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A Guyanese man whose suitcase was found with cocaine at the top of his cooked rabbit at the John F Kennedy Airport in New York had the drug charge dismissed against him early last month by Judge Cheryl L.
(Trinidad Guardian) Thanks to help from the public, baby Ricardo Vijay has a bright future.
Road safety is now a priority in Lethem and surrounding communities in Region 9 that are seeing a greater volume of traffic daily.
The woman charged with neglecting her children at Kingelly, West Coast Berbice was fined $10,000 when she appeared at the Blairmont Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to the offence.
Robb Street handyman Warren James was remanded to prison yesterday on the charge that police found him with two grammes of cocaine while searching his premises.
A miner accused of having a gramme of cocaine in his possession was yesterday remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.
Water Street vendors operating illegally along the roadway have been advised to move again by the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) following an incident which left a Mocha Arcadia pensioner dead yesterday.
TRIPOLI/SFAX, Tunisia, (Reuters) – Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are staging a “massacre” in the besieged city of Misrata, evacuees said yesterday, as Libya said it was ready to discuss political reform, led by Gaddafi.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama declared himself a candidate for re-election in 2012 on Monday, jumping ahead of a slow-starting Republican field and hoping an economic recovery will boost his case for a new term.
ABIDJAN, (Reuters) – U.N. and French helicopters attacked Laurent Gbagbo’s last strongholds in Abidjan yesterday as forces loyal to Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara streamed into the city in a “final assault”.
ATLANTA/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. government will order emergency checks of some Boeing Co 737s for the kind of fatigue cracks that prompted Southwest Airlines Co to ground dozens of planes and cancel hundreds of flights after a hole opened in one of its jets.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – Japan has asked nuclear superpower Russia to send a special radiation treatment ship used to decommission nuclear submarines as it fights to contain the world’s worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl, Japanese media said late yesterday.
KINSHASA, (Reuters) – A United Nations plane crashed while trying to land at the airport serving Congo’s capital Kinshasa yesterday, killing 32 people, U.N.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Singer and political outsider Michel Martelly is the winner of Haiti’s presidential election, beating former first lady Mirlande Manigat, according to official preliminary results, a senior electoral council official said today.
Five persons today appeared in court over a huge heist at Guyana Stockfeeds Limited last week and an arrest warrant has been issued for a sixth person.
The police are investigating the murder of fisherman Krishnadat Khalandawell, 41 years of No.
A Venezuelan man identified as Francisco Silva died on Saturday in a fire at Aranka, Cuyuni.
(Trinidad Express) President George Maxwell Richards revoked the appointment of Police Service Commission (PSC) chairman Nizam Mohammed, this morning.
KINSHASA, (Reuters) – A United Nations plane crashed while trying to land at the airport serving Congo’s capital Kinshasa today, killing 32 people, U.N.
An unidentified man was this afternoon killed on the spot after a Mayor and City Council tractor ran over him on Water Street.
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