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CHENNAI, India, (Reuters) – Masses of grieving supporters wailed, beat their chests and cast flowers yesterday as actress-turned-politician Jayaram Jayalalithaa, one of India’s most powerful leaders, was buried on the shorefront in Chennai.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The president of Brazil’s Senate refused yesterday to accept a Supreme Court injunction removing him from office, pushing the country towards a constitutional crisis as it struggles to end political gridlock and an economic recession.

(Trinidad Express) Three people survived the crash that killed six men on the Churchill Roosevelt Highway in O’Meara on Monday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro on Monday signed an historic gas deal here, which will allow T&T access to gas reserves from Venezuela’s Dragon Fields.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A Surinamese man convicted of acting as the “right-hand man” to the son of the country’s president during a scheme to send large amounts of cocaine to the United States was sentenced yesterday to 11-1/4 years in a U.S.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – A former Haitian coup leader wanted by the U.S.

A 29 years old male supervisor is presently nursing a gunshot wound to his right thigh, having been robbed and shot by one of two bandits in the vicinity of the Ministry of Finance about 1255h.today,

GAWU today accused the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc (GuySuCo) of adopting another manoeuvre to subvert the Collective Bargaining process in the sugar industry.

(Trinidad Guardian) Mexico’s cement giant, Cemex, yesterday morning announced that it will be making a takeover bid for Claxton Bay-based Trinidad Cement Ltd.

Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton said yesterday that the recent death of a nine-year-old child from Kako Village, in Region Seven was due to brain damage and not meningitis as previously suspected.

A US-based Guyanese man was yesterday charged with murder after nearly decapitating his wife during the course of an argument in Richmond Hill, Queens, New York.

A Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) resident was tragically killed on Sunday evening after she was crushed by a concrete wall which collapsed in the bathroom area of her house which is currently under renovation.

In a bid to make certain that revenues from oil and gas are properly spent, drafts of eight key policies and laws are due for completion by December 31.

PPP/C parliamentarian Irfaan Ali yesterday took aim at government’s proposed $250 billion budget, saying it was “saturated with taxes” that will “suffocate” both traditional and non-traditional businesses next year.

A 33-year-old man who operates a Chinese restaurant and bar at Main and Chapel streets, New Amsterdam was yesterday placed on $75,000 bail when he appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Alex Moore charged with wounding.

Two teens who were charged with two counts of armed robbery, including a carjacking, are now awaiting sentencing after they were found guilty of both offences yesterday.

A 60-year-old woman was one of two persons who were sentenced to three years in jail and fined $8.4 million yesterday after they pleaded guilty to aiding in the trafficking of ganja.

Truck driver Lloyd Gregory Williams, who is accused of causing the death of a woman along the East Bank Demerara last Friday, was yesterday granted $500,000 bail after denying the charge.

A second suspect was yesterday arrested for questioning in connection with the murder of West Ruimveldt resident Paul Rodney, and the High Court also granted the police an extension to further detain the first suspect.

The Government Analyst Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) is currently reviewing a new label for the Wieting and Richter (W&R) Ltd, which had been using an illegal labels on its bottled water.