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(Trinidad Guardian) One man was killed and another critically injured in a shooting incident in San Fernando yesterday.

The government yesterday confirmed weekly meetings between Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and state media heads but said no complaint of intimidation or interference has been made by the board or management of any state media to his office.

A Friendship man, who had pleaded guilty to trafficking cocaine to the US in 2014, was shot dead with his own illegal weapon on Sunday night after he and an accomplice broke into the home of a Yarrowkabra, Linden-Soesdyke Highway shopkeeper and attempted to rob him.

The taxi driver, whose car was used to transport murdered Sophia woman, Simone Hackett, was yesterday charged with her murder and remanded to prison.

One man is dead and three others critically injured while a fifth escaped with minor injuries when the vehicle they were in turned turtle at Bushy Park, East Bank Essequibo around 2 am yesterday.

A 50-year-old man was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with raping a 12-year-old girl.

Parents and residents yesterday forced the closure of the Mocha Arcadia Nursery School, following a protest over the appalling conditions their children are enduring and the continuing neglect by authorities.

Director of Prisons Carl Graham yesterday said fire prevention inspections are done regularly at the Camp Street jail but he was unable to confirm if any were done for the year.

The retrial of the two men charged with the 2007 murder of nine-year-old Sade Stoby began yesterday before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow with an emotional testimony from the dead child’s mother Sharon Berry.

Thieves broke into the  Kinderen Nursery School, for the third time in one year, and carted off a music system valued $87,000 even while a security guard was on duty.

More than eight years after Ruby businessman Habiboodean from injuries he sustained when he was severely beaten at his home and two persons including his daughter were charged with the crime and subsequently freed, another individual yesterday confessed to the police that he was the hit-man.

A man who claimed that he was just a ‘Good Samaritan’ was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge that he had just over three pounds of cannabis in his possession.

The body of a 52-year-old man was discovered at the Kitty seawall on Sunday afternoon in the vicinity of Celina’s Resort and an autopsy performed yesterday revealed that he died as a result of drowning.

HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) – President Barack Obama announced yesterday the biggest expansion of US ground troops in Syria since its civil war began, but the move was unlikely to mollify Arab allies angry over Washington’s cautious approach to the conflict.

A Kitty resident was shot to his right hand yesterday morning in what is suspected to be an attempted execution.

DHAKA (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist militants hacked to death a leading Bangladeshi gay rights activist employed by the US embassy and a friend in an apartment in Bangladesh’s capital yesterday, police said.

A miner was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge that he had just over three pounds of cannabis in his possession.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Supreme Court yesterday shot down one of the opposition’s main tactics to oust socialist leader Nicolas Maduro with a ruling that any constitutional amendment to reduce the presidential term could not be retroactive.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Desperately seeking an antidote to a rapidly aging population, Japanese policymakers are exploring ways to bring in more foreign workers without calling it an “immigration policy”.

One of the two prisoners who were hospitalised after an altercation at the Camp Street jail on Sunday evening remains admitted at the Georgetown Public Hospital in stable condition.