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Kiev Chesney, a former sports reporter, was on Friday admitted to the bar before Justice James Bovell Drakes.

PARIS (Reuters) – Iran has kept to a nuclear deal it agreed with six world powers last year limiting its stockpiles of substances that could be used to make atomic weapons, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told French daily Le Monde.

CARTAGENA, Colombia, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s fast-escalating political crisis and Colombia’s stuttering peace process dominated the Ibero-American Summit on Saturday, despite an official agenda about youth, entrepreneurship and education.

More than seventy farmers yesterday received land leases as the Mahaica Mahaicony Abary Agriculture Development Authority (MMA/ADA) hosted its annual open day, GINA said.

The suspect in the rape of a 28 year old female which occurred last Saturday and who was on the run, has been arrested, the police said.

(Trinidad Guardian) An influx of “shady characters” in the once quiet community of California, Central Trinidad, is what residents are blaming for the murder of businesswoman Anisha Ali, who was shot dead by bandits who raided their bar yesterday.

The APNU+AFC government yesterday said that a special team is to be set up to ensure the prosecution of criminal offences connected to the sale of land at the ‘Pradoville 2’ scheme, where former President Bharrat Jagdeo and a string of current and former senior officials have houses.

Describing the crime situation as of “national concern,” the Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday called on the president and the government to not only publicly admit there is a problem but to send a strong signal to criminals that crime will not be tolerated.

Two persons are now dead after the minibus they were traveling in reportedly slammed into the back of a truck along the Linden-Soesdyke Highway last evening.

Members of the public are being invited to meet government ministers at the PNCR’s headquarters and party General Secretary Oscar Clarke sees no problem with the potential merging of state and party interests.

In the face of criticisms of the decision to temporarily convene Cabinet meetings at the Guyana Defence Force’s headquarters at Camp Ayanganna, State Minister Joseph Harmon yesterday defended the move, while reiterating the need for confidentiality.

Neil Boodram was yesterday sentenced to 15 years in jail for what Justice Roxane George called the “senseless killing” of Madan Kumar Sahadeo, which was fueled by “drunken foolishness.”

Vendors have been asked to temporarily remove from the Parliament View Mall to cater for a reorganisation but some are fearful that they will not be allowed to return.

The man who survived Thursday’s Sophia drive-by shooting, which claimed the life of his friend, has been discharged from the hospital.

A dredge owner, charged with killing another man at Agricola last year March, yesterday told a city court that he was beaten by the police to sign a confession.

Police are seeking to determine how an eight-year-old girl was shot at her home in the New Amsterdam Technical Institute residential compound last evening.

As old tyres continue to pile up at the Haags Bosch Sanitary Landfill, the Ministry of Communities is seeking to encourage persons to take up the challenge of finding alternative uses for them.

Amazonia Swimming Pool Company yesterday announced that it was pulling its investment from Guyana following the City Council’s decision to remove four large swimming pools that were encumbering reserves on Sheriff Street.

A delegation comprising representatives from the private sector and the Government of Guyana departs today for Cuba to attend the FIHAV (Havana International Fair) 2016 in a bid to improve business relations between the countries.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The FBI is investigating more emails as part of a probe into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email system, it said yesterday, in a new twist that could damage the Democratic candidate in the 2016 presidential race.