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SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) is already working on policies including sweeping welfare cuts should their coalition partner President Dilma Rousseff be impeached and it formed the new government, a newspaper said yesterday.

During yesterday, the police say that ranks of a police traffic patrol stopped a group of five men who were on three CG motor cycles at Norton Street and Louisa Row, Georgetown.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) today said that one of its employees, Romesh Lalaram died yesterday after being attacked by bees in the Old Bath Field.

(Reuters) – West Indies will face India or Australia in the World Twenty20 last four after losing to Afghanistan by six runs in their final Super 10 stage match on today, while England will play New Zealand in the other semi-final.

(Trinidad Guardian) Official minutes from an executive meeting which took place at the Prison’s Administration Building, Phillip Street, Port-of-Spain, on January 27, 2015, has revealed that prisons officials were aware of plans for a jail break by inmates at the Port-of-Spain prison.

The fatal March 3, Camp Street prison unrest could have been avoided, according to retired judge Cecil Kennard, who says many of the recommendations made following the Com-mission of Inquiry (CoI) that he led into the 2002 prison jailbreak had addressed some of the contributing factors.

(Part 1) “Everyone knows about Buxton, yet few people know Buxton,” this was the lament of the former village councillor Owen McGarrell when he spoke with the World Beyond Georgetown.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has rescinded a December 16, 1992 agreement for the sale of 73/83 Brickdam which was made in a hospital in Canada between the elderly owner, Hermelita Feinmesser and a friend, Janette Narine.

A dredge owner is dead after he was accidentally shot by his employee, an ex-policeman, who also shot himself, while examining a gun he found at King Buoy Hole, Mazaruni on Thursday.

A woman is accusing the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) of negligence after her recent delivery left her unable to walk.

There is an abundance of skills in the women’s section of the New Amsterdam Prison, which local fashion designer and businesswoman Sonia Noel sees as a potential commercial hub that could allow inmates to earn some money.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian prosecutors charged three men yesterday with terrorist offences over the Brussels bomb attacks and authorities called off a planned ‘march against fear’ in the jittery capital to relieve pressure on an over-taxed police force.

Michael April, an Enterprise village vendor, is now in critical condition after he was stabbed to the neck during an altercation.

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s opposition Nationalist Party picked as its new leader a woman it had ditched as its presidential candidate weeks before January’s election after a wave of criticism of her campaign.

A security guard is currently in police custody after he wounded an elderly farmer who allegedly attacked him with a knife while he was on duty Friday evening.

SANAA (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Yemenis took to the streets of the capital Sanaa yesterday to mark the first anniversary of the war between a coalition led by Saudi Arabia against Iran-allied fighters who had overthrown the government.

Citizens of Georgetown will soon be able to pay their rates online when the Mayor and City Council launches its new Revenue Collection and Financial Management System (RCFMS).

CARACAS (Reuters) – Just under two-thirds of Venezuelans think Nicolas Maduro’s presidency should end this year as the opposition pushes to oust him amid a grueling economic crisis, a survey by a leading pollster said.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Women’s Association for Sustainable Development (WASD) in collaboration with the Sonia Noel Foundation for Creative Arts will host two women empowerment events.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – A Venezuelan man who was caught trying to leave the island with more than US$83,000 or just over J$10 million has pleaded guilty to a number of criminal charges.