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The former reputed wife of Hamid Latiff, called ‘Crapo’ who is on trial before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow for the 2010 murder of her 16-year old brother, testified yesterday that she had seen Latiff and her brother on a dam, shortly before pulling her brother’s bloodied body from a nearby trench.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday announced several contracts that government gave its no objection to, at last Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday said that as soon as the National Assembly is reconvened and the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) completes Terms of Reference (ToR) for the Public Procurement Commission, President David Granger will swear in its members.

Government has selected its nominees and prepared the infrastructure for the establishment of the Local Government Commis-sion, according to State Minister Joseph Harmon, who said the constitutional body would be “established soon” but would not give a date.

A second person is being questioned by the police in connection with the murder of taxi driver Rolun Jodmie.

LES CAYES, Haiti/PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew has killed at least 283 people in Haiti, including dozens in one coastal town that authorities and rescue workers were only beginning to reach days after the storm, officials said yesterday.

BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) – Rebels holed up in Aleppo can leave with their families if they lay down their arms, President Bashar al-Assad said yesterday, vowing to press on with the assault on Syria’s largest city and recapture full control of the country.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan doctors yesterday warned of a diphtheria outbreak in the crisis-stricken country, calling on the government to boost availability of scarce vaccines and antibiotics to stem the disease which local media and the opposition report has killed some two dozen people.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Americans were swindled out of tens of millions of dollars in an alleged tax scam that was run for about a year from call centres on the outskirts of Mumbai, a senior investigator said yesterday, predicting more arrests on top of the 70 made so far.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Colin Alleyne, the man accused of killing elderly Montrose caretaker Danrasie Ganesh, has been adjourned until next year due to his erratic behaviour in court yesterday during a review of video footage.

A jury has been empanelled for the High Court trial of the five men accused of the massacre of 12 people at Bartica in 2008.

LONDON (Reuters) – Officials from the US government’s health research agency are to be questioned by a congressional committee about why taxpayers are funding a World Health Organization cancer agency facing criticism over how it classifies carcinogens.

A man was yesterday sentenced to four years in jail and fined $5.7 million after being found guilty of possession of cannabis for trafficking.

A Nismes man, who is accused of abusing the mother of his child, was yesterday granted bail after his lawyer claimed that he was only trying to defend himself.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s top court has approved a request by prosecutors to split the investigation of dozens of politicians implicated in the sprawling Petrobras corruption scandal by grouping them by the main parties that prosecutors allege received kickbacks.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Girls between the ages of five and 14 are spending 40 per cent more time on unpaid domestic chores than boys their age, missing out on chances to learn and enjoy their childhood, according to a report today ahead of International Day of the Girl.

LES CAYES, Haiti/PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew has killed at least 339 people in Haiti, including dozens in one coastal town that authorities and rescue workers were only beginning to reach days after the storm, officials said on Thursday.

President David Granger is to address Parliament on Thursday, October 13.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) says it will be meeting with a team from China Harbour Engineering Ltd.

A Barbadian man, Frederick Christopher Hawkesworth who had been accused of involvement in a drug ring with several Guyanese in 2004 was found dead on the island on Saturday with a suspected bullet wound to the head.