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A mason who allegedly broke into a home and stole $62,000 in cash and items, was granted $40,000 bail last week, when he appeared at the George-town Magistrates’ Courts.

Tambico McKenzie, one of the men who was allegedly run over by a woman as he fled after allegedly robbing her, testified on Monday that he had no part in the crime.

The police will today be seeking legal advice on a charge against Desmond Gordon, who allegedly chopped his common-law wife, Bhagmattie Etwaroo, to death on Monday evening.

A man who was found by the police pushing a motorcycle that he allegedly stole was granted bail when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan last week.

Attorneys representing Keisha Chase, who is charged with causing the death of a pedestrian by dangerous driving, told a city court on Monday that they are seeking to have the charge dismissed.

A carpenter was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail after he admitted to stealing a quantity of gold jewellery while on hire for a plumbing job.

Darren Eddie, a carpenter who was charged last month with having an unlicensed gun and ammunition, has been released on bail by the High Court.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton in the West Virginia primary yesterday, slowing her march toward the party’s nomination.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States signaled yesterday it will work with the apparent victor of the Philippines presidential election, Rodrigo Duterte, despite allegations of human rights abuses in the city he has led for over two decades.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – A German court yesterday rejected a request by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan for a preliminary injunction preventing the head of German publisher Axel Springer repeating a derogatory term.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on camera telling Queen Elizabeth yesterday that leaders of some “fantastically corrupt” countries, including Nigeria and Afghanistan, were due to attend his anti-corruption summit.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff took her battle to survive impeachment to the Supreme Court yesterday, in a last-ditch attempt to stay in office a day before the Senate will likely vote to try her for breaking budget laws.

BANGKOK, (Reuters) – A university in Thailand has caught a group of students using smart watches and cameras concealed in glasses to cheat during entrance exams, forcing the cancellation of the tests for others.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The CONCACAF confederation which runs soccer in North and Central America and the Caribbean has chosen Soccer United Marketing (SUM) to sell its sponsorship rights for five years, it said today.

Businessman Edris Dookie today said he has no relationship with Panama-based bank Mossack Fonseca which has been the subject of international scrutiny after a large amount of its data was leaked to a German newspaper.

(Trinidad Guardian) Over a decade of physical and verbal confrontations between father and son came to an end on Sunday night when Sham Siewnarine was stabbed to death, as his mother told T&T Guardian, by his father.

Hundreds of employees of the Gafoor’s Houston Complex and associated businesses housed there face uncertainty after a massive fire destroyed several sections of the multi-billion dollar complex yesterday afternoon, leaving behind billions of dollars in damage.

The Panama Papers affair has widened, with a huge database of documents relating to more than 200,000 offshore accounts posted online and three persons with Guyanese connections have been listed.

Years of abuse ended tragically yesterday when a mother of seven was murdered by her reputed husband, who chopped her neck after having brutally beaten her.

Amidst controversy, the Ogle International Airport was last evening renamed the Eugene F Correia International Airport and Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson revealed that the concerns raised by those opposed to the renaming are among issues to be addressed by a review of the airport’s operations being undertaken by an independent legal firm.