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Aerosucre S.A., a Colombian cargo airline, has announced the launch of scheduled cargo operations in Guyana, offering   services directly between Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico.

-wants independent probe of his allegations Facing over 200 criminal charges, Assistant Commissioner of Police Calvin Brutus yesterday launched civil proceedings for misfeasance in public office against senior members of the GPF and SOCU and called for an independent inquiry into his claims.

Thirty-seven-year-old Herman Junior Nickels, a security officer, appeared yesterday before Chief Magistrate (ag) Faith McGusty on charges of assisting others in human trafficking.

(Trinidad Guardian) bp has been awarded the NCMA 2 block offshore Trinidad as part of the Shallow Water 2023/24 bid round that closed in May 2024.

Commissioner of Police (Ag)  Clifton Hicken has welcomed the return of five ranks of the Guyana Police Force who completed the New York Police Department (NYPD) Police Academy’s Driver Education Training Programme, which was conducted from November 11 to 14, 2024 at the NYPD Academy in Bloomfield, Brooklyn, United States of America.

Biometric voting could only be introduced here if there are constitutional changes, Attorney General Anil Nandlall has stressed, adding that in raising the issue again, the opposition is just attempting to misdirect the public before elections.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – More than two dozen suspected gang members were killed in Haiti’s capital yesterday after residents joined police to fight off an attempted overnight attack on an affluent hillside suburb of Port-au-Prince, police said.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The two policemen charged for the recent shooting deaths of two men and a teen boy along Windward Road in Kingston were today remanded for a bail application on December 17.

President Irfaan Ali said that his government’s flagship gas-to-energy project was not highlighted at his Tuesday 5:30 am meeting with officials over delayed infrastructure projects as it is currently at arbitration but the government is forging ahead with ensuring that electricity tariffs are cut by 50% even before the project’s turn-on date.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) –  Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva yesterday urged leaders of the Group of 20 major economies to accelerate their national climate targets, calling on them to reach net zero climate emissions five to 10 years ahead of schedule.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday called Venezuela’s Edmundo Gonzalez the country’s “president-elect” for the first time, signaling that Washington wants to step up pressure on incumbent President Nicolas Maduro.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said yesterday that he had chosen television personality and surgeon Dr.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – The Argentine government will call for a national and international public tender to privatize its stretch of the Paraguay-Parana waterway through a 30-year concession, cabinet chief Guillermo Francos said yesterday.

Lennox Gowen, known as `Nunkie’ of 572 Avocado Street, Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was arrested by Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers on Monday over the possession of 3.8 kgs of cocaine.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here last night to a 21-gun salute.

Putin issues warning to United States with new nuclear doctrine MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin today lowered the threshold for a nuclear strike in response to a broader range of conventional attacks, and Moscow said Ukraine had struck deep inside Russia with U.S.-made

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s High Court today  jailed 45 pro-democracy activists for up to 10 years following a national security trial that has damaged the city’s once feisty democracy movement and drawn criticism from the United States and other countries.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian police today arrested five people, including a member of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s cabinet, suspected of involvement in an alleged plan to kill then-President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in 2022, days before he took office.

One person died this morning after an accident involving two trucks on Sheriff Street.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (ag) Calvin Brutus was yesterday charged with 201 additional financial crimes, bringing the total number of charges against him to 231.