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A Plaisance woman was yesterday remanded to prison after she was charged with attempting to take 2.5 kilogrammes of cocaine to Canada through the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.

A computer technician who was caught at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport trying to smuggle a quantity of cocaine to Bermuda, was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $4.1 million after he pleaded guilty to the offence in a city court.

– total of $798M owed Minister of Finance Winston Jordan yesterday said that the $500 million budgeted to pay debts owed by Homestretch Development Incorporated (HDI) for the controversial D’Urban Park project is the full and final settlement the government is willing to make.

Three dancers at a popular nightclub were yesterday charged with over forged entries in their passports and overstaying their time in Guyana.

A young woman has condemned members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) for their desultory action that resulted in the taxi driver who allegedly robbed her evading arrest yesterday morning.

Low oil prices have significantly improved the fortunes of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) which was once a financial “troublemaker” for the government.

Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira has accused the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples Affairs of being “frugal” in its provision of funds for the National Toshaos Council (NTC) despite a massive increase in the monies allocated to support local organisations.

Logos Hope, the world’s largest floating book fair, is scheduled to arrive in Guyana today, and will bring along with it knowledge, help and hope.

As the police work towards wrapping up their investigation into the eight-month-old murders of Good Hope, East Bank Essequibo farmers, Mohamed and Jamilla Munir, who were burnt to death in their home, a fifth suspect was on Sunday detained for questioning.

ANKARA (Reuters) – The Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov was shot in the back and killed as he gave a speech at an Ankara art gallery yesterday by an off-duty police officer who shouted “Don’t forget Aleppo” and “Allahu Akbar” as he opened fire.

The family of Faiyaz Narinedatt, who was found lying lifeless on the Number 70 Village Public Road, Corentyne on November 1 is patiently waiting on the police to have key suspect Marcus Brian Bisram returned to the country for questioning.

BOLIVAR/TACHIRA, Venezuela (Reuters) – Soldiers patrolled streets, neighbours mounted barricades and businessmen raked through damaged shops yesterday in parts of Venezuela worst hit from violence sparked by a cash shortage.

BERLIN (Reuters) – A truck ploughed into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin last evening, killing 12 people and injuring 48 others in what Germany’s interior minister said looked like an attack.

Police on the West Bank Demerara are currently investigating a robbery committed on the New World Supermarket, a Chinese-owned business located at Independence Street, La Grange last Friday, allegedly by three armed bandits.

Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday announced that she will rule next month on whether a prima facie case has been made out against the three accused in the Kaieteur News grenade attack.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will face a fifth corruption trial, a judge ruled yesterday, as charges pile up against the man seen as a front-runner to win the 2018 presidential election.

PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde escaped punishment and kept her job yesterday despite a conviction on negligence charges over a state payout made while she served as France’s finance minister in 2008.

SAO PAULO/MONTREAL (Reuters) – Brazil unveiled a probable challenge against Canadian regional and government funding for Bombardier Inc at the World Trade Organization, reviving a bitter trade feud between the Canadian jetmaker and Brazilian rival Embraer SA.

An autopsy performed yesterday on the remains of poultry farm worker Krishna Surujlall, who died last Friday, two days after he was crushed by a metal silo at his workplace, revealed that he died as a result on multiple injuries to the abdomen.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Thousands of people were evacuated from the last rebel-held enclave of Aleppo yesterday in return for insurgents allowing people to leave two besieged pro-government villages in nearby Idlib province.