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The General Register Office (GRO) will soon begin creating a digitised database of records of birth dating back to 1896.

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – Judges yesterday convicted Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders of discrimination against Moroccans but levied no punishment in a ruling that could influence elections just three months away.

(Trinidad Express) The two men police were looking for in connection with the death of bank employee Shannon Banfield, were detained by police overnight.

A youth was yesterday sentenced to 36 months in jail after he admitted to stealing a schoolboy’s cellphone.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp Chief Executive Rex Tillerson emerged on Friday as President-elect Donald Trump’s leading candidate for U.S.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – A former director of Brazilian engineering firm Odebrecht SA told prosecutors that the company made several illegal contributions to politicians from the ruling PMDB party including President Michel Temer, according to a report aired last night by Globo TV.

An Alberttown man was on Thursday sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to stealing 20 five-gallon bottles of water and a tarpaulin.

(Trinidad Guardian) Joan Cheryl Cooper received death threats over a year ago, following an ongoing land dispute.

The Guyana Police Force is seeking the assistance of the public to locate Ravi Maniram, who is wanted for questioning in relation to fraud committed on the force earlier this year.

BATON ROUGE, La, (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump yesterday pledged to stop companies from abusing the visa process for foreign workers in a way that undermines the labour market for Americans.

Ravi Maniram, 42, is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to fraud committed on the Guyana Police Force which occurred between January 11 and February 01, 2016, the police say.

In a novel move, the Private Sector Commission and the two trade union bodies, the TUC and FITUG have written the Speaker of the National Assembly and the government and opposition sides of the House seeking dialogue on key provisions of the 2017 budget.

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) today defended its leader, Education Minister Dr Rupert Roopnaraine against suggestions of impropriety related to his directorship of the company which was established to undertake improvement works on D’Urban Park.

New York police are hoping new surveillance video will help them identify two men in connection with the murder of a  Guyanese city correction officer in Brooklyn.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – South Korean lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Friday to impeach President Park Geun-hye over an influence-peddling scandal, setting the stage for her to become the country’s first elected leader to be expelled from office in disgrace.

Michael Caesar, 34, called ‘Capone,’ was yesterday sentenced to spend the next 60 years in jail after pleading guilty to unlawfully killing a total of 20 persons in the Lusignan and Bartica massacres.

In a move to stabilise the foreign exchange market, the Bank of Guyana yesterday announced that it was temporarily halting the purchase of Trinidad and Barbados dollars from local cambios.

The APNU+AFC Govern-ment yesterday faced more embarrassing questions about a controversial bond deal when a parliamentary showdown resulted in an impromptu visit to the Sussex Street site and not a single tablet was seen by the MPs on the mission.

An 11-year-old first form student of the Tagore Memorial Secondary School died after a driver lost control of his car and struck him yesterday  around 5 pm.

A man was yesterday charged with the murders of Paul Rodney and Gregory Garraway, who were fatally shot in separate attacks in the city between October and November.