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Members of the outgoing Mayor and City Council (M&CC) said their farewells yesterday during their final statutory meeting as local government elections will be held on Friday.

Two sisters from the Dominican Republic have been fined by a city magistrate for overstaying in Guyana.

Region Nine Chairman Brian Allicock yesterday accused the Regional Executive Officer (REO) Carl Parker of overstepping his mandate in the administration of the region.

A labourer was yesterday sentenced to do four months community service for stealing his boss’s money.

A University of Guyana student was placed on $75,000 bail when he appeared yesterday before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan on a charge of unlawful and malicious wounding.

HAMILTON, Bermuda (Jamaica Observer) — Members of Parliament in Bermuda were yesterday morning locked out of the House of Assembly as the protest against the Pathways to Status initiative stepped up a gear.

With more than 4,000 acres of rice already dead in the Mahaicony and Mahaica areas and the crop cycle in the harvesting stage, the Mahaica-Mahaicony-Abary Agriculture Development Authority (MMA-ADA) has decided to cease the pumping of water into the system.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Any decision to arrest Brazil’s former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will be made by Federal Judge Sergio Moro, who oversees a sweeping investigation into kickbacks at state-run oil firm Petrobras and approved the detention of dozens of senior executives, a judge in Sao Paulo ruled yesterday.

MOSCOW/GENEVA (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin announced out of the blue yesterday that “the main part” of Russian armed forces in Syria would start to withdraw, telling his diplomats to step up the push for peace as UN-mediated talks resumed on ending the five-year-old war.

MOIN, Macedonia (Reuters) – Hundreds of migrants marched out of a Greek transit camp, hiked for hours along muddy paths and forded a rain-swollen river to get around a border fence and cross into Macedonia, where they were detained yesterday, authorities said.

A 34-year-old taxi driver, who was charged on December 21 with fraudulent conversion, was on Friday found guilty by Magistrate Judy Latchman.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentine prosecutors are probing close to 100 companies, among them Brazilian firms, in an investigation into the suspected payment of bribes to government officials, a source with direct knowledge of the investigation said.

(Trinidad Express) – Toilet paper and fast food are being traded for guns between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela, Asst Commissioner of Police Surajdeen Persad has said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A suspended deputy United Nations ambassador from the Dominican Republic accused of participating in a scheme to bribe a former UN General Assembly president is expected to plead guilty tomorrow, according to a court filing.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama, in an interview that aired yesterday, voiced concern about the struggling Venezuelan economy and said he did not want to see the country fail despite the tense relations between Washington and Caracas.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – The government and the opposition have pledged to take a bipartisan approach to deal with the country’s crime situation.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua,CMC – Leeward Islands Hurricanes drew with Guyana Jaguars on the final day of their ninth round game in the Regional four-day championship at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground here today.

The police say they are investigating the murder of farmer Anthony Breedy, 60 years, of Hill Foot, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, whose body was found in the lower flat of his home about 1100h.

President David Granger has extended condolences to Leader of the Opposition, former President, Dr.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – CARICOM is actively pursuing legal advice in its ongoing battle with the West Indies Cricket Board, as it ups the ante in its quest to have the controversial recommendations of its Governance Review report implemented.