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A national consultation on the safety of workers in the manufacturing sector is scheduled to end today with new recommendations.

Onika Luke, the waitress who was shot in her chin during a robbery at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara last month, is still waiting to undergo surgery to remove the bullet.

The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) will be creating emergency response systems in mining communities, GINA said.

The Government’s annual School Uniform Voucher distribution has begun, according to the Ministry of Education.

The police last evening confirmed that two suspects have been arrested and a car impounded, in relation to the robbery committed on Sunday at the Green Ice Taxi Service during which 15-year-old Jahmaul Lewis was shot.

The New Era Book & Gift Shop is reopening at The Court Yard Mall – 76 Robb Street, Lacytown.

The 12th Berbice Exposition and Trade Fair was launched on Friday even as a top Region Six official observed that the economic situation in the region has stagnated or has been declining.

A Mon Repos man was on Tuesday remanded to prison after being charged with stealing $30,000 from a fellow villager who refused to give him $500.

The police have released the driver who was allegedly involved in the accident that claimed the life of Triumph handyman Seenauth Persaud, even as investigations into the matter continue.

A Wismar man, charged with break and enter and larceny was on Tuesday remanded to prison when he appeared before Magistrate Clive Nurse at the Linden Magistrate’s Court.

A man who pleaded guilty yesterday to falsifying documents for a passport application was fined $100,000 with the alternative of eight months in prison, when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britons will decide the future of their country and Europe today in a vote on European Union membership after a bitter campaign that appeared to divide the nation down the middle.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s political opposition said yesterday it had collected the required number of valid signatures to begin a recall referendum against President Nicolas Maduro, amid the country’s economic crisis.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Democrats staged a “sit-in” on the floor of the U.S.

BOGOTA/HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Colombia’s government and leftist FARC rebels said yesterday they had reached agreement on a definitive ceasefire that would end hostilities in the longest-running conflict in the Western Hemisphere.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – John Ashe, a former United Nations General Assembly president accused by U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – John Ashe, a former United Nations General Assembly president accused by U.S.

The private criminal charges filed against Justice Navindra Singh over an alleged altercation with a motorist, were withdrawn today.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) says it garnered over half a billion dollars from its 50/50 Jubilee payment plan for house lots.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two former soldiers appeared in court yesterday charged with the murder of a Diego Martin man who was shot and left for dead in a forested area in Chaguaramas earlier this month.