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It is up to the police to determine whether former president Bharrat Jagdeo has immunity in the Pradoville 2 probe, according to State Minister Joseph Harmon, who yesterday argued that the constitutional protection cannot necessarily save a president from judicial intervention and criminal prosecution.

With questions mounting as to how the national procurement board was unaware of a $605M emergency drug purchase for the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC), the Ministry of Public Health yesterday deferred the promised release of a statement providing an explanation.

Police in Berbice say they have foiled a plot to murder a well-known Rose Hall Town, Corentyne businessman and three men, including the suspected hitman, are in custody, while the person who allegedly contracted him is still being sought.

President David Granger yesterday appointed six of the seven members of a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into Land Ownership.

British High Commis-sioner to Guyana Greg Quinn yesterday said that Irish consultant Dr Sam Sittlington is serving in an advisory and training capacity at the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) and not in an operational role.

The wife of Troy Simmons, the man who was fatally shot by a security guard after an attempted robbery at the GuyGas Inc.

One of the prosecution’s main witnesses in the trial of Christopher Da Silva, who is accused of murdering teenager Reyad Khan, yesterday recanted his story of seeing the two in a scuffle moments before the killing.

The reportedly ‘missing’ police corporal, who has been implicated in connection with the smuggling of an AK-47 rifle out of the Tactical Services Unit (TSU) compound, at Eve Leary, yesterday afternoon turned himself over to the police in the company of his lawyer.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions abruptly asked the remaining 46 chief federal prosecutors left over from the Obama administration to resign yesterday, including Manhattan U.S.

Two years on, disappointment and pain continue to mar the lives of the parents of Courtney Crum-Ewing, who was murdered in what many believe was a politically-motivated hit.

One year after a gallstone surgery left her in a vegetative state at the Lethem Regional Hospital, Shulinab resident Thelma Ribeiro has died.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Pope Francis has said he is willing to consider ordaining older married men as priests in isolated communities, but has ruled out making celibacy optional to tackle a shortage of clergy.

The apparent recycling of a message by Junior Education Minister Nicolette Henry made for some confusion during the Department of Culture’s Phagwah celebration yesterday, when she referred to the holiday as “Diwali” and “the Festival of Lights” multiple times during her speech.

(Reuters) – A U.S. federal court yesterday refused to put an emergency halt to Republican President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, saying lawyers from states opposed to the measure needed to file more extensive court papers.

A second man was yesterday charged with the murder of Festival City resident Christopher Wharton, who was shot dead execution-style while sitting on the stairs of his home in November of 2015.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Foreign ministers and other officials from 25 Caribbean countries met in Havana yesterday to discuss a joint response in the face of Trump administration threats to migrants and trade.

Police are searching for three suspects who robbed an overseas-based couple in an armed attack at Brickery, East Bank Demerara, on Wednesday afternoon, just hours after they arrived in the country.

  WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States and Mexico will launch a new round of negotiations to resolve a years-long trade dispute over Mexico’s sugar exports to the United States, senior officials in both governments said yesterday.

Armed bandits robbed the Shell gas station at Ogle, East Coast Demerara early yesterday morning, after they tied up the security guard.

  NEW DELHI, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – India will more than double maternity leave, allow work from home and require employers to have crèches to improve maternal and child health and boost a declining female workforce.