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A woman and her mother are now hospitalised after they were brutally chopped by her abusive ex-husband, who later committed suicide.

An employee of the Survival Supermarket was on Friday afternoon attacked by two bandits and robbed of a $2M payroll while returning from a city bank.

BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) – US-led coalition air strikes killed dozens of Syrian soldiers yesterday, Russia and a monitoring group said, putting a US-Russian brokered ceasefire in jeopardy and prompting an emergency UN Security Council meeting.

Government is giving the holder of the controversial Red House lease time to make “reasonable decisions,” failing which action will be taken, Attorney General Basil Williams said on Wednesday.

MARGARITA ISLAND, Venezuela (Reuters) – Only a handful of leaders have travelled to a meeting of a large Cold War-era bloc in Venezuela this week, in an embarrassment for the crisis-hit socialist government.

Six months after Minister of State Joseph Harmon travelled to China to settle the matter of $5M owed for the purchase of 20% of Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) shares, the outcome of the trip remains unclear.

YARI PLAINS, Colombia (Reuters) – Colombia’s Marxist FARC rebels will continue their fight for social justice under a peace deal with the government, its top commander said yesterday at the opening of the group’s final congress as an armed group.

The government is still considering setting up a law school here, according to Attorney-General Basil Williams, who says that its recent financial contribution to the Hugh Wooding Law School is temporary.

No convictions yet (Trinidad Guardian) Between 2011 and 2015 the Financial Intelligence Unit analysed 2,341 suspicious activity reports with a dollar value of approximately TT$3.7 billion.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Portia Simpson Miller has been returned as president of the People’s National Party (PNP) following a landslide victory over her challenger, Dr Karl Blythe.

Police are currently searching for the suspect in the murder of a Brazilian gold miner, who was fatally chopped at Sourie Backdam, Puruni, on Friday evening.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A 17-year-old has committed doctor-assisted suicide in Belgium, the first minor to do so under rules adopted in 2014 allowing euthanasia for people of all ages, the head of the national committee for euthanasia said yesterday.

Ombudsman, retired Justice Winston Moore passed away yesterday. The Ministry of the Presidency today issued the following message of condolence.

A twenty four year old male suspect who is a security guard of MMC Security Service, is in custody as police continue investigations of the fatal shooting of another MMC Security Personnel, who has been identified as Herbert Verwayne, 36 yrs.,

The Police say they are investigating the murder of Helio Batista Xavier Neves, 47 yrs.,

The Police say they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred about 19:30h.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Central Bank yesterday estimated that the T&T economy contracted by 5.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2016, compared with the same quarter in 2015, as a result of a 9.1 per cent decline in the energy sector and a 2.8 per cent decline in the non-energy sector, according to the July 2016 Economic Bulletin, which was released yesterday.

Government yesterday formalised a deal through which the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) will recover $5.6B which it had lost in 2009 through reckless investing by the now defunct CLICO (Guyana) and taxpayers will have to foot the bill.

Former Region Six Regional Executive Officer (REO), Dr Veerasammy Ramayya yesterday rejected suggestions that his performance had been substandard and he charged that AFC leaders Khemraj Ramjattan and Moses Nagamootoo have failed the people.

Armed bandits yesterday stole $3M in cash during an early morning home invasion at Edinburgh Village, East Bank Berbice, during which they broke the arm of a pensioner before leaving him and his daughter bound and gagged.