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The government yesterday ordered an independent inquiry into the latest death from a mining cave-in at Konawak, Mahdia on March 14.

At tomorrow’s Local Government Elections, the residents of Linden have a variety of choices on both sections of the ballot.

  Chairman of the Farm/ Hydronie Neighbourhood Democratic Council, Milton Dookie is contesting the Local Government Elections independently against representatives from the two main political groups in the First-Past-the-Post component.

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Protests erupted in several Brazilian cities yesterday after President Dilma Rousseff named her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva chief of staff and a taped conversation fed opposition claims the move was meant to shield Lula from prosecution.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama selected Merrick Garland for the U.S.

Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the fatal March 3, prison unrest Justice James Patterson yesterday adjourned for five days, a ruling on 28 applications made to the CoI for the divulging of information by the Guyana Prison Service.

The body of an unidentified man was found at the Botanical Gardens yesterday afternoon and it is suspected that he may have committed suicide.

PALM BEACH, Fla., (Reuters) – U.S. Republican front-runner Donald Trump warned yesterday of riots if he is denied the party’s presidential nomination and pulled the plug on a scheduled debate among candidates, raising the temperature even more in a heated White House race.

First Lady, Sandra Granger and Minister of Social Cohesion, Amna Ally, on Wednesday presented 30 more bicycles and over 200 pairs of shoes to the students of the St.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Seventeen miners murdered near a gold deposit were mainly shot in the head, and four suspects have been arrested so far in a case that has shocked Venezuela, the chief state prosecutor said yesterday.

A teenager was yesterday released on $175,000 bail after denying that he beat up and robbed a man of his bike and other items.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s government was rocked yesterday by suggestions that a wealthy family with close ties to President Jacob Zuma may have been behind his decision to sack the country’s respected finance minister Nhlanhla Nene in December.

A Callender Street, Albouystown resident was yesterday refused bail on a charge of possession of an unlicensed firearm when he appeared before a city court.

The suspect held on Tuesday in connection with the murder of farmer Anthony Breedy has confessed to the crime and his girlfriend was yesterday arrested after she was found in possession of a cellphone and several appliances belonging to the dead man.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A suspended deputy United Nations ambassador from the Dominican Republic pleaded guilty yesterday to charges that he participated in a scheme to bribe a former U.N.

APNU this afternoon withdrew its support from one of the APNU+AFC candidates, Winston Harding who has faced child molestation accusations.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister, Dr Keith Rowley still wishes the Indian Cricket Board’s (BCCI) US$42 million dollar claim for damages had resulted in the bankruptcy of the West Indies Cricket Board.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Chris Gayle smashed the first hundred of the sixth World Twenty20 to underline his reputation as cricket’s most destructive batsman and powered West Indies to a six-wicket win over England in their Super 10 match today.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Central couple who were reported missing Sunday were found murdered, hours apart, in two different police divisions on Monday.

Inmate Michael Lewis yesterday said prison officials had ample opportunity to rescue prisoners from the March 3rd fatal fire, in which 17 of his fellow inmates died.