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-fire service took around eight minutes to arriveOfficer-in-Charge of the Georgetown Prison, Superintendent Kevin Pilgrim yesterday said that using the adjoining dorm to fight the deadly fire in the Capital A Division, where 17 inmates died last month, would have required sending his officers into a “fatal funnel.”

The waitress who was stabbed by her common-law husband on Wednesday evening is currently in stable condition.

A carpenter was on Tuesday remanded to prison after being charged with having an unlicensed gun and ammunition.

The sister of Daymeion Millington, one of the five men on trial for the robbery of Justice Nicola Pierre, yesterday testified that her brother was at home on the night of the attack but she never informed police because she did not like the “environment” at the police station.

The police have been granted court approval to further detain the five persons who are currently in custody over the killings of Mohamed and Jamilla Munir.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s central bank was vulnerable to hackers because it did not have a firewall and used second-hand, $10 switches to network computers connected to the SWIFT global payment network, an investigator into one of the world’s biggest cyber heists said.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela will begin cutting electricity supplies amid a prolonged drought that has limited power generation, the electricity minister said yesterday, an unpopular measure for a population already struggling to obtain food and medicine.

Anthony Seals, the driver for Speaker of the National Assembly Barton Scotland, recently had his left arm amputated following an accident at Chateau Margot, on the East Coast of Demerara.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping has been appointed commander-in-chief of a new joint command headquarters for China’s military, state media said, part of an on-going reform programme to modernise the world’s largest armed forces.

(Reuters) – SunEdison Inc, once the fastest-growing U.S. renewable energy company, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday after a short-lived but aggressive binge of debt-fueled acquisitions proved unsustainable.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama made an impassioned appeal on Friday for Britain to remain in the European Union, saying membership had magnified Britain’s place in the world and made the bloc stronger and more outward looking.

NEW YORK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Nations on the verge of eliminating malaria risk falling short of their goal, just as it lies within reach, due to funding being shifted elsewhere, researchers said yesterday.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – An international arbitration center has ordered Venezuela to pay British cattle company Vestey Group nearly $100 million for the nationalization of cattle ranches, pilling fresh pressure on the cash-strapped leftist government.

(Reuters) – Prince, the innovative U.S. music superstar whose songwriting and eccentric stage presence electrified fans around the world with hits including “Purple Rain” and “When Doves Cry,” died today in Minnesota.

At approximately 13:09 hrs today, the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) says its Drug Enforcement and Goods Examination Units along with the Port Control Unit (PCU) were in the process of examining a consignment of 5/8 inches of plywood destined for Florida in the United States of America when upon closer examination, anomalies were detected within the consignment.

Former President Donald Ramotar today rebuffed claims by the APNU+AFC administration yesterday that US$5m in outstanding payments from a Chinese company for shares in GTT had been paid over prior to the May 11th general elections.

(Trinidad Guardian) “A barrel of peppers is worth more than a barrel of oil in T&T.

Government has obtained documents which show that the US$5M thought to be outstanding from the sale of GT&T shares was collected prior to President David Granger taking office and efforts are underway to detect the money trail, Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman says.

According to Joint Services attorney Selwyn Pieters, it was not Deputy Director Gladwin Samuels who ordered the door to Capital A closed on March 3 when a fire killed 17 prisoners, but a subordinate officer, who gave the instruction after prisoners began rioting.

At the height of proceedings yesterday, President of the Guyana Bar Association Christopher Ram withdrew the group’s participation from the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the prison unrest after declaring that he had “had enough” with how the proceedings were being run.