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Red Thread Coordinator Karen de Souza is not surprised that alleged child molester Winston Harding enjoys the support of the residents of his constituency.

Keith Ferrier, one of the accused in the 2009 arson of the Ministry of Health building at Brickdam, was denied bail after making a new application yesterday.

A date was yesterday set for the start of the trial of Police Constable Tito Benons who was allegedly found recently with an unlicensed pistol and 15 rounds of ammunition.

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) has extended the date for investment proposals from the public.

An inquiry is to be conducted into the education system and members of the public are being invited to submit memoranda.

An East Ruimveldt man, who police say had an unlicensed gun with matching rounds that he used to rob a woman, was yesterday sentenced for the offences.

A young Agricola mother was given a second chance after a man who accused her of robbing him decided to drop the complaint.

Sterling Products Limited (SPL) registered a profit of $173 million for 2015, down 16.6% on the previous year.

A Nigerian national was yesterday given 24 hours to leave the country after he was reprimanded for illegally entering from Brazil.

    A plumber was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with robbing a driver who was held up by traffic.

A report regarding the death of 10-year-old Ishmael Raghubir carried in yesterday’s edition of the Stabroek News under the title ‘La Grange boy killed by reversing car’ had erroneously stated that the accident occurred in front of the boy’s Independence Street home.

LONDON/PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Governments across the world began investigating possible financial wrongdoing by the rich and powerful yesterday after a leak of four decades of documents from a Panamanian law firm that specialised in setting up offshore companies.

As rice farmers all over the country harvest their crops, the farmers in the Mahaica and Mahaicony areas are patiently waiting to find out if they will receive assistance for the next crop after the losses they suffered due to the punishing El Nino drought.

STOCKHOLM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – World military spending rose 1 per cent in 2015, the first annual increase in four years, a Stockholm think tank said today as it estimated 10 per cent of this could cover the costs of global goals aiming to end poverty and hunger in 15 years.

Guyana yesterday welcomed its third cruise visit as patrons of the Serenissima spent the day visiting the Kaieteur Falls and touring the city.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark said yesterday she would campaign to be the next UN secretary-general, pledging to improve transparency and touting her leadership experience in a bid to become the first woman to head the world body.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – With neither side commanding enough firm support in the battle to impeach Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, the outcome of a crucial vote in Congress this month may boil down to a handful of no-shows and abstentions.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Colombian who pleaded guilty to US narcotics charges stemming from a probe that began with him trying to help a paramilitary group get uranium for a “dirty bomb” to attack the US embassy in Bogota was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) – Gunbattles shook the capital of Congo Republic yesterday, shattering a relative calm that had followed President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s re-election in a disputed vote last month.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the unprecedented accomplishments of West Indies cricket teams in capturing three separate titles this year should be used as a source of motivation for the region.