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A date was yesterday set for a ruling in the trial of Pattensen businesswoman Sharlene Oxley, who is charged with human trafficking.

As the country has none, PAHO/WHO has committed to training two haematologists in an effort to promote early screening and diagnosis of sickle cell and thalassaemia blood disorders, GINA said.

The Mayor and City Council received a sum of $42 million in payments during the first two weeks of the recently concluded amnesty on interest accrued on unpaid property rates and discussions are ongoing about an extension.

KARUKWAT, Demo-cratic Republic of Congo,  (Reuters) – Charity Mandulu said the executions began soon after government soldiers – around 100 of them mostly from South Sudan President Salva Kiir’s Dinka ethnic group – arrived in her home town of Tore Payam.

MONTERREY, Mexico, (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s intervention to stop jobs at a plant in Indiana going to Mexico is typical of what happens in countries that Americans call “banana” republics, a senior Mexican state official said yesterday.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – One of the world’s biggest networks of hijacked computers, which is suspected of being used to attack online banking customers, has been taken down following police swoops in 10 countries, German police said yesterday.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Engineering firm Odebrecht SA signed a roughly 6.7 billion real ($1.94 billion) leniency deal on Thursday with prosecutors in Brazil’s biggest graft case while nearly 80 employees of the company signed plea bargains, sources said.

By Valrie Grant Entrepreneur, Managing Director, GeoTechVision and Chairperson Small Business Council Building strong and sustainable business relationships across borders was the theme of the Republic Banks’ Triangular Trade Mission which took place from November 28 – 29, 2016 at the Guyana Marriott Hotel. This

One of the suspects in the gunning down of West Ruimveldt resident Paul Rodney was arrested yesterday by the police.

A man was yesterday charged with stealing a little over $4 million in equipment from a mining company at Tumatumari.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka has torn up his United States green card and renounced his American residency in protest at Donald Trump’s U.S.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court indicted the president of the Senate, Renan Calheiros, yesterday for embezzlement, a ruling that is expected to fan growing tensions between the judiciary and Congress over corruption cases.

Guyana has agreed to a suggestion from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat to join with CARICOM member states to honour the late President of Cuba, Fidel Castroz, by having all National Flags flown at half-mast on Friday, December 2, 2016, a statement from the Ministry of the Presidency said.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Venezuela will be suspended from the Mercosur regional trade bloc as early as Friday for failing to meet membership requirements, a Brazilian official said, in the latest blow to the oil-producing country during a deep political and economic crisis.

A Brazilian national is in police custody assisting with the investigation into the alleged murder of his workmate, Kido Lewis, age unknown of Quataman Village, North Rupununi, whose body which bore multiple wounds, was discovered inside of a pit at Dukwari Backdam, Cuyuni River yesterday morning, the police say.

In its detailed analysis of budget 2017, chartered accounting firm Ram and McRae says the proposed budget measures if implemented will have a negative impact on the economy and growth.

(Trinidad Guardian)  Most of the human trafficking cases in T&T identified by the Ministry of National Security’s Counter Trafficking Unit (CTU) have been related to sexual exploitation, Alana Wheeler, CTU’s director, said yesterday.

A 61-year-old woman is now dead and a number of other persons, including three foreigners  were injured yesterday morning following a three-vehicle collision along the Mahaicony Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the EU-funded Seaport Cooperation Project (SEACOP) which aims at maritime trafficking and particularly the cocaine trade.

For USAID, November 28th marked the beginning of one five-year youth initiative aimed at reducing the involvement of Guyanese youth in crime and violence and the closing of another.