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The police in Berbice have held a second suspect in connection with the robbery of the Number 79 cambio dealer Davendra Churaman, from whom bandits stole over $22 million in local and foreign currency last month.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The top U.S. intelligence official said yesterday he was “even more resolute” in his belief that Russia staged cyber attacks on Democrats during the 2016 election campaign, rebuking persistent skepticism from Republican President-elect Donald Trump about whether Moscow was involved.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition, still smarting from its failure to remove President Nicolas Maduro last year, installed a new congress head yesterday who demanded across-the-board elections and sought military help to end “dictatorship”.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A Haitian politician and former coup leader wanted for alleged drug trafficking and money laundering in the United States was arrested yesterday, a police source said, days before he was slated to take up a Senate seat.

MANAUS/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian prosecutors yesterday demanded a multi-million dollar private prison contract in Amazonas state be axed due to signs of corruption as the government blamed mismanagement for the country’s bloodiest prison massacre in decades.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police have described a gun attack at a birthday party in Freeport as botched hit, as the intended target survived with life-saving injuries.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The United States government, through its embassy here, has reportedly turned over ‘hard evidence’ to the Andrew Holness administration on why it should revoke the spectrum licence to Symbiote Investments Limited, the Jamaican company that wants to become a provider of telecoms services.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell to near a 43 year-low last week, pointing to further tightening in the labor market.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka should bring in international prosecutors and judges to help investigate alleged atrocities in the civil war that ended in 2009, a task force said yesterday in recommendations that were welcomed by the United Nations.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – A U.N. mission supervising the demobilization of Colombia’s Marxist FARC rebels fired four staff yesterday after they were seen dancing with guerrilla fighters at a New Year celebration.

Alfie Garraway, Janiel Howard and Leroy Williams, the three men accused of throwing a grenade outside the Kaieteur News offices, were today committed to stand trial for the crime.

A Board of Inquiry (BOI) into allegations of mismanagement and malpractices in the procurement of pharmaceuticals at the Ministry of Public Health has recommended the removal of current Permanent Secretary, Trevor Thomas and strongly recommended that the representative of a Trinidadian company be debarred from future tenders.

Three persons are now dead and three others including a foreign national are hospitalised following a head-on collision which occurred last evening along the Linden/Soesdyke High-way.

It is a travesty that during Guyana’s 50 years of independence, no woman lawyer was ever named a Senior Counsel (SC), President David Granger said yesterday, moments after presenting Instruments of Appointment to eight of the nine legal practitioners, who he recently elevated to this status.

A Corentyne man attached to the Guyana Power and Light Inc.

The Cheddi Jagan Research Centre Inc (CJRCI) has expressed gratitude to the public for the support it has received over the planned revocation by the government of its Red House lease and said it is optimistic that it has a strong legal case.

A pork knocker yesterday appeared before a city Magistrate charged with the murder of a Brazilian who was lured to his mining operation located at Chinese Creek Backdam, Mazaruni River, where he was attacked and chopped to death by a group of five men.

President David Granger yesterday confirmed that he was in possession of a list of judicial nominees to fill four positions and said that an announcement will be made when the time is right.

Police Corporal, Osmund Paul, who survived the 2008 deadly attack at Bartica, in which 12 persons were killed, including three of his colleagues, yesterday recounted the incident to Justice Roxane George SC and a jury.

Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson says that the Government of Guyana will make a pronouncement this month on the recommendations of the Norconsult report which has come down heavily in favour of continuing with the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP).