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Police say they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred about 0515h.

Police say they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred about 1300h.

Police are investigating a reported Robbery under Arms committed on Mark English 31 years, of 992 Providence, E.B.D,

This year’s top Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) performer is Fatima Karim of St Rose’s High.

(Trinidad Guardian) Chinese Association of T&T committee member, David Lee Kim, yesterday called on the police to go after the gangs at Santa Rosa Heights, Arima, who have been terrorising the community and targeting Chinese businesses.

There were “systemic failures at all levels” and the persons in charge of the Drop-In Centre (DIC) are collectively responsible for the state of affairs that led to the deaths of two young brothers in a fire at the centre in July, a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) has found.

Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region Six Dr Veerasammy Ramayya has resigned his position citing “unbearable” circumstances as the reason and has also signalled his intentions to resign from the Alliance For Change (AFC).

A garbage collection strike looms because of City Hall’s failure to pay its service providers over $250 million in debt to date.

Three years after she lost her right arm in a brutal attack that also claimed the lives of her two children, Nazalena Natasha Houston recently returned to Guyana from the US with her new prosthetic limb.

A La Parfaite/Harmonie man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was accused of having ganja for trafficking Shawn Koulen, 41, appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore where he was read a charge which stated that on August 11 at the Georgetown Prison, he had 400 grammes of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking.

Yesterday’s heavy rains did not prevent workers of the LBI and Enmore sugar estates from once again protesting in front of the Ministry of Presidency against the merging of the two entities as well as poor working conditions.

Several sections of the city suffered from flooding as a result of persistent rainfall during Monday night and yesterday morning.

Two men yesterday disappeared leaving behind a bag containing 15 pounds of marijuana at Sandvoort, West Canje, Berbice.

The police are expected to seek legal advice today in relation to laying of charges against the three persons who allegedly murdered 13-year-old Daveanand Sanichar on Sunday night.

A young mason was yesterday placed on $75,000 bail after he denied a charge of robbery using personal violence.

A weeping and seemingly confused Brazilian woman appeared before a city magistrate yesterday charged with illegally having one bullet in her possession and was remanded to prison.

Rolston Bacchus, who is accused of recruiting drug mules, was apprehended by police while in the company of Mark Sauers, who was actually the one the police had been seeking at the time.

A family outing ended deadly on Monday afternoon when a teenager died after her stepfather lost control of the car he was driving and slammed into a utility pole at Dundee Public Road, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A Brazilian Federal Supreme Court justice has authorized the opening of an investigation into President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for allegedly working to obstruct the course of a sweeping corruption probe, GloboNews news channel said yesterday.

A father and his two sons are expected to be charged jointly with attempted murder and inflicting grievous bodily harm as police wrap up investigations into the brutal chopping of three men in Mi Mi Dam Angoy’s Avenue on Sunday afternoon.