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WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – A bill legalizing medically-assisted suicide in Canada strikes the right balance between defending fundamental freedoms and protecting against abuses, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said yesterday, predicting confusion if it is not approved.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will undergo open heart surgery in London on Tuesday, his family and office said, in what will be his second cardiac operation in five years.

Minister within the Ministry of Public Health Dr Karen Cummings is advocating embracing the use of technology in the public health sector as a means of improving services.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet voluntarily testified earlier this week with the national prosecutor’s office as part of a probe into alleged tax crimes by her daughter-in-law Natalia Compagnon, the government said late on Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) – A blunder by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has led to the freeing of a man accused of being a member of the gang allegedly responsible for the assassination of former Independent senator Dana Seetahal, SC.

The introduction of a tax rebate system may be an option exercised by government in its quest to ensure that the public fully benefits from the removal of some taxes, including VAT, on some consumer goods, Minister of Finance Winston Jordan said Monday.

By Matthew Wilson It was in March 1999, only a few months after I had joined the Barbados Foreign Service, that I took my first professional trip abroad.

The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) today said that one of the two base load generators at Anna Regina, Essequibo Coast requires immediate remedial work which will result in load shedding.

The Ministry of the Presidency today said that General Secretary of the union, NAACIE, Kenneth Joseph was accidentally left off the list of national awardees which was issued on Wednesday.

The police say that investigations are being conducted into a report that about 2300h.

About 2245h. last night, the police say that waitress Onica Luke, 16 years, of Vryheid’s Lust, ECD, was working at the Lucky Star Chinese Restaurant at Better Hope, ECD, when a man entered and ordered a meal.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) today rejected a call for the Rio Olympic Games to be moved or postponed due to the threat posed by large outbreak of Zika virus in Brazil.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has announced that it will begin seizing properties for which owners owe millions of dollars in rates.

A new book chronicling the country’s achievements and challenges since independence was gained 50 years ago, particularly the ongoing territorial controversy with Venezuela, was launched last evening.

The United States is pushing ahead with a multipronged approach to fight the drug trade, including targeting y youth and preparing those in supply and transshipment countries such as Guyana to be gainfully employed, while it works on reducing demand in the United States.

Two drivers were yesterday charged with causing the death of Roxanne Mitchell, the woman who was killed early on Thurs-day morning after their minibuses collided near the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DBH).

A little over two weeks since he was found guilty of murdering nine-year Sade Stoby at Mocha, East Bank Demerara, Charles Cush was on Tuesday sentenced to imprisonment at the court’s pleasure.

A Sophia man was yesterday arraigned for the murder of his father, whom he allegedly fatally beat while under the influence of alcohol.

Fifty years after being witness to the auspicious moment when the Union Jack was lowered and replaced with the Golden Arrowhead, British soldier Edward John Constant returned to Guyana to join in the celebration of the country’s independence anniversary.

Special prosecutor Nigel Hughes yesterday told a court that he has supplied enough evidence to convict the five accused in the robbery and wounding of land court judge Nicola Pierre and her husband, Mohammed Chan.