 people, a senior official said, in the biggest attack on India’s financial capital since 2008 assaults blamed on Pakistan-based militants.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez acknowledged for the first time today he may need radiotherapy or chemotherapy for cancer treatment that has rattled the OPEC member nation he has dominated for 12 years.
The GPSU is threatening to call out its workers from the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) lab today after fumes of an unknown origin resurfaced this morning.
The community of Adventure on the Essequibo Coast is in a state of shock today after the lifeless bodies of a 25-year old automotive technician and his two children were found in a backdam area behind the community this morning.
(Trinidad Guardian) Drug cheats can expect to face the full penalty when the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) starts regular testing of players involved in regional cricket next season.
(Trinidad Express) Minister of Works and Infrastructure Jack Warner has lost a large portion of his original portfolio to Transport Minister Devant Maharaj.
(Jamaica Observer) More than 100 graves in the May Pen Cemetery in Kingston were desecrated over the weekend by scrap metal thieves, according to the capital city’s mayor, Desmond McKenzie.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The United States Embassy in Kingston has revoked the visitor’s visa of Justin O’Gilvie, the former business associate of alleged drug kingpin Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.
(Barbados Nation) Regional governments have been urged to pass laws that would give full recognition to the Cuban medical programme.
(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – the Surinamese government has “problems” with the 2006 treaty between Suriname and France that allows police of both countries to be present as observers 2 kilometers land inwards each others’ territories.
(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Police intercepted almost 18 kilos of cocaine in 5 freight containers on Johan Adolf Pengel-Airport on Saturday.
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