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The Route 42 minibus passenger found with an unlicensed pistol and ammunition on Monday, in the vicinity of the Providence Public Road, was denied bail yesterday after he was charged with the offence.

There was a commotion in the courtroom of Justice Navindra Singh yesterday afternoon, when a prosecution witness suffered a seizure during the course of giving evidence in the case of murdered seaman, Antonio Isles.

An Alberttown youth accused of cocaine trafficking was yesterday granted $50,000 bail by a city court.

Geeta Boodhoo, 32, who was unable to walk after injuring her knee in an accident at Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara on May 16, has undergone surgery successfully and is currently undergoing therapy.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka acknowledged yesterday for the first time that some 65,000 people were missing from its 26-year-long war with Tamil Tiger rebels and a separate Marxist insurrection.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a closer security relationship between his country and the United States yesterday, in an address to the U.S.

BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Every day 33 people become entrapped in sex trafficking rings in Guatemala, including a “shocking” proportion of children, some of them sold into the sex trade by their mothers, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said.

KOLKATA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Indian police have charged the suspected ringleader of an organ trafficking network accused of luring poor people to one of Delhi’s top hospitals to have their kidneys removed and sold, a police official said yesterday.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – He is a symbol of Brazil’s biggest corruption investigation – a ballyhooed battle against impunity for powerful politicians and businessmen.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Dozens of people were wounded in Papua New Guinea yesterday after police opened fire on a student demonstration in the capital and riots erupted across the country, but officials said earlier reports of up to four dead were incorrect.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Haiti’s decision to scrap the results of a disputed first-round presidential vote will prolong an already delayed process at a time the country needs a democratically elected leader, the State Department said yesterday.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Supreme Court yesterday banned media from publishing videos of lynchings, saying they create “anxiety and uncertainty” in a country ravaged by violent crime and an economic crisis.

AIROBI, (Reuters) – A nationwide blackout that hit Kenya on Tuesday was caused by a monkey tripping a transformer at a hydropower plant, leading to the loss of more than 180 megawatts from the grid, power producer Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) said.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Former investment banker Pedro Pablo Kuczynski inched closer to winning Peru’s presidency three days after Sunday’s election, holding on to a slim but steady lead over rival Keiko Fujimori with just 1 percent of votes left to tally.

Courtesy call by envoy to South Africa: President David Granger was on Tuesday paid a courtesy call by Ambassador Designate to South Africa, Dr.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana Amazon Warriors head coach, Roger Harper, believes crowd support will be key to his side’s success in the Caribbean Premier League starting later this month.

At about 0210h. today, the police say that ranks of the Police Narcotics Branch intercepted and seized six kilograms and forty four grams of cocaine in a cargo shipment of frozen fish at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.

State broadcaster NCN is expected to restart the process of collecting millions owed to it by advertisers this week and after officials initially refused to speak on the matter, the network yesterday defended the $2.5 million debt settlement reached with Merundoi Inc.

Six persons including the owner of a car that was impounded on Saturday evening, less than an hour after a grenade was lobbed near the vehicle of Kaieteur News publisher Glenn Lall, were arrested yesterday morning as the probe into the matter continues.

The Georgetown Mayor and City Council will be discussing with members of the private sector a $25,000 container tax which the council says has already been implemented.