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A Region One woman was yesterday remanded to prison after she was charged with attempting to murder her common-law husband.

Guyana and the European Union (EU) held a fourth negotiating session on the EU’s Forest Law and Enforcement Governance and Trade Action Plan Voluntary Partnership Agreement (FLEGT-VPA) earlier this month.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition-controlled Congress late on Tuesday approved an amnesty law to free jailed opposition activists and end legal proceedings against others, a measure President Nicolas Maduro promised to veto.

(Reuters) – No need for stocking masks and sawn-off shotguns. The unprecedented heist of $81 million from the U.S.

A clothes vendor was remanded to prison after he was accused of using a cutlass to rob Colrin Mercurius of two gold chains.

A Kitty clothes vendor was yesterday remanded to prison after he appeared before a city court on a drug trafficking charge.

PORT TALBOT, Wales/LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain battled to save its steel industry yesterday after India’s Tata Steel put its British operations up for sale, leaving thousands of jobs at risk as a result of cheap Chinese imports.

BOGOTA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The scale of sex trafficking around illegal gold mines in parts of Latin America is “staggering,” and thousands of people working there are prey to labour exploitation by organised crime groups, a think-tank said yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) Brazilian beer giant AmBev has started reshaping Banks Holdings Limited (BHL) in its own image, cutting three members of its top executive management team in the process.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s finance minister, ending a month-long standoff, has answered police questions about a spy unit formed by its tax collection agency, the latest chapter in what is seen as a proxy war between President Jacob Zuma and his detractors.

(Jamaica Observer)  The Government is to operate the Long Pond Sugar Factory in Trelawny for three months to save cane produced in the parish for this year’s crop.

NAYPYITAW/YANGON,  (Reuters) – Members of Aung San Suu Kyi’s victorious National League for Democracy (NLD) were in tears day as Myanmar swore in its first president with no military ties in more than half a century.

The Guyana Prisons Service will soon have a Special Response Team to deal with disturbances like the one that led to 17 deaths at the Camp Street penitentiary on March 3rd.

Kevon Payne, a 22-year-old member of the Guyana Coast Guard was last night gunned down not far from his Sussex Street home.

Following a meeting yesterday between President David Granger and Alliance For Change (AFC) Leader Khemraj Ramjattan, proposals were crafted to deal with a complaint by the AFC that it has been “shortchanged” in allocation of seats won by the governing APNU+AFC coalition at the recent local government polls.

Police Constables Devin Singh and Roselle Tilbury-Douglas, who were accused of the brutal assault on detainee Colwyn Harding, who alleged that he was sodomised with a baton during his arrest in 2013, were yesterday cleared of all charges.

The new Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Georgetown are to be elected on Friday by the new 30-member city council.

A visiting United Kingdom naval team says it plans to assist Guyana in making the army’s flagship, the GDFS Essequibo, seaworthy again and to establish new links between the Royal Navy and the military here.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport Corporation (CJIAC) has introduced a system which is designed to provide a hassle-free experience for arriving passengers at Timehri.

The Guyana National Printers Limited (GNPL) has been making losses and needs to be retooled in order to be competitive, according to a forensic audit done into the company.