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A Plantation Grove woman who was charged in February with three counts of trafficking a 16-year-old girl for labour, will hear the Chief Magistrate’s decision on July 29.

The Ministry of Natural Resources yesterday launched its Mining Safety Seminar under the theme ‘Putting Safety First in Mining: charting a course to cultivate compliance and strengthen enforcement.’

The Georgetown Stabroek Leo Club will host a training programme for fathers and young men starting on Saturday at the Girls Guides Pavilion.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Theresa May became Britain’s prime minister yesterday with the task of leading it out of the European Union, and quickly named leading ‘Brexit’ supporters including former London mayor Boris Johnson to key positions in her new government.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s PDVSA is investigating U.S. allegations of a $1 billion bribery conspiracy involving the state oil company and has found there was fraud in procurement processes, according to a report of its 2015 results.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan oil output is set to fall by around a tenth this year due to power shortages, a cash crunch and a drop in activity at foreign oil service companies, the International Energy Agency said yesterday.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is confident that Jamaica can offer support in the development of local crime and security intelligence-gathering strategies and techniques.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney for Manhattan Preet Bharara said yesterday that “millions of people” across the country believe their police departments are biased against them and that he had not shied away from charging officers for misconduct.

(Trinidad Express) On August 19, the High Court will deliver judgment on whether the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) acted contrary to law when it extended the regular voting time by an additional hour during last September’s general election and whether fresh elections should take place in five marginal constituencies based on that illegality.

(Reuters) – An Egyptian kebab shop owner in New Zealand has become an internet hit after a video of him ignoring a would-be robber and continuing to serve a customer went viral, drawing more than a quarter of a million views.

As the prosecution winds down its case in the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing, ballistics evidence was yesterday presented before the court.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – El Salvador’s Supreme Court yesterday declared as unconstitutional a 1993 law that prohibited the prosecution of crimes committed by the military and leftist guerillas during the Central American country’s bloody civil war.

(Barbados Nation) Pay up some of the millions of dollars owed to us.

A Colombian national was yesterday ordered to pay a fine of $30,000 or risk being thrown in jail for 4 weeks for overstaying her welcome in Guyana.

Randolph Thompson, a fish vendor who was serving a sentence for intent to commit a felony, was yesterday found guilty of escaping from lawful custody and sentenced to two years in prison.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) today said that at approximately 23:09hrs last night, the Demerara Berbice Interconnected System experienced a shutdown as a result of a faulty connection or “Pot Head” that links the 69KV submarine cable to the overhead transmission lines at Kingston.

(Trinidad Guardian) Five managers of the Human Resources Department at State-owned Petrotrin were suspended yesterday, following the conclusion of a four-year audit into a recruitment exercise.

Two men were yesterday charged with the murder of Mohamed Abdool Shameer, who was killed in a boat collision and then buried in a shallow grave more than 60 miles away.

Uttanpad Sewnarine, 39, the man accused of stabbing the mother of his child upwards of ten times in front of her Kitty home, was yesterday charged with attempted murder.

Sophia residents yesterday decided that they had had enough and blocked sections of Dennis Street to protest dust pollution in the area caused by incomplete works on the road.