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CARACAS, (Reuters) – When Venezuelan customs worker Jose Antonio Arriaga signed a petition seeking a recall referendum against President Nicolas Maduro, he suspected it could cost him his job.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s army will up their fight against dissident FARC rebels and crime gangs across the nation even after a peace accord is signed with the Marxist group, the head of the army said, in a bid to prevent other armed groups and drug traffickers from taking over rebel territory.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – FBI Director James Comey told U.S. lawmakers yesterday that FBI employees who mishandled classified material in the way Hillary Clinton did as secretary of state could be subject to dismissal or loss of security clearance.

LONDON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The Brazilian government has strongly criticized a call by two U.S.

A Kitty youth was yesterday charged in a city court with the gun-point robbery of one of his neighbours.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Interior minister Theresa May and eurosceptic rival Andrea Leadsom emerged yesterday as the two candidates who will battle to become Britain’s next prime minister and lead the country out of the European Union.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC – Caribbean Premier League organisers today reiterated their commitment to stamping out corruption in the game after banning an Indian national from attending the competition for live betting during a game at Warner Park.

A cabinet sub-committee has been established to examine the audit reports that were commissioned by the APNU+AFC Government for criminal and negligent conduct, GINA said today.

(Trinidad Guardian) The decomposing bodies of Anika Gabriel and her baby were found on a bed at their South Oropouche home by the baby’s father yesterday morning. Three

A decision by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to apply previously unimplemented import taxes on a range of hardware and other inputs has left the manufacturing sector warning of dire consequences and Opposi-tion Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday called for a reversal of the decision.

CARICOM Heads have agreed that before year end an arrest warrant treaty will take effect as part of a wider mission to improve cooperation among  law enforcement authorities and to boost security in the region.

While the Ministry of Social Protection yesterday said that it holds firm to the commitment that Guyanese living overseas will not benefit from an old age pension here, the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) says the decision clashes with the constitution.

The Ministry of Public Health has launched an investigation into the death of woman at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre on Tuesday, following a suspected miscarriage the previous week.

A Guyana Police Force corporal was yesterday placed on $75,000 bail after he was charged with obtaining gifts of gold in exchange for obstructing investigations into a marijuana matter.

Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Dr Keith Rowley yesterday warned against overplaying small immigration issues and added that Caricom heads had agreed that in the area of free movement of nationals, the issue of security should remain with the receiving country.

The trial of Dr Jennifer Westford, former minister in the PPP/C administration, and her former aide Margaret Cummings, into the alleged theft of over $600 million from the government, which was set for commencement yesterday, was put off owing to the misfiling of statements.

The National Blood Trans-fusion Service (NBTS) yesterday said that it is in dire need of blood to satisfy the ever growing demand.

A little more than two weeks after the body of pork knocker, Shawn McDonald was discovered in a container of his camp at Kurupung, Region Seven, three men accused of killing him were charged and remanded to prison last week.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA), the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) and the Region Three Administration will be undertaking  drainage improvements  in Lust-en-Rust and parts of Parfait Harmonie, West Bank Demerara.

A 26-year-old pregnant woman was yesterday sentenced to three years in prison and fined nearly $2 million after being found with cocaine for the purpose of trafficking at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.