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Kemo Scott, who had been on the run from police, was yesterday brought before a city court to face a charge for the murder of a Port Kaituma dredge owner, just over a month after his father was also charged with the crime.

Kevin Farrell, the driver of the minibus that crashed along the Herstelling Public Road on Tuesday, was yesterday charged with causing the death of his conductor, just one day after the man succumbed to his injuries.

The bullet-riddled body a Brazilian miner was found at Port Kaituma in the North West District on Thursday afternoon.

Police yesterday pulled the dead body of a man out of a trench at Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara.

WASHINGTON/HAVANA, (Reuters) – Americans traveling to Cuba will be allowed to bring home more of the communist-ruled island’s coveted cigars and rum under new measures announced by the U.S.

LES CAYES, (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew tore up large tracts of food crops as well as mature coffee and cocoa plantations when it ravaged Haiti’s fertile south last week, with a U.N.

CHARLOTTE, N.C./LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump yesterday charged that the women accusing him of sexual misconduct fabricated their stories to damage his campaign after two more women came forward with allegations that he had groped them.

A senior citizen was left traumatised yesterday after two gun-toting bandits attacked her shortly after she left the Bourda Post Office.

PRETORIA, (Reuters) – South Africa’s anti-graft watchdog has deferred release of a report into allegations of political interference by wealthy friends of Jacob Zuma in a move critics of the president fear could lead to a watering down of its conclusions.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro yesterday signed off on Venezuela’s 2017 budget, drawing fire from the opposition-led National Assembly which accused the unpopular leftist leader of despotism for bypassing the legislature.

An autopsy performed yesterday on the remains of farmer Infant Forrester, whose badly decomposed body was discovered on Wednesday at Craig Sea Dam, East Bank Demerara, was inconclusive.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haiti will hold the first round of its serially delayed presidential election on Nov.

Ten sponsors yesterday formally offered their support for the inaugural Coconut Festival, handing over cheques at simple ceremony, as the date for festival approaches.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) says it has taken note of the government’s intention to exercise its right under the Acquisition of Lands for Public Purposes Act to acquire private lands for public use.

Fugitive drug trafficker Barry Dataram and his common-law wife Anjanie Boodnarine were this morning arrested at a house in Suriname by law enforcement officers.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) says that preparations are currently underway to commence cultivating rice at the Wales Estate.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, supports Jamaican politicians who say the University of the West Indies’ (UWI) initial refusal to appear before a parliamentary committee must be used by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries to galvanise efforts to cut links with the British monarchy.

Attorney General Basil Williams yesterday denied that government has compulsorily acquired the private property at Middle and Carmichael streets, while saying the order issued to allow for surveying works was a prerequisite for negotiations with the owners.

President David Granger yesterday announced his administration’s upcoming legislative agenda, which includes the delinking of the immigration department from the Guyana Police Force.

At the conclusion of a parliamentary address in which he laid the troubles of the previous decade at the feet of the PPP/C, President David Granger yesterday voiced his hope for both sides of the National Assembly to find common ground but Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo cast doubt on his sincerity, while questioning what he has done to move the agenda forward.