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A taxi driver, who admitted to accidentally causing the death of another man, was yesterday sentenced to four years in jail time for the crime.

A teenage boy was yesterday remanded to prison on a robbery charge.

SAO PAULO/BEIJING (Reuters) – China and the European Union curtailed meat imports from Brazil yesterday after police, in an anti-corruption probe criticized by the government as alarmist, accused inspectors in the world’s biggest exporter of beef and poultry of taking bribes to allow sales of rotten and salmonella-tainted meats.

US Deputy Chief of Mission Terry Steers-Gonzalez last week met with International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) alumna Marcelle Fowler-Thomas, a Senior Reporter at Stabroek News, and was briefed on her experiences during the Investigative Journalism tour of the United States.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration is considering sweeping sanctions aimed at cutting North Korea off from the global financial system as part of a broad review of measures to counter Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile threat, a senior US official said yesterday.

GAWU says that a group of 40 cane planters were told by GuySuCo today that there was no work for them at the East Demerara Estate, a sure sign the union said that the estate is to be shuttered.

The Police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Vishaul Zakaroo also known as “Daniel”, 18 years, a mechanic of 85 North Yakusari, Black Bush Polder, Corentyne, Berbice which occurred about 23:00hrs last night in the said village, by his 22 year old brother, who has since been arrested.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The head of the FBI publicly challenged U.S.

A bandit was fatally wounded by a licensed firearm holder shortly after midnight yesterday, at Belvoir Court, Georgetown during an attempted robbery.

With the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) still to pronounce on the $605M drug purchase sanctioned by Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence, former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran has called on the commission to launch an immediate investigation.

Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence’s fast-tracking of emergency drugs for the Georgetown Public Hospital saw not only the lion’s share of $605m going to ANSA McAl but purchases of the same drugs at varying prices from several of the companies.

Noting former President Bharrat Jagdeo’s recent invoking of presidential immunity, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA)  on Friday reiterated its historical opposition to the inclusion of Presidential Immunity in the Constitution.

“Men must provide for their children, they must become the cornerstones of happy homes.

Declaring that the application before it was hopeless, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has rejected a bid by a sister to appeal a case against her brother pertaining to a property, citing delays.

Contending that the revised draft code of conduct for ministers and others in public life is “too bland and generalized”, the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) last Friday said it finds that no reference is made about the declaration of assets.

Three months after Banks DIH employee Matthew Scott was shot and killed in front of his home while running to the aid of his sister and a neighbour, the family still remains uncertain as to the progress of the case.

Work on the Liliendaal Bridge, Turkeyen is moving apace and contractors are expected to complete reconstruction by July.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers from both parties said yesterday they had seen no proof to support the claim by Republican President Donald Trump that his predecessor Barack Obama had wiretapped him last year, adding pressure on Trump to explain or back off his repeated assertion.

The City Engineer’s Department is currently looking at an application made by call centre Teleperformance to operate a parking lot for employees, a source has told Stabroek News.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – A saffron-robed Hindu holy man was sworn in yesterday to lead India’s most populous state, sealing what appears to be a shift in course by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that could redefine the world’s largest democracy as a Hindu nation.