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Police are searching for a man who has been positively identified from video surveillance footage as one of the men involved in the robbery of a Chinese Supermarket in South Ruimveldt Gardens on Wednesday.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazilian police are seeking the arrest of fallen commodities tycoon Eike Batista as part of a vast political bribery probe, investigators said yesterday, adding that the former billionaire appeared to have already flown to New York.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Jamaica Information Service) — The agricultural sector is aiming to supply 100 per cent of local demand for Irish potato in another three years.

One of the men arrested after the robbery of a Crane, West Coast Demerara family was positively identified yesterday during an identification parade.

(Reuters) – Employees from more than a dozen U.S. government agencies have established a network of unofficial “rogue” Twitter feeds in defiance of what they see as attempts by President Donald Trump to muzzle federal climate change research and other science.

Colin Alleyne, the man accused of battering to death elderly Montrose caretaker Danrasie Ganesh, was on Wednesday beaten by fellow prisoners after he reportedly made threats and hurled insults at other inmates and prison staff.

CHENNAI, India,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It took 8,500 men working two shifts every day for six months – and three shifts for two months – to finish, ahead of schedule, the Adani Group’s giant solar power plant in southern India.

(Trinidad Guardian) Richard Ramlal was killed execution-style. A single bullet to the back of his head, fired at close range, was the only wound to the body, forensic pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov, who conducted the autopsy on Ramlal’s body, said on Wednesday.

The PPP today called on the government to scrap the parking meters project.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Jamaica Scorpions defeated Guyana Jaguars by 41 runs, in the day/night sixth game of the Regional Super50 at Kensington Oval here today.

The opposition PPP today called on the government to rescind proposed hikes in MMA-ADA rents and charges.

MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Mexico’s president today scrapped a planned summit with Donald Trump in the face of insistent tweets from the U.S.

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo today distanced himself from “perceived scurrilous” attacks in the state-owned Guyana Chronicle against Chancellor of the Judiciary, Carl Singh and stressed the importance of the separation of powers.

(Trinidad Guardian) Richard Ramlal was killed execution-style. A single bullet to the back of his head, fired at close range, was the only wound to the body, forensic pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov, who conducted the autopsy on Ramlal’s body, said yesterday.

Six attorneys have been issued fiats to prosecute a number of high profile matters, including the Omar Shariff case, and will be working closely with the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU).

Even though its rating has increased giving it the best score since 2012, Guyana is still listed in the very corrupt category in the latest Transparency International Corruption Index Report; its ranking is 108 out of 176 countries with a score of 34, the highest it has ever scored.

Attorney General Basil Williams SC, while denying that he has been publicly attacking outgoing Chancellor (ag) Carl Singh and the judiciary, yesterday said that he was trying to clean up the mess left behind by the PPP/C administration.

Four bandits invaded a residence at Crane, West Coast Demerara on Tuesday night and robbed a family of over a million dollars in jewellery and cash at gunpoint, and two 19-year-old suspects have since been arrested.

Charged with firearm and ammunition possession in 2016, a man was yesterday sentenced to four years in jail and fined $120,000, after changing his plea to guilty.

Two men already on remand, along with another, were taken before the Chief Magistrate and read three armed robbery charges, where they allegedly stole over $1 million worth of items.